White Lies

By NPR

What's White Lies about?

In 1965, Rev. James Reeb was murdered in Selma, Alabama. Three men were tried and acquitted, but no one was ever held to account. Fifty years later, two journalists from Alabama return to the city where it happened, expose the lies that kept the murder from being solved and uncover a story about guilt and memory that says as much about America today as it does about the past.

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10.29.2019

From the NPR podcast Code Switch: Eighty-five years ago, a crowd of several thousand white people gathered in Jackson County, Fla., to participate in the lynching of a man named Claude Neal. The poet L. Lamar Wilson grew up there, ...

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10.29.2019 Bonus: A Strange And Bitter Crop From the NPR podcast Code Switch: Eighty-five years ago, a crowd of several thousand white people gathered in Jackson County, Fla., to participate in the lynching of a man named Claude Neal. The poet L. Lamar Wilson grew up there, ...
06.25.2019 A Dangerous Kind Of Self-Delusion In our final episode, we examine the legacy of the Rev. James Reeb's death. We speak both to his descendants and to those of one of his attackers, exploring how the trauma and the lies that followed it affected both ...
06.18.2019 Learn Not To Hear It In Episode 6, we reveal the identity of the fourth man who participated in the attack on the Rev. James Reeb.
06.11.2019 The X On The Map In Episode 5, we search for the fourth attacker while digging into the murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson, a black civil rights activist who was murdered in Alabama just weeks before the Rev. James Reeb. Jackson's killer was brought to ...
06.04.2019 The Sphinx Of Washington Street In Episode 4, we find a woman who says she knows who killed the Rev. James Reeb, because she was there. She's ready — for the first time in more than 50 years — to tell the truth about what ...
05.28.2019 The Counternarrative In Episode 3, we break down the conspiracy theory that emerged after the Rev. James Reeb's murder: that he was allowed to die or was killed because the civil rights movement needed a white martyr.
05.21.2019 The Who And The What In Episode 2, we unravel the aftermath of the Rev. James Reeb's murder: the arrest of three men and the defense brought at trial. We also track down the last living jurors.
05.14.2019 The Murder Of The Rev. James Reeb In 1965, the Rev. James Reeb was murdered in Selma, Ala. No one was ever held to account. We return to the town where it happened, searching for new leads in an old story.
05.06.2019 Introducing White Lies A new serialized podcast from NPR investigates a 1965 cold case. New episodes every Tuesday starting May 14.

White Lies

What's White Lies about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

White Lies episodes:

Bonus: A Strange And Bitter Crop

A Dangerous Kind Of Self-Delusion

Learn Not To Hear It

The X On The Map

The Sphinx Of Washington Street

The Counternarrative

The Who And The What

The Murder Of The Rev. James Reeb

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