The speaker discusses their fascination with footnotes and how they stumbled upon a mysterious footnote in a criminal justice paper that took them on a journey to a small town in Alabama. They express their curiosity and request someone to read the footnote for them.
At the end of a forgotten study of convicted murderers, the author left a devastating footnote. We travel to an old plantation house outside Montgomery Alabama to hear his story — and what it tells us about American gun violence.