In 1965, James Reeb was murdered in Selma, Ala. NPR’s Rachel Martin talks to Andrew Beck Grace and Chip Brantley, hosts of the new NPR podcast White Lies about what kept the murder from being solved.
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:
Imagine a street corner in a small city. It’s evening. The street lights have just come on. And three men have just finished dinner. Journalist Chip Brantley picks it up from there.
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CHIP BRANTLEY, BYLINE: This is 1965. These men are strangers here – Northern men in a segregated Southern city; white men standing in front of a black restaurant; three men and a decision to make. There would have been no way for them to know that what will happen next will change everything, that it will lead to the murder of one of these three men and radically alter the lives of the other two.
MARTIN: The murder of James Reeb – a white Unitarian minister – would lead to outrage across the country….
