ANNOUNCER: Bringing you the world for 20 years, this is CNN.</s>BOB FRANKEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, the Monica Lewinsky investigation was one of those stories where every day almost had some major figure testify. But few were more major than Linda Tripp because she was the one who had tape recorded the conversations in which Monica Lewinsky described her relationship with the president and had turned them over to the authorities, and had really become the reason that Ken Starr expanded his investigation into the Monica Lewinsky matter.</s>QUESTION: Are you ready for the day?</s>LINDA TRIPP: I am.</s>FRANKEN: Her daughter and son by her side, Linda Tripp, the woman who sparked the Monica Lewinsky investigation, was finally telling her version of what happened.</s>FRANKEN: At the end of her appearance before the grand jury, this highly controversy figure came out and talked to cameras and wanted to, in fact, quell the bitterness toward her that had so spread around the country.</s>TRIPP: I'm just like you. I'm an average American who found herself in a situation not of her own making.</s>FRANKEN: The Linda Tripp saga could possibly be over if Linda Tripp was facing charges in Maryland that she had violated the state's wiretap laws. And various judges' rulings ate away at the prosecution's case. And finally, very recently, in May, the prosecutors decided that they just didn't have enough to get a guilty plea, so they gave it up. Legally it's over for Linda Tripp, but this is going to resonate in her life for a long time.
CNN 20: Linda Tripp Testimony, June 30, 1998