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This is Barry Truss. I'm Hank Clibbenoff.

James Brasier died 65 years ago. Now that was something terrible that happened in another century.

Time is an endless river that wears away everything. Stones, mountains, continents.

Eventually of course it washes away blood and family and memory.

But time has not worn away James Brasier, not yet. In your middle age your mother and father

may be gone, but they are not ancient history to you. They are the authors of your earliest days

and your DNA, passing to you their greatest strengths and their deep flaws.

And they hope that you'll recognize each for what it is. In one way or another,

what happened to them happened to you.

For a handful of people then, the passing of James Brasier is something that very much happened

to them that is very much with them. James's own family certainly, his sisters, his children.

But what of Officer Wayman Cherry's family?

They too must reckon with the events of 1958. So the sins of Wayman Cherry

...