Wright Thompson “The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi”
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“Power of persuasion.“ Chatter rolls with Claude, David, Torie, and our favorite writer/author/entrepreneur Michael Croley.  Claude’s going all in on the horses. Mike, David, Claude, and Torie (not her really) break down the chaos of NIL in college sports.   Wright Thompson zooms in to share “The Barn,” his truly groundbreaking work on the 1955 murder of Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi.  Growing up 23 miles from the site of the killing, Thompson revisits the murder, the decades long cover up, and his own past.  
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