S1 Ep17: David McCallum
Actual Innocence
Brooke Gittings
4.4 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2016
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
David McCallum was arrested and convicted of murder when he was only 16 and exonerated almost 30 years later... this is David's story...
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, sure. |
| 0:00.8 | Well, so my name is David McAllep. |
| 0:03.3 | I'm an extremely, extremely humble person. |
| 0:06.7 | I like to think that I am humble to the point where I get along with people and I'm a people's person. |
| 0:14.5 | And I like to have dialogue, particularly dialogue that's very important to the overall conversation about society. |
| 0:21.6 | And, you know, I think that works for me and I'm going to continue to do the same exact |
| 0:25.6 | things that I promised myself that I would do, you know, prior to white generations. |
| 0:30.6 | So here I am. |
| 0:31.6 | Hi, this is Brooke. |
| 0:33.6 | Thanks for joining me for episode 22 of actual innocence. |
| 0:39.0 | 22. I can't believe it's been that many episodes. |
| 0:43.7 | Before we get started, I have a couple of announcements. There's still time to sign up for the |
| 0:49.6 | listener meetups. You just need to go to actual I-N-P-O-D.com. Click on support and then events. The events are |
| 1:00.4 | totally free, but we need you to register to make sure we have enough space. Also, Actual |
| 1:07.4 | Innocence is looking for a couple of volunteers, one who would be able to manage a section of the website, and others who might be able to do some transcripts of the episodes. |
| 1:18.3 | I've gotten several requests from family members of those who are currently incarcerated for transcripts to send to their innocent loved ones. |
| 1:27.3 | If you think that you would be available to do either one of these jobs, |
| 1:32.2 | please email me and I'll send you a little more information. |
| 1:41.7 | Actual Innocence is a podcast that tells the stories of people who serve time for crimes they did not commit. |
| 1:48.6 | Listen to the heartbreaking true accounts of wrongfully convicted people and their journey to exoneration. |
| 1:54.9 | Thanks so much for listening. |
| 1:59.2 | And now we're going to talk about one of our most relevant sponsors before we get on to the episode. |
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