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0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Renabde Fattah. |
0:01.6 | I'm Romteen Ara-Blui and this is ThruLine from NPR. |
0:05.2 | Today on the show, Chip, Rantley and Andrew BecGrace are joining us. |
0:09.3 | They're the hosts of NPR's podcast, White Lies. |
0:12.9 | Chip and Andrew, thank you so much for coming into the studio. Talk to us. |
0:16.3 | Yeah, thanks for having us. We're excited to be here. |
0:18.2 | We really appreciate it. Love the show. |
0:19.6 | So, all right, you guys host this great new series from NPR called White Lies. |
0:25.6 | And it investigates a cold case from more than 50 years ago, right? |
0:30.6 | So, catch us up. What's the series about? |
0:32.6 | So, White Lies is about the un-solved, unresolved murder of a man named James Reeb, |
0:38.8 | who was a Unitarian Minister who came down to Sama Alabama in March of 1965 to support |
0:45.1 | the Butting Rights Campaign going on in Sama. And he was actually a while he was in Alabama. |
0:50.0 | He was attacked on the streets in Sama, died a couple days later in Birmingham. |
0:54.9 | And his murder is essentially going on unsolved for the last 54 years. |
0:59.4 | Races obviously front and center in this story. So, I wonder, how did that factor into how |
1:06.0 | you thought about telling it? You know, you're both White reporters. |
1:10.2 | Did you feel like your whiteness granted you or denied you any access in talking to people? |
1:15.6 | It definitely helped with access, for sure. I mean, I think being two white guys from Alabama, |
1:21.6 | who look the way we look and also can kind of talk the talk, helped open doors to get people to |
1:29.3 | talk to us who I think otherwise would not have. And so, we tried to use that turn advantage while |
1:34.4 | also understanding that, being aware of the whole time we were doing this. |
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