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The President of the United States went on 60 Minutes last month and claimed that the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017 was fake, a hoax perpetrated by the Southern Poverty Law Center. He's referring to allegations made in the recent indictment against the SPLC that one of their paid informants was a member of the planning chat for the rally. But what does the indictment actually say? And what kind of person snitches for money?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
It's the first ever Weird Little Guys emergency broadcast! A weird little guy has filed a lawsuit against another weird little guy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Molly answers some of your burning questions about important stuff, like a nazi's tuna casserole recipe, who came up with a rhyming phrase about fascist violence, and what kind of cake she's eating this week.Sources:Testa, M. Militant Anti-Fascism: A Hundred Years of Resistance. AK Press, 2015.https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/m-testa-militant-anti-fascism https://socialistworker.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/a-radical-guide-to-antifascism-LR-1.pdf https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/we-should-give-no-quarter-those-seeking-divide-us https://www.thenation.com/podcast/society/ttom-donegan-friedan/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In the final part of the story about Jack Kershaw, we'll talk about his legal career. Before he represented MLK's assassin, before he sculpted a gigantic racist statue out of old bathtubs, he got a law degree from a part time night school program at the YMCA so he could do his part to stop integration.Sources:Phillips, Betsy. Dynamite Nashville: the FBI, the KKK, and the bombers beyond their control. Third Man Books 2021.Houston, Benjamin, et al. “‘We Kept the Discussion at an Adult Level’: Jack Kershaw and the Tennessee Federation for Constitutional Government.” Southern Cultures, vol. 20, no. 4, 2014, pp. 72–88. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/26217566 Graham, Hugh Davis. “Desegregation in Nashville: The Dynamics of Compliance.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 2, 1966, pp. 135–54. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/42622869 McMillen, Neil R. “Organized Resistance to School Desegregation In Tennessee.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 3, 1971, pp. 315–28. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/42623247 Michael J. Henry, Student Display of the Confederate Flag in Public Schools, 33 J.L. & EDUC. 573 (2004).https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2824&context=jled Egerton, Joel. Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashvillehttps://southernspaces.org/2009/walking-history-beginning-school-desegregation-nashville/ https://www.ahcuah.com/lawsuit/federal/melton.htm https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/328/88/1428295/ https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/klanbly-friendly-tennessee-state-becomes-hate-tourist-mecca/ https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/42777957/james-n-mason/ https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/BR/81/897/1821803/ https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/the-fugitives/ https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/clinton-desegregation-crisis/ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/us/nashville-civil-rights-bombings.htmlSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Police in New Jersey arrested a woman found sleeping in her car in a strip mall parking lot after the plates came back registered to a stolen vehicle. Her lawyer, Tennessee segregationist Jack Kershaw, insisted that his client was not only innocent, but said she was telling the truth - she really was a Romanian princess.Sources:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1509995/HRH-Prince-Carol-of-Romania.html https://www.nytimes.com/1979/12/23/archives/new-jersey-weekly-the-princess-and-the-police-once-upon-the.html https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/07/15/Lawsuit-against-princess-dismissed/2985395553600/ https://stiri.botosani.ro/stiri/actualitate/paul-de-romania-mai-are-un-frate-printul-alexandru.htmlSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
After losing his job, an ex-Disney employee tried to get his former employer's attention by hacking in and making strange updates to company files. Original Air Date: 6.5.25Sources:https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69534211/united-states-v-scheuer/https://www.eeoc.gov/what-you-can-expect-after-you-file-chargehttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/us/disney-worker-prison-hacking.htmlSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Decades before he sculpted a Confederate general out of old bathtubs, Jack Kershaw briefly represented his most famous client - Martin Luther King Jr's assassin, James Earl Ray. The relationship soured after Ray discovered his lawyer had pocketed a payment from Playboy magazine.Sources:James McKinley, "Playboy Interview: James Earl Ray," Playboy Magazine, September 1977https://www.nytimes.com/1977/08/09/archives/polygraph-indicates-ray-lied.html https://www.nytimes.com/1977/10/25/archives/james-earl-ray-wants-mark-lane-to-replace-his-tenth-lawyer.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/28/sports/the-barkley-marathons-few-know-how-to-enter-fewer-finish.htmlSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Molly interviews Michael Edison Hayden about his new book, Strange People on the Hill: How Extremism Tore Apart a Small Town. The book is an intimate portrait of what happened in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia after a white nationalist group moved into the castle on the hill.Preorder the book now or buy it anywhere books are sold when it comes out on April 7, 2026 https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/michael-edison-hayden/strange-people-on-the-hill/9781645030607/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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