He was 17, I was 18, we kind of looked at Jesse and called him slow, today you'd call him...
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Jerome Turner:
[addressing the Black Student Union]
He was 17, I was 18, we kind of looked at Jesse and called him slow, today you'd call him mentally retarded. They claimed Jesse raped and murdered a white woman by the name Lucy Fryer. They put Jesse on trial, and he was convicted by an all-white jury, after they deliberated for only *four* minutes.
[students gasp]
Jerome Turner:
... I was working across the street at the shoeshine parlor, and after the verdict, the mob grabbed Jesse, put a chain around his neck and dragged him out of the courthouse. I knew I had to hide... where I was, the shoe parlor had a window up in the attic, and I could see the crowd, they marched Jesse through the streets, they stabbed him, and beat him, and finally in a bloody heap, they held him down in the street - and cut off his testicles.
[students exclaim in horror]
Jerome Turner:
... Police and city officials were out there watching him, they cut off his fingers, and threw coal oil all over his body. They lit a bonfire, and raised and lowered him over these flames over and over, and over again... The man, a photographer by the name of Gildersleeve, he came and took pictures of the whole thing, those pictures were later sold as postcards.
[students gasp as others hold up large copies of the photos]
Transcript
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He was 17
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I was 18
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We kind of looked at Jesse and called him slow
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LIGHT LAUGHTER
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Today
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you'd call him mentally retarded
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They claimed Jesse
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raped and murdered a white woman
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by the name of Lucy Fryer
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They put Jesse on trial
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and he was convicted by an all white jury
Clip duration: 36 seconds
Views: 163
Timestamp in movie: 01h 33m 36s
Uploaded: 20 February, 2022
Genres: comedy, crime, drama, history
Summary: Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.
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00:16 And what if someone offers you a marijuana cigarette
00:15 KWAME TURE Black Power also means that we must unite
00:17 It takes time to become free of the lies
00:09 Imperial tax to become a member
00:36 Ron Stallworth are you for the revolution
00:10 Hey Hey
00:37 We have limited time so I'll be quick
00:11 Arm yourself brother
00:09 Getting pretty chummy with her huh
00:11 Ron I'm transferring you to Intelligence
00:09 Chief some of us can speak King's English
00:06 Can you do that I believe we can
00:09 Yeah they want a black man to join the Ku Klux Klan
00:15 When we dropped Brother Kwame off at the airport
00:05 Are you down for the liberation of black people
00:08 I got a serious question for you
00:09 You're coming to Colorado Springs sir
00:40 My brothers in Christ
00:18 Let me tell you both something
00:07 You know they say two Afros that touch together