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Willie McGee and the Traveling Electric Chair
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:30:40
Publish Date: 2014-02-18 20:05:40
Description:

On the night of May 7th, 1951, in the small town of Laurel, Mississippi, close to a thousand people gathered around the courthouse. They came to witness an execution. Willie McGee was a young black man who had been accused of raping a white woman… and sentenced to death. Six decades later, Bridgette McGee teamed up with Radio Diaries to find the truth about what happened to her grandfather.
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