The Alabama Experience; I'm in the Truth Business: William Bradford Huie

production of i mean the truth business william bradford huie was made possible in part by a grant from the alabama humanities foundation a state program of the national endowment for the humanities william bradford huie made money and money made him fall in nineteen fifty five the weekend that this mississippi town to investigate one of the most notorious hate crimes of the century the murder of a black teenager emmett till are determined to find the truth you invented the controversial practice of checkbook journalism when he paid four thousand dollars to two white men who admitted they had shot to cotton gin fan to his neck and thrown him in the kalamazoo river

to head no the only the night i believe it was the finest investigative reporter noted before that there was such a german investigative reporter i think anyone who was a historian of that here it is very fortunate day happen to come across a moment where we record he was at work because then you really get a window into the human drama and the situation not just dealing with dr jackson sort of historical accounts of what happened when we are who said what william bradford huie his name is not as familiar as it once was but in the course of an extraordinary career this gifted writer from a small alabama town sold more than twenty eight million books seven of his works were made into

films one of them becoming the most watched television movie of its time fourteen of his books were bestsellers he was present at and wrote passionately about the major historical events of his terror the great depression and the second world war and the civil rights movement and through it all he claimed he was always after one thing i know the truth in the volatile of business plus i believe the truth is good or innovator in the summer of nineteen fifty five emmett till a chicago boy was sent by his mother to spend the summer with relatives in their money mississippi is because his first trip to the south he didn't understand local government relations between

blacks and whites showing off for his country cousins and the small storage at the pentagon tells the story of her tribe's chairman ryan white woman who was working in zion and the next night to white men with a revolver came to the house were to list dating three days later a fisherman discovered his badly decomposed body in the dollar had you ever written about extensively in and out of the sounds and it was the first occasion when reporters from outside the south came flooding in southern community and in caused a lot about the confrontation between the outsiders and the law enforcement people mr bryant and jw mylan admitted about being jailed but denied

killing him and a sensational trial and somber they were acquitted of murder by a jury of their peers twelve white men the jury deliberated just over an hour this was a matter of considerable international attention because it in effect whole story that national and international audiences were able to in a sense i understand in terms of the racial crisis that ten americans white americans have been either living where they're seeking to avoid for decades if not her life julie proposition nineteen ninety nine

and he had her details estonia back not leaving his sounding hard sell hurry hurry hurry in the morning driving ban tunis at home the way i'm stopping ahmed salah running throwing out the use of a friday and that he was saying and then he turned around and the situation is safe you know you make a gesture political victory the emmy wager an intimate than anger at their advantage

in that poll and more than once that he was a great believer in a fifty dollar bill because it made twice its highest active than a hundred ao go in may and if you went into a little town in mississippi oh where people had very little money you had a big stack of fifteen of those intended to impress them i would be pretty confident in saying that in the till case my lament right would not of talk except for money we had thought about it that he handed them to a sense that what he said with all these people are greedy to forestall you know that sorry no good sound but just to begin with you and then they're given an italian some cases like this they were they said they agree and you open up a set of poor white trash rip it is you open up that

suitcase very powerful pointed out they said they tasted got to have protected from prosecution my mom and brian agreeing to tell the story it originated anyway well there we met with the killers in secret every night for a week day he retrace their steps to check in accuracy of history young to go in every year and

then there are maybe trained in ballet doesn't really just doesn't know you and that kills mahler had shocked the world when she opened the casket at her son's funeral revealing his grotesque figure i want the world to see what these people have was telling the world what the murder was committed he exposed for the first time to fully and effectively and immediately the mines and motives of killers to see not only blacks as victims but to understand why they had been victimized by men who are themselves not all repentant not only morsel but dan amount of their premiums said well ate only about this wide the early eighties is not a plan that's what they've warned that a massive actually that by the day or you a

hughie story of the murder was published in look magazine and later in his book wolf whistle this was something that really brought home the depths to which an extremist to fans of racial segregation would go and it was certainly a contributing factor that built up into the civil rights movement of the nineteen sixties you eat might have been regarded as a champion of the civil rights movement if he had not decided to tell something else he learned through a fantastic coincidence emmett till father had been killed in the second world war life magazine made much of the irony that the son of a soldier fighting the nazis overseas would be murdered by racists at home a year earlier in nineteen fifty four he we had published the execution of private slovic his account of the only us servicemen in world war to shop for desertion ninety six americans were executed in the civil war that island

plumber and irate and so they can be executed for desertion and all my mistakes and those men were buried in a secret plot year joining the american cemetery and northern france the executed soldiers rest in unmarked graves but he we knew who was buried where he had secretly copied the cemetery diagram when he was briefly left alone in a pentagon office and the young man said somewhere that different than others that the key and after as read this piece and live how we're around picked up that plea and i'm look here's trey grayson it is slowly and that's so private new ish tale this on the main gist of it been executed for rape as erlich can say and then you use

revelations about the execution of louis till cost the burgeoning civil rights movement supports some liberals said some newspaperman but actually saying his checkbook journalism discredited his reporting most reportedly my acquaintance think checkbook journalism as bad business and i think they sincerely resented the field but here's the thing about checkbook journalism a great danger and the reason that the new york times and washington post and walter durable practice it it's simply that it might invite people to invent stories at the worst or at the margin distort stories so that suddenly stories become more dramatic or their role it becomes more simple so that their story is worth more than you want to pay more to get their story we the consumers of stories that are generated by the transaction has to be satisfied that the truth has been tone if the truth isn't authentic corroborated well if we have a reason to believe that what is the kroon has been towed the

fact that it has been fed by being the person other for his time weaving sewing be honest and doesn't shock me there might happen is worth five thousand ten data what eric it needs to be paid for if that's what it takes to get this to each screw those other people anyway that operated outside in a mainstream unethical our reporters examine the checkbook journalism was only pawn kiwis graphic dramatic account in look magazine and then of course subsequently in the paperback edition titled wolf whistle was really among the most searing moments i think in the period of the lighting fifties that made clear it's the extent to which show some southern whites would go in defense of racial segregation nine years later in nineteen sixty four racial violence exploded in mississippi again it was freedom summer andrew goodman james chaney and

schwerner working to register black voters were missing the fbi file on their carts abandoned and burn but the fbi could not find a young man or their bodies the new york herald tribune sent you read or philadelphia mississippi find the truths that we believed there was only one way to start the present and former they resent paying in order to get the panel recommended that the millennia that a plan that i think it's a pretty good case for using it or even for paying employer forty four days after the workers disappeared their bodies were discovered buried in an earthen dam four months later federal authorities indicted twenty one men of conspiring to violate the civil rights of goodman and schwerner and cheney statements from paid informants were crucial to the fbi's investigation and i urge the fbi paid for the body is earlier than they did and i was

working too bad you were fifteen or sixteen i was working with a plan for that by cuba but it would never be found in any other way billy's book three lives for mississippi was published less than four months after the indictment more than three years before the case came to court and if you know that the klan sponsored the murders in a conspiracy that involved local law enforcement officials and again he was criticized for this is not an ideal situation certainly it is a situation that invites answers but i don't know any other way i think that will probably have more conjecture you know then than anything he did of that nature because that was so sensational that he relied on low paid informants who really were really were

knowledgeable as much as the fbi sources know the fbi what we now know of a pretty much had actually handle on their key suspects within twenty four hours as an idea believed to this moment he was very instrumental in helping to really get the truth out about what was happening in passing tips on to people in terms of the inner workings of the mines and truths of that story until you finally get the chorus to the big break that reveals where the boys are buried it took somebody with bills own seven x and to get in there and meet people and yes i think he had to pay off some of those people in order for them to risk putting their lives on the line with the klan the national media descended on mississippi get companies to a sensational murder stories they reported the news and then left to explain why these events happened it

would take an unusual southerners black and tall for plantation society but in the northern part of the state the appalachian foothills created different culture people of scots irish descent scratched out a living finding small stands of sort of arms were so small that we still need to slave labor really unfortunate makes that distinction in absalom absalom who says that a country people kill people amounts of people and a judge a man more on his abilities were accused word his personal dignity and four pieces in that in the black belt in the tidewater they're much more concerned with race and property the plantation money the big al's family there's a difference between the two cells when you look at the north of our counties in particular the mound counties these were not slaveholding

counties and they didn't have the burden oliver racism that applied to the south of our counties and they didn't have the attitude of defiance for the vote william bradford huie was born in huntsville alabama in nineteen ten his grandfather charged with that get at gettysburg regretted joining the confederacy saying it was a poor man's fight a man whose father was a farmer and obviously was very funny bill gilly was every teaches favorite student it was double moment that the second grade one third grade and was a writer and exchanging love notes with his sweetheart he would be married for thirty nine years he was a high school valedictorian bill was very well educated and very disciplined by his mother louise people were shaped by the land

he was shaped by his mother and i have a feeling the rise above this problem of lacking see this very very critical a critical factor really was the first person in his family to go to college to save the university of alabama and the depression its president advertised for students in the new york papers thousands of angry parents found the bargain when they sent their children to tuscaloosa well up until the time build new school a diverse he had been as i say built for planters signs and he might've expected to go to school with mainly the sons of south alabama but in fact the student body at that point was composed of socialist from chicago and a great percentage of your students from new york and new jersey and there was bill ewy an open minded young man i'm prepared to meet these people talk with them learn from that i think it i think it

affected him for the rest of his life he already had earn money to stay in school and sent home to a struggling family he graded papers for a professor he typed papers for students even write them you we ended the university intending to become a writer or lawyer but in his freshman year he sold a story to true magazine and nothing would stop him from becoming a writer he was a dynamo graduating five beta kappa now he would take the same energy and drive and attack his literary effort to share he was short compact and the hand he would never let somebody know by his bed like he like to read by the seat of his pants in his own partial of acid a little know where he was where he came from it was what he was all about as a reporter for the birmingham post he recovered violent strikes crime and a controversial trial of the scots world boys he saw how graft fuel the political

machine in the state capital he witnessed the execution of a black man he knew to be innocent of rape he published his own newspaper and his own magazine well you we published his first novel among the stars novel he'd been writing in the late thirties and in the novel he put all of those experiences working as a newspaper reporter covering labor unrest it's an autobiographical novel mud on the stars is about the education of a young cynical journalist from the north alabama hill country gospel of favor is fiercely proud of the tennessee river land that has been in his family for generations but the river must be tamed the family land has flooded and lost won a tv a build the dams that bring power and prosperity to the valley the book would later be the basis for aliases and movie wild river starring lee remick and montgomery clift well even in their first novel you is coming to his major subject which is the relationship between the individual and society

in the vigils just have to adjust i'm often up for the greater good mud on the starz ends with the protagonist going off the wall a witness to the most calamitous event of the century you know we went to war too like most men of his generation he would be the most important event of his life it would provide him with his best material for twenty years earl if you see a

movie or read the book americanization of emily it i could just see bill doing just about everything the character played by james go on the levee that was his bill the navy put you his talents as a journalist to good use a work to make sure that the navy's exploits wouldn't be overshadowed by the armies well it was commissioned it into her she argues if he was commissioned requiem in a meeting to work on the basis of an expert a literal up with common you use orders had him island hopping the pacific with the seabees to publicize the accomplishments of the navy's construction battalions in a book called can do he was right beside the seabees as they build roads and runways under enemy fire at guadalcanal canadian side an antiwar jima what a summer that was written isn't as an aide who was there was sort of an element of propaganda not for good for a good

cause he worked for the animal ran the seabees in nineteen forty four hughley and the admiral he served for england as the world's largest naval a martyr was being us gamble and just like his hero in the americanization of emily you we wanted sure at d day i know it was on the beach and how we got there i don't know i've always suspected he was a modest man talking about things like this i don't think he was forced to bear in a way to garner was in the movie by saying that you're not very rev

lieutenant madison is israeli though huey because bill was a little bit of an operator the way that's unwise and if you recall madison wis i was there any that was bill well some writers are luckier than other writers and they have experiences that translate easily into fiction you it was one of those lucky writers now the author of four books so accustomed to working with admirals and generals having traveled from omaha beach oak an hour he was ready for the media capital of the world is full of energy and constantly the world of publishing television lecturing and political commentary you can take such a risk modern the stars have made him a rich man in today's dollars

he was definitely really at home he knew he was very handsome dashing beautiful smile prematurely white hair was like browsing why clashes and blue eyes he used really stunning and very sharp funny music streaming of southern our very very curious very pronounced in intensity smiled radio and ten of a sunday and a smile he was almost a completely are comparable he spoke of working with great intensity and yet it he was owed conventional you expect others did you want to re published mainly stover is one of the books that came from his experiences in the

war the novel sold five million copies jane russell started the movie playing a maid the southern honolulu production techniques into the world's oldest profession it's very funny work really i think is a woman who mass produce prostitution that's what she did he had always korea because they call them and she got a bed with one guy and she runs an annex criminal be a guy waiting there an achievement in that it was all very funny and go manage the beef many stellar stood for all of the people are profiting from ortega and nine cent than harbin sales he wrote day mrs mullen vote of them amy's stovall and as i never published a part of that they're in the american river was preparing to do as is william faulkner was so me is a negative i'm a one day

he told me that i had to think in terms of a lot of those these days you never made him an exit that long jesus' word doing that articles for newsmagazines about important issues which enhanced its reputation as a serious journalist but he was a little reluctant to regulate risk is teresa for other popular magazines that would sell in the hundreds of thousands of cyber magazine called him of boswell of the bordello there was warren i remember that these girls will it isn't going

to say anything in the same way that i said i like to write about again in the human heart i think he liked to write about what makes people who they are in section on he'll use to say that he owed the elders so the silicon on the three major magazines that were said in new post call years of work he was an energetic her romantic view of things wrote with extraordinary speed and knew how to write the competence of the five that should fall of the fictional long fiction hughley parlayed his successes with his books and magazines into lucrative lecture tours his political commentaries were widely published and led to a relationship with the american mercury magazine which eventually owned soon his reputation

as a journalist enables him to become the host of a nationally televised interview program in my interview with the editor of the american market first time ever so did you and i was the kid with the television show called launching products when he was the moderator so that was the first i'd ever knew bill you exist for many americans now already you've spent very clear a democrat for you a conservative or a liberal democrat are you are you a new dealer how do you define your own position and then within democratic faithful on one might help of a democrat and thought the quality of the administration in math at the

voter legislation in quite substantially bestselling author a lecture in constant demand a network television personality one popular magazine lionized fury he was truly a national figure well the question to be answered here the mystery here is why a man who was at the peak of his career television journalism man was doing very well would leave the northeast and return to hard so all about but ruth was never happy as she didn't fit in in new york i mean i'm not as reliably she never opened her mouth a party she just sat there and was terribly ill at ease there is an amendment being shopped on more than one occasion by how harshly he spoke to a huge almost to explode over the most trivial problem he didn't win michigan win michigan

close the door and they're funded as simply assume that it was a lot of messages this full of full of static one another was a lot a lot to do they have that many generations of your family buried in churchyard but they're it's a new gene that i would think i love the country and many good things about it you use korean war remarkably his return to alabama plays juliet the center of america's next crusade because it is true and perhaps because he was a southerner editors and readers alike as someone who would speak with honesty about the south they gathered stop and see that through their eyes they're say you eat as a southern

storyteller they're seen somebody who's on the ground the south who has connections know the landscape knows the players and is going to be able to get in there and get into the story with some healing and some bet in nineteen fifty six offers or neale hurston enlisted you use helped uncover a controversial trial in florida kirsten i contributed to you is american mercury what's not allowed access to the jail suspect you investigated the case and wrote ruby mccollum a story of the murder of a white physician in a rural florida town you will not only reveal that the suspect a black woman was the positions lover but his account also exposed a corrupt local government that wanted to keep history quiet and keep blacks in their place a judge jailed you we in an unsuccessful effort to get him off the case so when bill wrote this story and it wasn't just about a scandalous love affair or i think it was much more they symbolized

the problems the social problems and the racial problems in the economic problems of the sabbath four years ago i passed my fiftieth birthday and the last case after reading the tale story for nothing really that there's another is unveiling the murders in i think fifth of that i became an iconic eighties no fly around has been jailed i enjoyed the contempt of court and it cost me twenty three thousand dollars to get them out of debt free year before the courts despite his frustrations with this story he realize that race was a huge subject had attracted many readers indeed three live from mississippi his next book on the subject gave you we and international audience when it was published in nineteen sixty five dr king wrote are and i think it's in three lives from mississippi the uninsured shani book are and they never wrote a practice for any other

book now an authority on race relations you we anticipate novel put the spotlight on the kkk klansmen was a sensation and a bestseller richard burton and lee marvin start in the ground in the novel helium as the clan and showed his inner workings of the klan retaliating and he also had run ins with the local klan up in hearts only is he sure that news driveway one night with a shotgun and a hired armed guards all these people went to around his street threatening and so i know i don't i mean that's a risk it isn't a matter of courage anything like this year's finale then alabama to live alone ten and learn so and i can afford to take the helm think there is an acronym for jaguars for mass

he would do it was riveting mr offending the war funding after she did repeat that i've always i've always thought he was courageous or a man in a champion of the investigative journalism an assessment people listen you've made mad people for generations have fought to get the plan unfold to terrorist that people have never believed that rationing humanity was a part of the southern way of life chasing the general store and potentially dangerous my pleasure wanda james earl ray case it isn't a matter of physical courage isn't the same thing is as with the emmett till case where he we had to meet in a room with many new to the murders he never actually met james earl ray during this period but it still takes a lot of nerve to defy federal judge risk a lawsuit are risk contempt of court charges or risk

going to jail and the minute the sixty eight dr martin luther king jr was shot to death as he stood on the balcony of the lorraine motel in memphis investigators recovered a rifle and determined that the assassin had fired from the window of a boarding house across the street sixty six days later after one of the most extensive manmohan singh history james earl ray was arrested in london and charged with the murder with king's death the nation had been rocked by the third political assassination of the decade everyone wondered was re guilty head he alone fired the shot from the boarding house or was a part of a conspiracy it would be months until the trial here we wouldn't wait after the arrest the pay grade forty thousand dollars for his story you could always there expect him to gravitate to those big stories like the james earl ray's story and often to be their first

which is what happened in that place where a professed his innocence and a series of letters to you we from his prison cell he recounted the euro's plight as an escaped convict before the assassination here we investigated every move the career criminal had made and wrote about it and look magazine his conclusions didn't satisfy anyone well i think the markets that may nineteen sixty eight than they gave him out this mandate and the slave martin luther king ronnie and i have it interviewed in prison says that he was he was framed that he did not commit this crime yet he says that he didn't even know this crime was about they committed millions of

readers following to his account and look but a year after the assassination re pleaded guilty to the murder though now he maintains his innocence the worst thing that could happen to enable which to re plead guilty and what i needed ever break even then the gays was a trial therefore that the worst thing that could happen was to plead guilty that's already gets up and says i said before when you're maybe plead guilty in order to take the book is not only a live to one hundred and eighty degree lie always this is huey ended up cyan that james are worried by himself without the aid of others conspired to and did in fact assassinating martin luther king jr that night when we were sitting here in the house over there shortly before we bad when we talk about the various aspects of a case where a few we continue to believe that james earl ray acted alone i do say though that i think

given his his understanding of that case i'd have to agree with and without any any great debate after he concluded james earl ray acted alone and he's convinced me and nothing writers ever said from his prison cells or anything else does this change that do you really believe they're re was part of a conspiracy and he thought that stir it would be one of the best selling books of all time but you it's extensive investigations uncovered no conspiracies that was his argument that's what he said and my phone interview with him why in the world would i say there's not a conspiracy here when having one would have made me a lot more money on keeping this thing going when it might be a lot more money ibm headed jeremiah good friends that look i had that their sakes other foreign provisions to evade us the money over the years that they've

re story why did there was no money to be made the code only way was involved in no one in that they'll widen i go in and make money a parade lawyer way cleave my seven above all make money for a look my good friends they'll know that people why did not doing the reason i didn't do it was that it was a true and there are two things that i have for i would never do that were never believed something years ago that one of the leading anti were never believed something that goes at a golf ball made he's slow the dreamer was the zenith of kiwis career as an investigative journalist and the last of his books on race he had devoted much of his career to the subject well why his motivations for doing all this i dont know i really dont they would have been more of the questions

i would have loved to ask you were you up to it why do you think this i think you have to understand hewitt was not an advocate and anyway huey was not someone that service of rice that we could rely on as a friend in moments of me he was an antagonist but he was sort of out there as an impartial observer it's a you know at the same time the taliban really fun for some civil rights under shown the truth that is not and that's not a work and for civil rights he's written mad the one thing that moved him to action most often was hypocrisy he couldn't stand the pocket house august it was so they would get when it came through to the races race which he was born and that isn't born a democrat nevada maine went to church every sunday or any sunday necessarily i don't think you

think i think he was so independent journalist no war so he was that he was considered a liberal by the wallace administration now i don't think he was a flaming local level i think with all his rambunctious knows he reflected on his upbringing and his surroundings and then although if he did not support racism i think he supported many of the ideals that the people of hearts allow obama stood for i used to think of myself as a political conservative now conservatism in the south there as something to racism the losses of others have taken over the time conservative so i yeah i'm embarrassed when i think of myself as a conservative because the air native now no to racism and in this hour we'll hear

we rarely edit and in his best work never wrote about big important people politicians generals in and presidents he wrote about ordinary people caught in extra ordinary situations can iraqis a full blooded human indian wasn't gung ho marine at the outbreak of world war two he played a small part in raising the flag on mouse or by sea annual jima and a government insisted he become a hero i shy and private man he was overwhelmed by the celebrity that was thrust upon him at one bond rally after another in the hero of eulogy my kiwi writes about the anguish hayes fell on his precious simon when those monies were dying on the beaches in the book sympathetically tales from a reluctant hero succumbed to alcoholism then died shortly after the war americans thought

iraqis was a hero no one ever said that a pretty slow rate the only gi to be executed for desertion in world war two but here we had to find out why the army needed to make an example of slow way martin sheen starred in a tv movie it came in the first week i remember the day slowly came back at his court martial he wasn't happy in those kids might be stuck in jail for two or three years of course it never occurred to him even after he got the sense that it actually shot darling i'm in a little trouble please don't worry about the clothes i'm all right and bill

maintained with this boy and he was a boy he was an immature and not very bright young man who couldn't take the stress of war who beg to be relieved you say was deliberately chosen for execution because he was a nobody who didn't come from a particularly strong ethnic group or constituency and this was the whole colony of veiled story about it and exposing this was that he was unfairly and unjustly treated because he was poorer because he was an aged it because he had no connections because he was scared to death if able bodied soldiers know they can avoid hazardous duty it fight a war come on frank able bodied men about avoiding hazardous duty for years never shot any of them maybe it's time we started well

i suppose that makes it easier the fact it is a confirmed phone is that he was a petty criminal bad boy tried lots of them a good soldiers with us increases shoestring supply fb powerful as an inversion of that it's b the pasta hi excuse you promised lonely until maybe in cold blood was the best nonfiction book of reported that we've ever had an outbreak is still a long one cup to have three

of her chosen a magnificent piece of work of detection united and fifty writers who could say no or gag executed and so what they also and he wrote this note to himself that said though the only man in such a situation deserves to be known i've got a dig them up he was the first of our investigative reporter that's what to show me the sky winning in and investigated found the truth and then wrote one held a book about it the executioner private so that was the most watched television movie ever when it aired in nineteen seventy four for another kind of writer it might have served as a capstone to her career that had lasted six decades huey was determined to match its success but there was little interest in his subjects' the civil rights movement was languishing america was obsessed with

vietnam not he weaves war once he had been close to the action in the south now it was an isolated small town southern writer he did a book about far stall which should have been a stunning book abut he couldn't cope dealing with a new york publisher from alabama in the hours overnight which bill really invested a big part of his soul and writing was not a successful you use writing had made millions of dollars but now most of it had been spent and his wife ruth his childhood sweetheart was ill before i came along his wife ruth had bad thirteen month battle with cancer and out bail spent all cans and money on that at an age when most people retire he

we kept working he felt he had no choice they'll have to earn a lot of money had a wife who's not well and he built this beautiful home and hard sell across the first he built his mother's how many built his own home and they were across the street from each other bill has made and he made a lot of money in his hand he also spent a lot of money and done just about all of it went right back into writing he was at his desk in nineteen eighty six when he died at the age of seventy six he would survive by a second why there were no children in either marriage and sometimes in investigating histories william bradford huie paid for information many journalist resented that and still think it's unethical you return to the south just as one of the

great stories in this century was unfolding there but his move isolated him from the new capital of new york is spirited independence enabled him to find stories were others never thought of looking at independents man was always a loner who struggled to keep his journalistic enterprise going even to visit davis controversy about his checkbook journalism because he was alone and there were no colleagues to champion his memory used books were out of print how could a man do that much and be so well remembered for what i feel about bill was he was genius what his genius did not lay in his ally in his prose style it was a genius and a federally about what to write how to market it holiday music a conspicuous

figure in the world of journalism in the early fifties and at his best a wonderful writer i think any serious historian of the american past i think any conscientious scholar who wishes to look at the struggle for racial justice in the period of the nineteen fifties and nineteen sixties musk acknowledged to his world here through he weighs eyes you get the workings of the human heart and it is truly truly a telling wonderful emotional story that's i think the mark hallmark of william bradford he was work and all of his writing william bradford huie mentions of continuing struggle for freedom he writes as a great reporter but also as an impassioned man he writes with a little detail but not that those aren't my guest martin luther king jr said that about paying respect of william bradford huie journalists officer marvelous to

say that by its end the volatile truth is good the power production of i mean the truth business william bradford huie

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