I dig into this civil rights cold case in “A Death Ruled ‘Justifiable’: The Killing of #JohnWesleyWilder,” my contribution to “Still Paying the Price: #Reparations in Real Terms,” a new #podcast series from #LWCStudios. I reported, produced and wrote the episode, which was made in partnership with the nonprofit newsroom #TypeInvestigations and with support from the #FundForInvestigativeJournalism. https://benlog.net/2023/07/24/podcast-a-death-ruled-justifiable-the-killing-of-john-wesley-wilder 7/7
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PODCAST: A Death Ruled “Justifiable”: The Killing of John Wesley Wilder - benlog
In July 1965, police officer Edward Alton Nugent shot and killed John Wesley Wilder, a Black man, outside a cafe in Ruston, Louisiana. Local authorities quickly ruled it a justifiable homicide. But in 2008, legislation introduced by Congressman John Lewis, gave hope to families seeking justice for racially motivated homicides prior to 1970. Nugent, the shooter, is still alive, and new evidence has emerged.
Stay tuned for “A Death Ruled ‘Justifiable’: The Killing of #JohnWesleyWilder,” my contribution to “Still Paying the Price: #Reparations in Real Terms,” a new #podcast series from #LWCStudios, which drops tomorrow night. A tiny snippet of it is at 1:13 in the trailer.
https://still-paying-the-price.simplecast.com/episodes/introducing-still-paying-the-price
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Introducing -- Still Paying the Price: Reparations in Real Terms | Still Paying the Price: Reparations in Real Terms
Reparations are due to the descendants of enslaved Africans. The remaining questions are whom to pay and how. This 14-part original series from Peabody-nominated LWC Studios asks key questions of people who have the experience and knowledge to help us understand why we cannot begin to heal as a country without addressing the question of who receives reparations and how.
Ben Greenberg