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So welcome to a special extra episode of Barry Truths.

For those of you who've had questions about our host Hank Clibbinoff, how he got interested in civil rights cold cases,

why he wanted to tell this story, what led to the creation of this podcast, we thought we'd take a moment to fill you in.

So WABE and Atlanta produced the podcast and one of their reporters Ross Tarell recently spoke with Hank.

Here's the conversation.

Hey Hank, thanks for joining us to sit down and talk about the backstory behind the Barry Truths podcast. How are you doing?

I'm doing great today, thank you.

So to get started, tell me a little bit about your interest in these cold cases, what catch you started in this podcast and wanting to tell these stories.

You know, it's like anything, it's sometimes hard to know when it all really began.

In recent years, it began when journalists across the South began investigating a bunch of these stories.

Now there's one journalist in Jackson, Mississippi, Jerry Mitchell.

He's been doing this for 20, 25 years and has had a hand in the reopening of the Med Georevers, the killing of Med Georevers,

in the Birmingham Church bombing and another fellow named Ernest Avance convicted of killing Ben Chester White.

There been and Vernon Damer and Haddie's Burke, so he's done quite a few.

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