re: #177 Backwoods_Sleuth

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This reminds me of a scene in the documentary Freedom Riders. John Seigenthaler (special assistant to RFK) is featured in the doc as he was the administration’s point man for the Freedom Riders. In the doc, Seigenthaler talks about getting a call from RFK, after the first wave of riders, asking him who the hell was Diane Nash. Nash was an organizer for the second wave of riders. Seigenthaler was tasked with calling her to talk her out of the second wave, telling her people were going to get killed. She responded that she (and the riders) knew and that had all prepared their wills the night before. I use this doc in my teaching so I’ve seen him describe this many times. It brings tears to my eyes every damn time. College students writing their wills.

If you’ve not seen the documentary, it’s very good.