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The Who And The What | White Lies, S1E2
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55:50Now PlayingIn the second episode of White Lies, we unravel the story of the events that happened after the Rev. James Reeb's death: the arrest of three men and the murder trial that followed. In the absence of an official trial transcript, we reconstruct the December 1965 trial using firsthand accounts, news reports and other documents — and we track down the last two living jurors.
We explore what passed for justice in 1965 Alabama, including a prosecutor who openly told the press he had a weak case and a defense that claimed civil rights activists let Reeb die — or delivered the fatal blow themselves — because they needed a white martyr for their cause. We discover that after the not-guilty verdict was rendered, the myth of Reeb as a white martyr metastasized into a conspiracy theory that still lives today.
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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