Previously on White Lives.

And then a car full of white men pulled up and stopped right behind the ambulance.

And I remember a rush of feeling, Clark, you just have to get out of here, just run.

I understand you wanted to talk to me about whatever it is,

take me out of it.

I didn't take care of the man on the way to Birmingham.

I just always will believe it.

But you notice every layer of the onion, there's something a little whacker than the first layer underneath.

And you ain't got halfway through the onion yet.

Toward the end of the trial for the murder of Jim Reeve,

the defense attorney Joe Pilcher spoke to reporters on the steps of the Dallas County Courthouse.

And Reverend Reeve did not receive proper medical attention.

And that he was negligently and you might almost say,

want them, leave them be to die.

Pilcher's defense strategy was to argue that the civil rights movement was a need of a white martyr.

And that the attack on Jim Reeve, the Unitarian Minister from Boston,

had provided the perfect opportunity for the movement to get one.

That somehow, some way, the movement had conspired to kill Reeve.

You said this morning in court that they willfully let him die.

That was my statement, yes.

Do you mean that, sir?

I mean that the evidence indicates that, yes, sir.

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