CLASSIC: Ernest Withers: Civil Rights Hero, FBI Spy
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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The FBI's Investigation of Ernest Withers
Ernest Withers had over the course of his work with the FBI several, we call them close calls, right? Yeah. One of the questions that we had was a what if scenario, what would have happened had he been caught or exposed? I think he would have been viewed quite possibly as a traitor at that point. You know, there were a number of people who were working with the Memphis Police Department, which worked very closely with the FBI there in a lot of these investigations and they were found out.
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