Previously on White Lives.

We saw a group of four or five men coming toward us.

These were all white men.

These were all white men.

And one of them was carrying a club.

I understand one was so brutally beaten that he had to be rushed to the hospital in Birmingham

with a possible brain concussion.

This minister is going to die, I think.

Do you think the cause of which your husband came to Selma was worth it?

Why?

It was seen as though he was with a missile quicker.

And all of it would have come to the light because he was a white man.

It was so hard to find these people who were all about reason.

Jim Reeb was attacked on the night of March 9, 1965, on a street corner in Selma, Alabama.

He died two days later in Birmingham.

In December of that year, three men were tried for his murder and acquitted.

No one else was investigated for the crime and the case has been cold for decades.

And that's it.

That's all you could definitively say about this case.

So without facts, without consensus, without any resolution, rumors and myths made their way in.

And when we started asking questions, everyone seemed to have a story about what had happened to Reeb.

Stories that were flying around.

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