Political Rewind: Author, anchor John Pruitt documents a Klan-involved murder in "Tell It True"
Friday on Political Rewind: In 1964, two Klansmen killed Lt. Col. Lemuel Penn, a Black veteran, near the Broad River Bridge in Athens. John Pruitt, then a 22-year-old cameraman for WSB-TV, covered the case. He documents that experience in his novel "Tell It True."\n\nThe panel\nJohn Pruitt, former WSB anchor and author, "Tell It True"\nJim Galloway, @JimJournalist, former columnist, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution\n\nTimestamps\n0:00 - Introductions \n1:15 - A look at where Herschel Walker\u2019s campaign stands after a bombshell week of scandals\n8:00 - Longtime anchorman John Pruitt joins the panel, talks early career\n14:00 - John Pruitt talks fiction and creating new circumstances\n18:54 - How did Atlanta become a destination in the South?\n23:00 - How do you balance changing political movements in a balanced way? \n32:00 - Talking about how technology has changed in TV news\n44:06 - Talking unsworn statement law in Georgia\n47:00 - Transitioning from journalist to author \n51:00 - Making history with legendary anchorwoman Monica Kaufman Pearson \n\nPlease be sure to download our newsletter: www.gpb.org/newsletters. And subscribe, follow and rate this show wherever podcasts are found.