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Tapes from the dark side contains descriptions of violence and sexuality.

Listener discretion is advised. 15,000 people knew and came to lynching, the killing, brutalizing, torturing, they cut off his fingers one by one.

I was a 17-year-old boy in Waco, Texas.

It was just a mass spectacle, and they prolonged it.

They castrated him. They threw him on a fire.

For anyone who has any reservations about whether the government had a handle in this or not,

the mayor was in his office window and so was the photographer.

I had a front row seat and left us pictures that looked out of the window, but looked back in at us now to answer for these crimes.

Sir, I think you're like a Jack the Warkian.

I don't think Jack the Warke and necessarily cared about how ill people were or how they were suffering.

I think he was just enthralled by death.

For you to come in there, here we go again.

America is a bad country.

America lynched.

We know America lynched.

And in his PC world, you know, I don't know that my uncle didn't lynch a person.

My father didn't, knowing that I...

Let me ask you a question that people, did your parents ever stop a lynching?

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