How Emmett Till Got Erased from the History Books, with Wright Thompson

Pablo Torre Finds Out

Pablo Torre, Le Batard & Friends

Sports

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pablo Torrey finds out. I am Pablo Torrey and today we're going to find out what this sound is.
0:06.0	We have to create a tribe of us before we do anything else.
0:11.0	Right after this ad.
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0:30.0	Kieber, have you got my new speaker in the bathroom? Uh, no, Connie. Haven't seen it.
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0:38.0	I knew you had it.
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0:53.0	This is the best thing you've read.
1:05.0	I mean it's a weird question but I sort of agree.
1:09.0	Wasn't even a question.
1:10.0	No, it's not.
1:11.0	I just think it's, it's, this the new book the barn is the best thing I've read you
1:17.4	right this is gonna sound crazy if like everything else I've ever written is
1:21.8	prelude and practice to be able to do this right and not
1:25.6	fuck it up. It is reported. I want people to know about the fact that this is
1:30.6	investigative journalism that is cinematic and even that
1:36.4	word I'm already catching myself because it's it's it's about what really
1:40.5	happened in a story that I do so much less than I realized.
1:45.5	Well, that's what got started for me.
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