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🗓️ 30 October 2019
⏱️ 68 minutes
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0:00.0 | In 2018, I had the privilege of interviewing Yusuf Salam, well, now Dr. Yusuf Salam. |
0:07.7 | And Dr. Salam now serves, I love the way that sounds, on the board of the Innocence |
0:10.9 | Project with me. |
0:12.7 | He's a father of 10 children, extraordinary, and he is an accomplished and celebrated motivational |
0:19.4 | speaker, an author, and a tremendous advocate for criminal justice reform, most dramatically. |
0:28.2 | The story of Yusuf Salam and the four other wrongfully convicted boys, because they were |
0:34.5 | just children when they were teenagers, young teenagers, and they were wrongfully convicted. |
0:38.8 | Then known as the Central Park Five, now known as the Exonerated Five. |
0:43.0 | We're featured in the hit Netflix show, and the hit is not as strong enough for the Smash |
0:48.4 | Netflix show when they see us 16 Emmyward nominations, and it's become a cultural phenomenon. |
0:55.2 | It also has resulted in actual consequences for the people who wrongfully prosecuted and |
1:02.6 | persecuted Yusuf and the other kids. |
1:06.0 | Both prosecutors have faced some censure, not strong enough punishments in my view for |
1:11.6 | what they did, but it really is a full circle turnaround that couldn't possibly have been |
1:18.6 | imagined back when this terrible miscarriage of justice was happening. |
1:22.8 | To actually use Yusuf Salam's episode is one of my favorites, I'm excited for you to hear it. |
1:52.8 | Last season, millions tuned into the betrayal podcast to hear a shocking story of deception. |
2:08.0 | I'm Andrea Gunning, and now we're sharing an all-new story of betrayal. |
2:13.2 | Ashley Litten was helping her husband set up a business fanmail account when she discovered |
2:17.0 | a terrible secret. |
2:18.0 | I saw a hidden folder, and I opened it. |
2:22.1 | What the hell did I just see? |
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