{"id":16441,"date":"2021-02-04T16:11:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T00:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/?p=16441"},"modified":"2021-02-04T16:13:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T00:13:00","slug":"the-lynching-of-thomas-finch-reveal-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/the-lynching-of-thomas-finch-reveal-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"The lynching of Thomas Finch \u2022 Reveal Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/revealnews.org\/episodes\/the-lynching-of-thomas-finch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16443 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/119\/2021\/02\/lynching3-740x481-1-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a>In 1936, an African American man named Thomas Finch was shot and killed by an Atlanta police officer who later became leader of the Ku Klux Klan. Very little was known publicly about Finch\u2019s death until his name appeared at a new memorial to the victims of lynching. In our first story, Stephannie Stokes of WABE investigates what really happened more than 80 years ago and why the city of Atlanta and its police force never have recognized the case.<\/p>\n<p>Then we revisit a story from Radio Diaries about the execution of Willie McGee, who was put to death in Mississippi\u2019s traveling electric chair. Years later, his granddaughter went searching for the truth. The case has been called a real-life \u201cTo Kill a Mockingbird.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/revealnews.org\/episodes\/the-lynching-of-thomas-finch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>Listen to the podcast<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1936, an African American man named Thomas Finch was shot and killed by an Atlanta police officer who later became leader of the Ku Klux Klan. Very little was&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/the-lynching-of-thomas-finch-reveal-podcast\/\">Continue Reading<span> The lynching of Thomas Finch \u2022 Reveal Podcast<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monres","category-podcast-episodes"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-19 18:25:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16444,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16441\/revisions\/16444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}