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The William Lynch speech, also known as the Willie Lynch letter, is an address purportedly delivered by a William Lynch (or Willie Lynch) to an audience on the bank of the James River in Virginia in 1712 regarding control of slaves within the colony. [1] In recent years, it has been widely exposed as a hoax. [2] [3]
William Lynch (diplomat) (c. 1730–1785), British Member of Parliament for Canterbury and Minister to Sardinia; William Lynch (Lynch law) (1742–1820), claimed to be the basic cause of the "lynch law" term; William Lynch (Maryland politician) (1788–1857), American politician from Maryland; William A. Lynch (1844–1907), Ohio lawyer and ...
The story of Willie Lynch is mentioned in the film, and passed on from father to son to half-brother. The film holds that the Lynch story is factual although it has been proved to be a modern forgery.
"The Willie Lynch Letter is fake," she explained. "There's absolutely no historical record of this person ever even existing" . "Sojourner Truth never said, 'Ain't I a woman.'
Oct. 7—For more than a century, the mummified remains of an unidentified man lay within a Reading funeral home. The body, that of a man who died in the Berks County jail in 1895, took on a life ...
A sheriff who was dragged from his house and lynched; the only evidence of his alleged crimes was in an account written by a lynch mob member to justify lynching; 130 years later Plummer was posthumously tried; the jury reached a split decision (six to six) and a mistrial was declared. [31] Clubfoot George: Nevada City: Madison: Montana Territory
Willie Geist and Jane Lynch on April 17, 2022. (Nathan Congleton / TODAY) Cheyne will, of course, be among the swarm of fans in the audience on April 24 when “Funny Girl,” which is currently ...
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