Willie McGee and the Traveling Electric Chair
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Willie McGee and the Traveling Electric Chair
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Summary
This episode includes topics and archival audio that some people will find disturbing.
Seventy-five years ago, on the night of May 7th, 1951, close to a thousand people gathered around the courthouse in the small town of Laurel, Mississippi. They came to witness an execution. Willie McGee was a young Black man who had been accused of raping a white woman and sentenced to death.
Six decades later, Bridgette McGee-Robinson teamed up with Radio Diaries to find the truth about what happened to her grandfather.
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