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Episode 7. White man and a white court. They were all white men. The defendant, the judge,

the prosecutor, the defense attorney, the 12 jurors.

This was the courtroom in which Officer Joseph Cameron would be tried for murder

in the killing of the Reverend Clarence Pickett.

And the vanilla cast of the court, coupled with the race of the victim, foretold the result.

White cop charged with killing black man in 1957? Not guilty. Next case. This is Barry Truce. I'm Hank Clippinoff.

Lawyers in small southern towns, for the prosecution, for the defense, it didn't matter,

tended to know each other very well.

They met in court routinely, but they also met socially and in their churches and civic organizations, maybe as part of a standing

foursome at a local golf course. The parties to the Cameron case, the prosecutor, the defense

attorney, the judge, the lawyer representing Clarence Pickett's family, weren't just all white guys,

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