Officials are quoted as explaining that since the brain of a ghoul has been activated by the radiation, the plan is, kill the brain and you kill the ghoul.
12 seconds sound clip from the Night of the Living Dead (1968) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:19:01 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- So now let's go to that filmed report.
- Want anything from the supply wagon, Kus?
- Uh, no, we're all right. Okay.
- Hey, put that thing all the way in the fire. We don't want it getting up again. All right. I gotcha.
- Chief McClelland, how is everything going?
- Ah, things aren't going too bad. Men are taking it pretty good.
- You want to get on the other side of the road over there.
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