Wright Thompson

And I was like, what are you doing?

And she said,

I was silent the last time this happened and I didn't really understand what was going on.

And I just told myself that if it ever happened again, I was not going to be silent because silence is complicity.

Silence is approval.

The vast, silent, self-interested sort of American landscape is why anything bad happens at all.

And like she lived through it.

In the Mississippi Delta in the 1960s.

And I'm really proud of that, honestly.

And like, she just refuses to go gently into that good night.

And she's a lot braver than I am, frankly.

She was in my head when I was thinking about the barn because I just was like, whatever happens, it's just going to be true.

This is what happened here.

And this is who we are.

And this is what we did.

And this is why we did it.

And I mean, a lot of that was just watching her just utter fearlessness.

Well, you know, if there's tremendous silence, I went in the Ole Miss library and the famous Look magazine where the killer's confessed is in the library, but the confession is torn out.

If you go to the Delta State Library in Cleveland, Mississippi, they have the Look magazine in there, but the confession is torn out.

When the FBI got to the courthouse in Tallahatchie County,