Wright Thompson
speaker
994 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 17 Sep
Wright Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
You know, you read about it in the book.
And the thing that kills me is that Willie Reed, he has to leave Mississippi.
He has to walk six miles to get to a highway where he's picked up in the middle of the night in a car driven by the NAACP.
The guy driving the car, by the way, was Medgar Evers.
Hmm.
Drives him to the airport.
He flies to Chicago.
He changes his name.
He works at the Jackson Park Hospital.
He marries this woman.
They are together, I think, for 12 years before she finds out that he had this other life.
And then in the early 2000s, the FBI calls him and said, we're going to reopen this case and you're going to have to go through your testimony again.
Can you come to Mississippi?
And he didn't want to do it, but he did it.
And the FBI agent, Dale Killinger, drives him from Tunica, where he was staying, over to the barn.
And, like, the thing that really shakes me is, I mean, the Mississippi Delta wasn't urban, but there were people everywhere.
Because you used to have a family every 25 acres.
So, you know, if you were farming 10,000 acres, it's 400 families.
And so, you know, which is a couple of, you know, 1,200 to 1,500 people.
And now you can farm that land with 18 people everywhere.
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