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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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,
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.
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