341: The Mysterious Death of Zachary Smith Reynolds w/ Phil Archer

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Erik Rivenes

True Crime, History, Education

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Just after midnight on July 6, 1932, twenty-year-old Zachary Smith Reynolds, a renowned aviator and an heir to the R.J. Reynolds tobacco fortune, was shot in the family's summer home in what is now Winston-Salem, North Carolina. While some believed the moody young man had committed suicide, evidence suggested someone else had pulled the trigger, and eventually Reynolds' wife, Broadway actress Libby Holman, and his best friend, A.B. Walker, would be indicted for murder. I'm joined by Phil Archer, the Betsy Main Babcock Deputy Director at Reynolda House Museum of American Art. He helped create Reynolda's popular exhibition, called "Smith & Libby: Two Rings, Seven Months, One Bullet", which can now be experienced in a condensed form on the very porch where Smith died. More about the Reynolda Museum here: https://reynolda.org/ Watch the original exhibition trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bVYrVhMK7M&t=5s Libby Holman sings the traditional folk song "House of the Rising Sun": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4ZGrlO7JU4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.8	This is the overnight flight from London Heath Road to Beijing.
0:35.0	Flight time 11 hours
0:38.0	237 passengers on board
0:42.0	and one murderer. 37 passengers on board.
0:45.0	And one murderer. There's no escape.
0:47.0	At 35,000 feet, red eye. Stream now on ITX.
1:02.0	Hello all, this is Eric and welcome to another episode of the most notorious
1:06.5	podcast so a few quick words before we begin the interview that you're about
1:12.2	to hear was actually recorded near the end of
1:14.4	2023. We had originally planned to record it earlier than that and by we I mean
1:21.0	the museum and I, the Bernouinalda Museum in order to time it with an exhibition
1:26.4	about this sensational whodunit the exhibition was called Smith and Libby two rings seven months in one bullet, but scheduling conflicts and delays forced us to move it back and
1:40.3	then before I could get it out it was near the end.
1:43.0	But a new condensed long-term exhibition about the case
1:48.0	opens on May 4th, in the historic house and on the very sleeping porch where Zachary Smith Reynolds died.
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