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🗓️ 18 September 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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As part of FRONTLINE’s Transparency Project, all this week we’re publishing key interviews conducted as part of the reporting for The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden, a two-hour documentary special about the major-party political candidates. The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden airs on PBS and online Tuesday, September 22nd. Read more about Frontline’s Transparency Project at frontline.org.
In this episode, Yusef Salaam is interviewed by FRONTLINE’s Gabrielle Schonder. Salaam was falsely accused of rape and assault of a jogger in Central Park in 1989 in what became known as the “Central Park Five” case. He was exonerated in 2002, and is now an activist and motivational speaker. Salaam discusses the full-page ad that Donald Trump took out in local newspapers in 1989, calling for the execution of the Central Park Five.
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0:47.4 | Yusef's alarm was falsely accused of rape and assault of a jogger and Central Park in 1989 in what became known as a Central Park |
0:55.5 | 5 case. He was exonerated in 2002 and is now an activist and motivational speaker. |
1:03.0 | As part of Frontline's Transparency Project, all this week were posting key interviews |
1:07.4 | from the Choice 2020 and the run-up to the release on September 22nd of that two-hour documentary about the major party presidential |
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1:16.9 | Interviewed by Frontline's Gabriel Shander, Yonder, Youssef Salaam discusses the full-page ad |
1:22.4 | that Donald Trump took out in New York City newspapers |
1:25.5 | in 1989, calling for the execution of the Central Park Five. |
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