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Sep 2023
38m 7s

Guns Part 5: The Footnote

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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.

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