Introduction

Al letson of reveal, the podcast from the centr for investigator reporting in p r x makes a pact with his listeners. He made this covenant in a recent seven part series on reveal called mississippi god damn. The ballad of billy joe. It's the story of al's search for the truth around the death of a young black man in Mississippi named billy joi johnson. Al: "I'm not asking the johnsons or anybody else to re live the worst thing that ever happened to them"