Stephen Dubner

We interviewed him.

He'd been in all these histories of civil rights movement and Klan.

It turned out that he had exaggerated.

So I'd never heard or read a word about any claims like this.

But when we published our book for Economics 2005, someone wrote to us who had been a collaborator of that guy much later, working on a book together.

And this guy had had access to a set of very robust and valuable archives that were essentially private archives.

They weren't on the public record.

So I went into those archives, looked at everything, found out that this guy who was saying that our main character had exaggerated was probably very accurate.

I went to our subject.

This guy's name was Stetson Kennedy.

He's gone now, but he was quite old then.

And I said, I need to talk to you about something kind of important.

He was in Florida.

I flew down to Florida.

No, anxiety.

Sadness.

Because...

I am 99.9% I'm right.

So I envision what's he going to say?

He's either going to deny or it's going to be like, oh, shit.