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Jun 2020
40m 19s

The Long Road to Freedom

NBC NEWS
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Two Tulsa, Oklahoma brothers fight for more than 20 years to prove their innocence after they were each wrongfully convicted for separate murders. Craig Melvin reports. Originally aired on NBC on June 19, 2020. 
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