The Ongoing Fight for Truth

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But the older two had settled in to watch a movie after the president's address to the nation ended . Their mother said they could stay up until their father got home . They heard it happen . They knew what they'd heard through the open windows , the unmistakable sound of their father's car pulling into the driveway , and then two loud , sharp sounds The car door slamming shut and a gunshot . Rena and Darryl, both just nine years old, grabbed their baby brother and stayed low below the windows , just like their father taught them . He'd trained them well . They knew what to do in an emergency. He'd taught them to drop low to the floor, army crawl into the bathroom, and hide in the big cast iron bathtub if they ever heard gunshots or explosions . They'd be safe in there . And they drilled that until they got it right, practicing how to crawl through the house with their baby brother in tow , making sure they could get the toddler safely into the tub , in case the worst happened . He'd made a game of it, tried to make it fun , tried to make it a little less terrifying , but the house had been firebombed before. That night in June , they executed the drill flawlessly . They put their baby brother in the bathtub , but when they heard their mother's screams, the two older children ran to her side . She was standing in the driveway in a growing pool of her husband's blood . Medger Evers was murdered by a white supremacist on june twelfth, nineteen sixty three . In twenty twenty, the Medger and Merley Evers home in Jackson, Mississippi was acquired by the National Park Service and designated as a national monument . Visitors could stand on the spot where a clansman killed a civil rights activist in his own driveway . And in twenty twenty five , the president signed an executive order aimed to force Park Rangers to stop calling the murderer a racist . I'm M olly Conger and this is Weird Little Guys Byron Del Beckwith was a racist . I mean, let's just get that out of the way right here at the top . Byron de la Beckwith shot and killed Medgar Evers , and Byron Del Beckwith wouldn't even argue with you about whether he was a racist . He was proud of it That fact is just not something any reasonable person thinks is of for debate. When he was arrested in nineteen sixty three, the local newspaper in Greenwood, Mississippi ran a front page story with the headline , He is Friendly but Outspoken Underneath a picture of Dilabwiff, it wasn't his mugshot . An even fat newspaper described him as a die hard segregationist and quote , a man who hated negroes . So if you want to quibble about whether the man was a racist , you're falling behind the editor of the Greenwood Commonwealth in nineteen sixty three . But we'll get to Byron . We've got plenty of time. He's been dead for twenty five years. He's not going anywhere. But I was thinking about him this week . It's just an incredibly strange coincidence that I happened to be thinking about Byron Delbeck onw jithune twelf th because he did murder Medgrevers on that date in nineteen sixty three . But I happened to be thinking about him that day, not because I knew the anniversary , but because that's the day a federal judge in Massachusetts granted an injunction ordering the Department of the Interior and the National Park Service to stop implementing one of the president's deranged executive orders . Judge Angel Kelly's order also requires the federal government to restore and reinstall all interpretive materials, so signs, brochures, posters, etc that were removed, altered or damaged over the last year as part of the department's compliance with Executive Order one four two five three . Executive Order one four two five three with the very normal title Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History was signed in March of twenty twenty five . It's okay if you don't remember that one. He was churning those bad boys out at a pretty spectacular pace in the first few months of his second term . I mean he spent half the afternoon the day he took office signing executive orders . There were twenty six of them on day one . He issued a hundred forty and three executive orders in just the first hundred days last year , and a total of two hundred and twenty five in the year twenty twenty five , and another fifty or so far this year . I mean, the man loves to sign things . And they really run the gamut . I mean, we're talking about everything trying to end birthright citizenship , restricting all refugee programs to the point that they only admit white South Africans . Pulling out of the World Health Organization and the Paris Climate Accord, spinning up the short lived but disastrous Department of Government Efficiency and designating Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations . And sometimes it's just like stuff he was thinking about , and I guess he wanted someone to take his picture while he thought about it ? I mean, just really petty stuff . There were several separate executive orders just targeting specific law firms he was upset with for personal reas ons . There have been five different executive orders related to the availability of the TikTok app on your smartphone . In January of this year, he signed something called celebrating American greatness with American Motor Racing . And it directed the Department of the Interior to find a suitable route through DC for a street race for his big fourth of July part . You just never know what you're going to get . The day before he signed the executive order that started up the whole DOG piss , he signed one to make federal agencies stop buying paper straws . We're going back to plastic straws. These things don't work . I've had them many times. And on occasion, they break , they explode . If something's hot, they don't last very long, like a matter of minutes , sometimes a matter of seconds, it's a ridiculous situation. So we're going back to plastic straws. I think it's okay . And I don't think that plastics going to affect a shark very much as they're eating as they're munching their way through the ocean. . Thank you, sir. Next, we have a full and unconditional pardon for former Governor Rob L ugoyevich of the State of Illinois . You get the idea . But at the end of March of twenty twenty five, he signed his one hundred seventh Executive order that year , ordering the Department of the Interior to root out the corrosive ideology of history , I guess . The order begins, quote , Over the past decade, Americans have witnessed a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our nation's history , replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth. This revisionist movement seeks to undermine the remarkable achievements of the United States by casting its founding principles and historical milestones in a negative light . Under this historical revision, our nation's unparalleled legacy of advancing liberty, individual rights and human happiness is reconstructed as inherently racist, sexist, oppressive, or otherwise irredeemably flawed. Rather than fostering unity and a deeper understanding of our shared past , the widespread effort to rewrite history deepens societal divides and fosters a sense of national shame , disregarding the progress America has made and the ideals that continue to inspire millions around the globe. The order aims to root out divisive language , stuff that , quote, portrays American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive . You know, stuff like the historical fact of chattel slavery or the genocide of indigenous peoples , or the concept of racism in general . It was in large part aimed specifically at undoing any changes made to public monuments, memorials, statues, and markers during the Biden administration , a time that did see some pretty targeted changes when it came to public memory . But it also tasked the Secretary of Inter ior with ensuring that all public monuments, memorials, statues, markers, or similar properties within the Department of Interior's jurisdiction do not contain descriptions, depictions, or other content that inappropriately disparage Americans , past or living , including persons living in colonial times , and instead focus on the greatness of the achievements and progress of the American people , or with respect to natural features, the beauty, abundance, and grandeur of the American landscape. At the end of may twenty twenty five, two months after the executive order was signed, Secretary of the Interior Doug Bergam signed an order directing department employees to begin implementing the executive order . According to Bergam's order , all bureaus within the Department of the Interior, so that includes the National Park Service , had ninety days to review all public facing properties in their jurisdiction for inappropriate material . And within another thirty days after that , they were to remove any content that didn't adequately focus on America's greatness . And again, this language that I've read to you is really all the direction they were given . It's very vague . There wasn't some sort of complex rubric for determining what is disparaging to past Americans . So , given these vague directions , between June and September of twenty twenty five , National Park Service employees conducted this required review . Every National Park Service site in the country submitted to the best of their ability . And in March of this year , an anonymous group of concerned civil servant s leaked that entire database Thousands of files submitted by National Park Service employees across hundreds of locations all over the country , all of it was posted onl ine . And it's an interesting picture . A lot of people who work for the National Park Service are incredibly passionate about what they do . They do it because they love it. They're committed to the sites where they work. They're committed to telling these stories . But not all of them . And at the end of the day , a job is a job, and even the most passionate civil servant has to pay the rent . And they just didn't want to get fired. The submissions are anonymous , at least in the Leach database. So you don't really know anything about the people who filled out some form at work one day . But you can kind of get a sense of the various states of mind that these people might have been in when they wrote these submissions . They had to obey the order . They had to submit a report of any part content that could be interpreted as disparaging American greatness or whatever . But some of the submissions are really bare minimum . Somebody checking a box that they did it. They did enough to not get fired, but they're clearly not excited about participating in this ideological project . You know, they'll take a picture of the sign and say this should be reviewed , but there's no commentary . Others submissions are clearly pleased for permission to keep educating the public . And some of them , more than I would have liked , show someone who is a little too eager to comply , really going above and beyond to suggest ways that they can erase any uncomfortable history and comply with this order to effectively produce propaganda . Park employees at the Selmatu Montgomery National Historic Trail wrote of their exhibits quote , While these statements are historically accurate and supported by firsthand accounts , this information may be perceived as disparaging by individuals who are less familiar with the history of the civil rights movement . Now that top level statement does come across as some form of resistance in the way that these bureaucratic sort of things can be , but the submitted documentation meticulously highlights material that should be removed under the order . On the wall panel about the murder of Viola Luzzo, the submission highlights the phrase A car full of white clansmen from Birmingham targeted the pair and pursued them at high speed . They eventually overtook the oldsmobile and fired two shots at misses Liuzo's head . She died instantly. That is the sentence about her murder that is flagged for removal . The sentence where she's actually murdered . I guess it's disparaging to the clansmen to say they shot this woman in the head . In the pamphlet about the march to Montgomery, they flagged for removal mention of the murder of Jimmy Lee Jackson , a young black man killed by a state trooper . But Jackson's murder was the catalyst that inspired the march from Selma to Mont gomery in the first place . You can't have an exhibit about the march from Selma to Montgomery without talking about the young black man who was peacefully marching for the right to vote when he was beaten by a mob and then shot and killed by a police officer who later was convicted for that killing. He was trying to stop a state trooper from beating his eighty two year old grandfather to death with a club when they shot him . The same pamphlet flags for removal, every mention of James Rebe , the Unitarian minister who was in town for the march when he was beaten to death by a white mob. It also flags for removal, every mention of Jonathan Daniels, the seminarian who was shot and killed in Alabama later that same summer when he took a shotgun blast to save the life of Ruby Sales , an organizer with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee . If you can't talk about who was bleeding on Bloody Sunday , if you can't talk about why the march happened in the first place, if you can't mention the cl an, if you can't talk about police violence or the people who were martyred fighting for civil rights in Alabama in nineteen sixty five , just scrap the whole brochure at that point . Because what does it even say if you cut that out ? What is the story you're trying to tell if you have to scrub it so clean all the words are gone ? At the Emmett Till and Mamie Mobile Till National Monument in Mississippi , staff flagged the entire display as a possible violation of the order . But in their submission, they warned that without content that could be deemed a violation of the order , the site quote would be almost completely devoid of interpretation . How can you tell the story of Emmett Till if you aren't allowed to disparage any American . If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. It's a fine adage if you're giving advice to an incorrigible gossip. But it's a terrible direction for writing an educational display about lynching . To comply with this executive order , the exhibit would have to be completely blank . You wouldn't be able to talk about Emmett Till at all . Buy more, save more at Scandinavian Designs Furniture this fourth of July. For a limited time, save two hundred dollars instantly for every thousand dollars you spend in store. It's the perfect way to complete your look for less or splurge on your dream piece from living room to bedroom. Stop by a local showroom or shop online at scandavian designs. com Scandinavian designs , we make it simple. You make it home . In the moment, it felt like it was going on forever. I didn't think I was gonna live . I was terrified . There was no anything inside those eyes. They turned black . It scared the hell out of me . That was your first murder case. Yes, sir. It's fair to say this was the biggest case of your career? Yes, sir. Rape and murder chung is probably a challenge. Bad he gets. I would think so People wake up. I'm the one that saw the murder take place by Crema and DePippo. Anthony de Pippo showed no signs of remorse , appearing unfazed after being sentenced to the maximum . I said I'm not guilty, I'll take it to the grave. Listen to the Devil's Quarry on the IHERT Radio app , Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts . 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You can talk about Martin Luther King Jr overcoming . You just can't talk about what he overcame . So you end up telling a story that makes no sense . At the Harper's Ferry National Historic Park , employees flagged facts that might be offensive . On a pamphlet for a Civil War battlefield tour, the submitted copy highlights areas of concern a text box containing quotes from historical figures and documents about the cause of the Civil War . The text in the highlighted portion says , Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery . And that is a direct quote from the Mississippi Declaration of Secession Another highlighted quote from Alexander Stevens, the vice president of the Confederate States of America reads slavery was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution . The Parks employee who flagged the brochure wrote that the quotes are historically acc urate , but quote is this considered cherry picking and denigrating southerners ? If it needs to be changed, we can just remove this text box. In another brochure at Harper's Ferry, the unnamed employees concerned that language about the murder of one of John Brown's men might denigrate the townspeople . The language in question is about how the mob of people who killed William Thompson threw his body in a river and then used his corpse or target practice . Again , that's just a thing that happened . I don't know that you're denigrating the murderous mob by saying what they did I do wish I knew who authored this particular submission because I need to know what goes on in the mind of the park's employee who again works at the Harper's Ferry National Historic Park . What is going on in this person's mind when they wrote this about a handout with a timeline of the life of John Brown Quote This document states A mob murdered an abolitionist Does this denigrate the murderers? We can reword to abolitionist editor Elijah Lovejoy was murdered for his views . Does this denigrate the murderer s . What a phenomenal question . The same employee flagged language on a handout with a timeline of general facts about the Civil war . From the submission , april fifteenth, eighteen sixty one, President Lincoln calls for seventy five thousand volunteers to put down the rebellion . And then as commentary, the employee has added is rebellion considered acceptable ? Could be changed to calls for volunteers to respond ? Is rebellion considered acceptable. We are talking about the Civil War . President Lincoln wasn't just asking for volunteers . This is an explicit reference to Proclamation eighty , which was President Lincoln's invocation of the Militia Act after the Battle of Fort Sumter, when the militia of a state in rebellion attacked the United States military . At the time, the Militia Act allowed the president to call up volunteers to put down insurrection . Even if this is your first day on Earth and you don't already know what happened after that , you can keep reading that very same handout to find out . There was a civil war . You can call it a rebellion. It was the civil war . At Grand Titan National Park, staff offered to put a sticker over the portion of the exhibit about the Marias Massacre , the murder of nearly two hundred pagan blackfeet people in eighteen seventy . It was a sneak attack on a camp of mostly women and children , many of whom were sick with smallpox There were almost no able bodied men at the camp , and the United States Army shot sick sleeping children and then burned their bodies . The exhibit itself was already generous to the guys who committed the massacre . The heading on the panel reads How do we acknowledge the good and bad of a historic figure ? And it starts by listing the positive accomplishments of Gustavus Cheni Done . Of the hundreds of signs that Park staff suggested for removal , this is one of a relatively small number that is confirmed to have been entirely removed . The offending text appears to have been a rather recent edition . In twenty twenty two, Mount Done, a mountain peak inside Yellowstone National Park , was officially renamed First People's Mountain , and that appears to have been the cataly st for the recontextualizing of Don's legacy in these exhibits at Grand Titan . The removed text read in part in january eighteen seventy, Don participated in what is now known as the Mariah Massacre, at which the U. S. Army killed over one hundred and seventy pagan blackfeet, including many women, elders , and children. Done wrote fondly about this att and bragged about it for the rest of his life. I don't understand how you could say that that is text that denigrates an American when all it says is a historical fact that this man was proud of until the day he died. It's not just racism, genocide, and slavery that are off limits . At the Cape Patters National Seasure, employees flagged language about light pollution, shoreline erosion, sea level rise, and climate change as possible violations of the directive as they might quote, reduce the focus on the grandeur, beauty, and abundance. At Biscayne National Park in Florida, the submission flags an educational display about the dangers of littering and how trash ends up in the ocean and then washes up on the shore , because that too emphasizes matters unrelated to the beauty abundance or grandeur At Glacier National Park, an employee reported that the contracted party that provides concessions at one of their sites had decor that includes the phrase climate change affects national parks and the treasures they protect . This was flagged as a possible violation . At the Theodore Roosevelt National Park, an employee suggested removing a page about light and noise pollution from an activity book for children and flagged language about habitat loss due to agriculture and development . At the Cane River Creole National Historical Park in Louisiana, the submission offers to remove this sentence The National Park Service is committed to preserving and sharing an inclusive story of America from all materials made available to the public . And that kind of sums it up, doesn't it? The order prohibits preserving and sharing an inclusive story of America . The goal is not to share history , but to make up a new, better, cleaner, brighter, wider story of America . To enshrine as fact things like the version of the first Thanksgiving you learned from a coloring book page in the third grade . Everyone was happy to be colonized. No one was sad about slavery . There's never been a genocide . And America will still be the most beautiful country on Earth even after we've stripped mined and fracked every square inch of the natural landscape . But what actually got removed ? This leaked database contains the responses submitted by every National Park Service site . Remember, Trump signed the executive order in March of twenty twenty five , and in that order, he directed Interior Secretary Doug Bergam to make a plan to do this. So Bergam in turn wrote an order in May directing everyone in the Department of the Interior to make a plan within their own bureaus to compile possible violations and start making a plan to remove them. And this database seems to be about as far as they got. This is just the list of possible violations . Implementation and follow through is , thankfully , not really anyone's strong suit . It is surprisingly difficult to say with any certainty what got changed or removed as a result of this order . A project called Save Our Signs sprang up in an attempt to build an archive of all existing national park signs, plaques, exhibits, and materials , both as an actual archive of that material that could potentially be lost , and as a means to track any changes that came as a result of this order. The site is a collaborative effort run by librarians, public historians, and data scientists, and they collect submissions of photos of national park material s . According to data compiled by Save our Science , there is some degree of confirmation for at least fifty nine instances of censorship or removal of park materials , and some of those removals have already been restored . And that's a far cry from the thousands of submissions in the leaked database, flagging items for review and possible removal . The majority of the confirmed alterations were from Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia , and all of those materials have already been ordered to be restored to their original condition after the city of Philadelphia sued Doug Bergam earlier this year . But again, this is just one source of largely crowd sourced data There could be countless other instances of material that has been altered , we just don't know . Buy more , save more at Scandinavian Designs Furniture this fourth of July . For a limited time, save two hundred dollars instantly for every thousand dollars you spend in store. It's the perfect way to complete your look for less or splurge on your dream piece from living room to bedroom . Stop by a local showroom or shop online at scandavian designs dot com Scandinavian designs, we make it simple . You make it home In the moment, it felt like it was going on forever. I didn't think I was gonna live . I was terrified . There was no anything inside those eyes. They turned black . It scared the hell out of me. That was your first murder case. Yes, sir. It's fair to say this was the biggest case of your career? Yes, sir. Rapid murder for Chung's twelve year old challenge against. I think so. People wake up. I'm the one that saw the murder take place by Creme and DePippo. Anthony DePippo showed no signs of remorse appear,ing unfazed after being sentenced to the maximum. I said I'm not guilty, I'll take it to the grave . Listen to thevil De'sarry Q onu the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts . And to hear the Devil's Quarry ad free with exclusive content , subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcast s . Hey, I'm Hoda Cottbe, host of the podcast, Joy one hundred one with Hodacotby. Together, we're going to have meaningful conversations with the world's most fascinating people. Like when actress Olivia Munn shared how she overcame fierce health challenges. I've gone through breast cancer and helped my mother through breast cancer and that was more difficult. There's a lot of people who understand postpartum depression. I was not prepared for postpartum anxiety. Listen to Joy one hundred one with Hodacotti on the IHERT radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. June is Black Musicth Mon on, and the Drink Champs podcast, we're speaking with the hottest names in the culture, like Sway Lee. Do you realize how legendary you are? I appreciate that. I'd be seeing it, but I'm like, Master got like so much more to do. Like, France, he dropped like thirtys album. We dropped like five right now. Like that's the rate we got to be going. Yeah, that's a good attitude. You also hear stories from industry legends and hip hop pioneers like Fab five Freddy. I directed one of Nazi's early videos. Which one? One loved. I literally filmed in his apartment in Queensbridge. His moms were still up in that apartment. Naz was just beginning to take off. His pops used to live near me in Harlem. His dad introduced him to a whole lot of you know conscious stuff and he made a young prodigy . No matter the era, Drink Chance brings you the biggest names and the most unfiltered conversations. Listen to Drink Ch fromam theps Black Effect Podcast Network on the IHAR Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. And as slow as the rollout of these changes has been , a federal judge has said it has to stop . After Philadelphia filed their lawsuit to stop the removal of exhibits from the National Historical Park , the National Parks Conservation Association filed a separate lawsuit in February of twenty twenty six . And they're asking the courts to stop all implementation of changes made pursuant to Trump's executive order . Last week, Judge Angel Kelly granted their request for a preliminary injunction . So that doesn't mean the case is over. They haven't won . But for now , the government is prohibited by court order from continuing to implement the restoring truth and sanity to American history order , pending the outcome of this litig ation . Not only that , the order requires that the government put back anything they've already altered, removed, or damaged in the course of implementing the order up to this point . It truly isn't clear from the filings in this case if anyone has a comprehensive list of every actual change that's been made . So I'm curious to see what comes of that in the aftermath of their inevitable failure to comply with this court order. The Department of the Interior has already filed notice that they're appealing this order to the First Circuit Court of App eals . Although at the time I'm writing this, that appeal hasn't actually been filed yet. Why though ? Did any of this make me think of Byron Del Beckwith . You might be asking that if you even remember that's where we started . In the midst of all of this, right around the time these lawsuits were being filed to prevent the implementation of those changes. So back in February of twenty twenty six , Jerry Mitchell, a reporter with Mississippi today , visited the Medger and Murley Evers Home National Monument . And he says when he went to visit , he asked for a brochure , and he was told by an employee that none were available . Speaking on condition of anonymity, one of those employees told Mitchell that new brochures were being printed , and the new brochures did not contain the word racist . Specifically, they did not use the word racist to describe Medger Ever's killer . Those new brochures apparently also removed language about Evers lying in a pool of his own blood after being shot . This initial reporting on possibility of new censored brochures sparked immediate outrage in Mississippi , and this was quickly followed by denials from the National Park Service . The old brochures were brought back out . No new brochures ever showed up . And a vague statement from the National Park Service seemed to deny that the executive order had anything to do with planned edits to those materials . In follow up reporting from Mississippi Today, an employee with the Medger and Merley Ever's Institute claimed to have heard that an order came down from NPS that Park Rangers were no longer allowed to say the word racist while giving tours . I can't find any comment from the National Park Service on the veracity of that claim , although I imagine they would deny it . The Ever's Institute is a nonprofit that's still run by the couple's daughter Rina , and the institute has an active and ongoing relationship with the National Monument, and the current interpretive materials at the site were developed in cooperation with and approved by Rena Evers Everett herself . So if someone who works for her is saying they heard this from NPS , that does have some weight . National Park Service officials can deny having ordered any changes in as many weirdly worded statements as they want to . But their claims don't match what visitors are reporting experiencing at the Evers Home' National M onument this year . Mississippi Today spoke to a number of tourists who have visited the site in January and February of this year , including Michelle Storms, the Executive Director of the ACLU in Washington State . Michelle and her husband visited the monument in January . They took a guided tour with a park ranger , and she says the bulk of the information presented on the tour was just a sort of surface level discussion of Merley Evers accomplishments later in her life . Mississippi Today's Jerry Mitchell quotes her saying it was pretty surreal to listen to that , because there was nothing about Medger Evers being murdered . I thought it was the weirdest thing . So she's saying she took a tour of this site , a guided tour with a national park service park ranger