In 1995, Detective Tony Richardson was trying to figure out who killed a fellow officer.

The case comes down to who is believed and who is ignored.

Oh my goodness, we did connect to Innocent Man.

I'm Beth Shelburn from Lava for Good Podcasts.

This is Ear Witness.

Listen to Ear Witness on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your

podcasts.

Sometimes the pop culture we love just teens hits differently in retrospect.

Maybe it's a tabloid story we couldn't get enough of or an illicit student teacher relationship

on our favorite show.

We're Susie Bannakerum and Jessica Bennett, posts of the new podcast in retrospect, where

each week we'll revisit a cultural moment from the past that shaped us and probably you

to try to understand what it taught us about the world and our place in it.

You're the first person that I've talked to about this for years and years.

Listen to In Retrospect on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you find

your favorite shows.

The last archive is a show about the history of truth in America.

Each episode, we tell a story about people coming up with some new way of understanding

the world, histories of science, technology, democracy.

This season, we've got stories on everything from mid-century songwriting machines to social

network theory and plenty of mad inventors.

Of course, I go, oh my god.

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