Griffith pulled it off seamlessly: As you watch him, you understand how the smiling, aw-shucks, I'm-just-a-country-boy Lonesome Rhodes could cynically use the then-new medium of national television to become as powerful as the president, while privately holding his viewers in utter contempt.

CNN: Andy Griffith's crowning achievement

The 57-year-old said she saw the girl smiling at 18-week-old puppy Rocky, before two bigger Rottweilers - called Fat Boy and Pretty Girl - launched an attack, dragging the girl from her bike into the road and biting her repeatedly.

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