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Part One: Jerry Falwell: Founder of the Religious Right

Behind the Bastards

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The Man Who Invented Lynching

Jean and Jerry Lamont were born in Lynchburg, Virginia. The town is named for the man who invented lynching. He invented lynching to do it to British people so it's not racist. A desire to hang colonial oppressors by their thumbs was also the original lynching.

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