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In March of 1965, three clergymen were attacked by a group of white men with

clothes outside a restaurant in Somalabama.

I understand one was so brutally beaten that he had to be rushed to the hospital in

Birmingham.

That man who had to be rushed to the hospital, that was the Reverend James Reeb,

who came from Boston to join Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's fight for voting rights in

Somalab.

So Reeb's death drew national outrage.

He was a husband, a father, a minister, and he was white.

Even President Lyndon Johnson talked about the incident just days later in his

speech introducing the Voting Rights Act.

Long suffering man and women peacefully protested the denial of their rights as

Americans.

Many were brutally assaulted.

One good man, a man of God was killed.

This is Code Switch from MPR.

I'm Jean Demby and I'm Shrine Marisol Miraji, even though the whole nation was

talking about Reverend James Reeb's murder, nobody was ever held accountable.

50 years later, two journalists, both Alabamians, set out to find out why.

And Jean, you spoke with Andrew Beck Grayson, Chip Brandley about their

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