Pallbearers carry the casket of Jimmie Lee Jackson into a church in Marion, Ala., where a sign reads "Racism killed our brother."
White Lies
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Fred Vigeant
Pallbearers carry the casket of Jimmie Lee Jackson into a church in Marion, Ala., where a sign reads "Racism killed our brother."
WITF presents White Lies, a special seven-part radio series, which initially began from a groundbreaking investigative podcast.
The NPR’s Investigations Team tells the story of one of the most significant unsolved murders of the Civil Rights era. In 1965, Rev. James Reeb was murdered in Selma, Alabama. Three men were tried and acquitted, but no one was ever held to account.
Fifty years later, two journalists from Alabama return to the city where the murder took place, expose the lies that kept it from being solved, and uncover a story about guilt and memory that says as much about America today as it does about the past.
White Lies is hosted by Morning Edition’s Noel King and reported by Alabama journalists Andrew Beck Grace and Chip Brantley. The series dispels the myths and mistruths that have grown up around the story for the past five decades.
The series broadcasts on WITF Wednesdays at 2:00pm beginning October 16. Find more information…
A collection of interviews, photos, and music videos, featuring local musicians who have stopped by the WITF performance studio to share a little discussion and sound. Produced by WITF’s Joe Ulrich.
