How Emmett Till Got Erased from the History Books, with Wright Thompson
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Pablo Torre
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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You have heard about the grocery store. And the photographs cannot be unseen. But the 1955 murder of a 14-year-old in Mississippi — a killing that sparked the Civil Rights Movement, that forever shaped America — has been criminally underreported. Until Wright Thompson, son of the Delta and sportswriter of the century, embarked upon a story about LeBron's Lakers... that became a mapping of intentionally constructed, deeply hard-wired silence, in his new instant bestseller and surrealistic people's history, The Barn.
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| 0:32.6 | Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. |
| 0:34.7 | I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is. |
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| 1:07.9 | This is the best thing you've written. |
| 1:30.9 | I mean, it's a weird question, but I sort of agree. Wasn't even a question. No, it's not. I just think it's, it's, this book, the new book, the barn is the best thing I've read you write. This is going to sound crazy. I feel like everything else I've ever written is prelude and practice to be able to do this right and not f it up it is reported i want people to know about the fact that this is investigative journalism that is cinematic and even that word |
| 1:38.9 | i'm already catching myself because it's it's it's about what really happened yeah in a story that I knew so much less than I realized. |
| 1:47.8 | Well, that's what got started for me. I mean, the Emmett Till murder, which is at the center of this book, |
| 1:53.4 | and we'll get into all the other things around it. But the Emmett Till murder is one of the most |
| 1:57.8 | famous murders in American history. I mean, to me, it's up there with Abraham Lincoln |
| 2:02.6 | in terms of killings that forever shaped this country. |
| 2:06.6 | And so we think we know a lot about it. |
| 2:09.6 | Emmett Till's body was found in the Tallahatchie River, August 31st, |
| 2:14.6 | 195. |
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