S28 Trailer | Someone Knows Something: Dee & Moore
In 1964, the partial remains of two black teenagers — Charles Moore and Henry Dee — were pulled from a backwater of the Mississippi River. Brutally murdered by the Ku Klux Klan, no one was ever convicted. In one of his first ever cold case investigations, Someone Knows Something host David Ridgen joins victim's brother Thomas Moore, as he returns to Mississippi 40 years later to discover the truth, confront the Klansmen involved, and find justice.
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This is a CBC podcast.
Oh, hi, Mr.
President.
How are you doing?
Fine, thanks.
Have you a good weekend?
Yes, it was very nice.
Thank you.
The Mississippi thing, did you see where they got part of a body down there?
Just a few days ago, they fished two bodies out of the river, which they thought might have been the civil rights workers.
And as soon as they found out that they were not the civil rights workers, it seemed as though that America felt that, oh, just another two Negroes were killed, killed.
So what?
They didn't stir up more trouble, honey.
We was getting killed before those white kids came in here.
We can't even get protection from people that's supposed to protect us.
They just as quick to shoot us as anybody else.
Mississippi lied to my mom 40 years ago.
And it took her only son and my friend David Ridge from Canada to come out and say, Mississippi, you are still fucking lying.
The Klan was a terrorist organization back in the 60s.
And they had a lot of power because people were afraid of them.
And people are not afraid of them anymore.
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