NPR's 'White Lies' Investigates Civil Rights Cold Case – And Why It Was Never Solved

In 1965 the Rev. James Reeb was attacked and savagely beaten on the
streets of Selma, Alabama. Days later, Reeb died of head injuries
in a Birmingham hospital. Three white men were tried for the murder
of the white Unitarian minister from Boston. All were ultimately
acquitted, and no one was ever convicted. More than 50 years later,
Alabama journalists Andrew Beck Grace and Chip Brantley returned to
that cold case. The details they discovered, about the murder and
how the South remembers its history, are the subject of NPR's new
podcast, White Lies . Grace and Brantley joined On Second Thought
from WBHM in Birmingham.