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CLASSIC: Ernest Withers: Civil Rights Hero, FBI Spy

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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The Hidden History of Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Withers was an informant for Bill Lawrence in the Memphis field office. The extent of his work with Lawrence and the FBI was not the kind of James Bond stuff we would imagine with a secret agent. "He had no need to be, you know, cloak and dagger undercover," he says. His pictures are just overwhelming and very powerful"

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