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“Buried Truths” acknowledges and unearths still-relevant stories of injustice, racism, and resistance in the American South. We can’t change our history, but we can let it guide us to understanding. The podcast is hosted by journalist, professor, and Pulitzer-prize-winning author Hank Klibanoff.
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S5 Presenting: "Orson Welles and the Blind Soldier" from Radio Diaries
In 1946, Orson Welles, the director of Citizen Kane, was at the height of his fame. At the time, he had a national radio show called Orson Welles Commentaries on ABC. After a year on the radio,…
S5E7 The Trial | S5 E7
What happened inside of the courtroom when Joe Cameron stood trial for the murder of Reverend Pickett? The trial tells a deeper story about who could receive equal justice in a small southern…
S5E6 The Investigation | S5 E6
The Columbus police investigate one of their own, Joe Cameron in the Reverend Pickett’s death and come up with a surprising conclusion. Meanwhile, J. Edgar Hoover sends in the FBI.See…
S5E5 “Absolutely no mercy” | S5 E5
Did the World War II battle of Peleliu, where more than 20,000 American and Japanese combatants fought on an island they could walk across, shape Rev. Pickett’s fate? For more, visit…
S5E4 Medicine and Race | S5 E4
How medical myths about Black people led American health care to fail Clarence Pickett in 1957. It is a tragedy that, 70 years later, is still failing African-Americans. For more, visit…
S5E3 "Baby, they done killed me" | S5 E3
Rev. Clarence Pickett’s final days: his arrest, his beating and how he saw a doctor one day and was dead the next. For more, visit buriedtruths.orgSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S5E2 "I still hear the screams" | S5 E2
After enthralling congregations for several years, Rev. Pickett landed in the Georgia state mental institution, then a county jail where the jailer beat him to the edge of death. For more, visit…
S5E1 The boy preacher | S5 E1
Rev. Clarence Horatious Pickett was a celebrated young pastor who developed behavioral problems that drew attention and arrests. But none should have led to what followed. For more, visit…
S5 Season 5 | A Preacher, a Policeman, and a Physician | Trailer
Four days before Christmas in 1957, Clarence Horatious Pickett, a preacher and newspaper ad salesman in Columbus, Georgia, walked into town to pick up his paycheck. Forty-eight years old and known as…
S4E12 “The valley of dry bones” | S4 E12
Caroline Herring is a singer, songwriter and scholar of the South. She discusses the evolution of her music and of the song she wrote for Buried Truths.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy…
S4E11 “My world just stopped turning” | S4 E11
Buried Truths Live, Part 2: Our special event continues with a conversation between Hank and Kelley Stinson, granddaughter of the policeman who killed James Brazier.See omnystudio.com/listener for…
S4E10 “There will never be closure” | S4 E10
Buried Truths Live, Part I: a special evening onstage with the daughters of James Brazier, who share the pain of his loss some 60 years after their father died.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy…
S4E9 “I’m not brave like you” | S4 E9
An anonymous letter in the files of Donald Lee Hollowell captures white attitudes in the South. Some whites harbored no hatred for Black people but were too afraid to say so. What about today? And…
S4E8 A season of fire | S4 E8
Voting rights activists in Terrell are met with shootings and arson, attracting the attention of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Jackie Robinson and an angry President Kennedy. See…
S4E7 Courtroom drama | S4 E7
Penniless and heartbroken, Hattie Bell Brazier pulls the only lever of power available to her: she sues Mathews and Cherry in federal court, setting up a tense battle between leading lawyers for and…
S4E6 The unexpected email | S4 E6
James Brazier’s family will never forget his killing, but what about the family of Weyman Cherry? His granddaughter reaches out to us after learning of his brutal racism. She accepts the truth but…
S4E5 Light in the heart of darkness | S4 E5
An underground railroad of information smuggles the story of Terrible Terrell out of Georgia and onto the Washington Post’s front page.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S4E4 The vanishing knife | S4 E4
The police said Willie Countryman had a knife, but did he? And his girlfriend is left to wonder about his love for her. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S4E3 The witnesses in the jail | S4 E3
The cops had already hurt James Brazier when they arrested him and took him to jail. But they returned late that night to finish him. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S4E2 The police come for James Brazier | S4 E2
On one April day, three generations of the Brazier family, including 10-year-old James Jr., were beaten by white Dawson police. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Buried Truths has published 66 episodes since January 2018, covering topics in History, Society & Culture.
Buried Truths is currently dormant with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 36m.
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