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Actual Innocence

S1 Ep11: Obie Anthony

Actual Innocence

Brooke Gittings

Government, News, Society & Culture

4.4574 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2016

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Obie Anthony spent 20 years of his life a prisoner of the California Justice System for a murder he did not commit... he now has created his own non-profit to help people who have been exonerated... this is Obie's story.

Visit Obie Anthony's Non-Profit: http://exoneratednation.com/

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Music: Theme “Through The Lens" by Andy G. Cohen t

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Transcript

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0:00.0

My name is O.B. Anthony. I was wrongfully convicted of a murder robbery back in 1994.

0:07.0

I was 19 years old when I was convicted of that crime now 42.

0:12.0

I was exonerated in 2011. Since then, I've become a justice advocate.

0:18.0

I also started a nonprofit organization by the name of a

0:21.5

generated nation. And I've just been quite busy just keeping myself active,

0:26.2

inline myself with the ACLU, also with death penalty focus, and also with the

0:31.4

innocent network to try to continue to help those individuals who helped me.

0:52.0

Actual Innocence is a podcast that tells the stories of people who serve time for crimes they did not commit.

0:55.5

Listen to the heartbreaking true accounts of wrongfully convicted people and their journey to exoneration. Thanks so much for listening. Thanks for joining me

1:05.3

for actual innocence. And I want to start by saying, I appreciate you, the listener, more than I can say.

1:11.9

I receive an overwhelming amount of positive feedback, and it really warms my heart that this show is bringing so much awareness and therefore doing its job.

1:24.1

You are amazing.

1:26.4

And without dedicated listeners, this podcast would be nothing. So thank you so much.

1:34.0

The past couple of days has been kind of a whirlwind of interviews filled with tragic yet

1:40.1

inspiring stories that I will be presenting to you in the coming weeks.

1:45.8

I would like for you to consider for a minute the guests that I have on my show.

1:49.9

They oftentimes have been incarcerated for a lot of years, and many of them have missed

1:57.3

the technological revolution that brought us computers, tablets, and, you know,

2:05.6

cell phones.

2:06.6

When I do an interview, I try.

2:10.6

No.

2:11.6

It's my job to make the guest as comfortable as possible.

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