Hey, this is Jeremy Schwartz, the voice of Edwin Stanton, and I am just dropping in to tell you about my newest podcast, American Criminal.

I loved my role in 1865, so when our producer, Lindsay Graham, called me up to pitch this project, I immediately said yes.

This is a different kind of show.

To begin with, American Criminal isn't an audio drama.

It's all true stories told by me.

And instead of telling you about one slice of American history,

I'm covering all different kinds of periods,

from Prohibition, Chicago to 1980s, Las Vegas, Depression-era Memphis, all the way

up to 2010 Silicon Valley. The other big difference is that this is a crime show. We're telling

the real stories behind some of the most notorious, clever, and cruel criminals in our country's

history. But we're not salacious about it. This isn't just the headlines. We take the same criminals in our country's history. But we're not salacious about it.

This isn't just the headlines.

We take the same care in our research for American criminal as we did on 1865.

So we're looking at shocking, era-defining crimes through the lens of history.

We ask questions like, how was this person shaped by their context? How did the media

react to the story at the time? And how was society changed in the years since? In short,

I think you're going to love it. And if you don't believe me, give this episode to listen.

It's the first part in our series on the assassination of civil rights icon Medgar Evers,

the man who pulled the trigger and the fight to bring him to justice. Then you could find the rest of

the series, as well as every episode of American Criminal on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen to

podcasts.

This episode contains descriptions and details that some listeners might find disturbing.

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