At one point, Charles threw a polite but persistent young television reporter, Dan Rather, out of the home. “He said he’d be happy to leave the house,” Charles wrote. “But this was a big story, and he was going to be filing reports to CBS News in New York from out on the street.” Right then, Charles understood how important Medgar had become, and after that, he allowed Rather to follow him around, even confiding to Rather his murderous thoughts toward white people, to which Rather, in his Texas twang, replied, “You can’t let yourself do the same thing they did . . . not every white man is like
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