A Dangerous Kind Of Self-Delusion | White Lies, S1E7
January 27, 2023
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as posted by the channelIn our final episode of White Lies, we contemplate James Reeb the man. Before the news of Reeb's death was broadcast across the country and cast him as a martyr, Reeb was a husband, father and trusted friend.
We hear Reeb's own voice, delivering his final sermon, and hear from his wife, Marie, and his children about the months before his murder, the days following the attack in Selma, Ala., and how his death altered their lives.
We also examine the legacy of the man who witnesses say delivered the fatal blow, Elmer Cook, through his descendants: his son, grandson and great-granddaughter, and explore how they reckon with their feelings of shame and their longing to atone for Cook's wrongs.
WHAT IS “WHITE LIES”?
In White Lies, co-hosts Andrew Beck Grace and Chip Brantley expose the lies that kept the murder from being solved and uncover a story about guilt, memory and justice that says as much about America today as it does about the past. In a place where lies and silence conspire against them, Brantley and Grace search Selma for living witnesses, guided by an unredacted copy of an old FBI file. They meet people who know the truth about the murder but have lied for decades — until now.
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