From NPR. In our final episode of White Lies, we contemplate James Reeb the man. Before the news of Reeb’s death was broadcast across the country and cast him as a martyr, Reeb was a husband, father and trusted friend. We hear Reeb’s own voice, delivering his final sermon, and hear from his wife, Marie,…

From NPR. In Episode 6, we find the fourth man involved in the attack of the Rev. James Reeb, unearthing new facts in this civil rights-era cold case. Three men, Elmer Cook, Stanley Hoggle and Namon "Duck" O’Neal Hoggle, were tried for and acquitted of Reeb’s murder, but NPR’s reporting has now revealed a fourth…

From NPR. In Episode 5, we revisit the 1965 murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson, an unarmed black civil rights activist shot by police in Marion, Ala., after a peaceful protest. On a map in the Atlanta office of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Alabama had long been marked with an "X," indicating a place too…

From NPR. In Episode 4 of White Lies, we find an eyewitness to the attack on the Rev. James Reeb who says she has kept secret for more than 50 years who and what she saw on the night of March 9, 1965. After decades of lies and silence, she finally comes clean. A clearer…

From NPR. In the third episode of White Lies, we investigate the theory that emerged from the defense’s closing argument in the trial for the murder of the Rev. James Reeb: that civil rights activists delayed Reeb’s medical treatment and let him die — or killed Reeb themselves — because the movement needed a white…

From NPR. In the second episode of White Lies, we unravel the story of the events that happened after the Rev. James Reeb’s death: the arrest of three men and the murder trial that followed. In the absence of an official trial transcript, we reconstruct the December 1965 trial using firsthand accounts, news reports and…

From NPR. In 1965, civil rights supporter James Reeb, a white Unitarian minister, was murdered in Selma, Ala. Three men were arrested, tried and acquitted. No one was ever held to account. White Lies INTERACTIVE Visual Narrative: The Murder Of James Reeb And Its Aftermath More than 50 years later, we return to the city…