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CLASSIC: Ernest Withers: Civil Rights Hero, FBI Spy

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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A Spy in Canaan: How the FBI Used a Famous Photographer to Infiltrate the Civil Rights Movement

CNN's John Sutter has a new book, A Spy in Canaan. He talks about how the FBI used a famous photographer to infiltrate the civil rights movement. The story started back in 1997 when he was covering James Earl Ray's hearings at that time. But it wasn't until years later after Ernest Withers died that I filed a Freedom of Information Act request.

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