Wright Thompson

In 2000, because they were thinking about reopening the case, they went and got the file.

The file was empty.

There wasn't a single trial transcript in any official storage facility anywhere in the United States.

They had to go find one in private hands on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi.

I mean, the erasure of this started almost immediately.

It was incredibly intentional.

It was driven by the press offices of Jim Eastland and John Stennis.

I mean, this was an unbelievably sophisticated operation.

And so, you know, when you talk about...

how come the dentist who I really like, how come he doesn't know?

It's because every single authority figure in his life from the time he was born, every coach, every preacher, every scout master, every aunt, every uncle, every person he went hunting with, everybody in his life

told him that this had nothing to do with him.

One of the reasons, obviously, that people are so against the teaching of any sort of black history in Mississippi at a certain like political persuasion is because Mississippi has been doing critical race theory for a very long time.

It's white.

Yeah, white.

Let me read you something real quick.

I could find this very quickly on my phone.

So the textbook that's being taught at my old high school, this is the only mention of Emmett Till in the entire book.

Current day?

Current day.