KAREN: IN KEENE ON THE DAY OF
JONATHAN DANIELS' MURDER, HIS
BEST FRIEND BOB PERRY RAN INTO
JONATHAN'S MOTHER, WHO WAS
CELEBRATING HER BIRTHDAY AT A
LOCAL RESTAURANT.
BOB: SHE HADN'T HEARD FROM HIM.
SHE WAS VERY WORRIED.
JOHN NEVER FORGOT HER BIRTHDAY.
KAREN: ON THE WAY HOME, BOB
AND THE WORLD LEARNED JONATHAN
WAS DEAD.
BOB: IF YOUR LAST WISH IN LIFE
IS, I WANT TO HAVE LEFT THE
PLACE BETTER OFF THAN WHAT I
FOUND IT, HE CERTAINLY DID.
KAREN: HUNDREDS OF MOURNERS
POURED INTO ST. JAMES EPISCOPAL
CHURCH FOR JONATHAN'S FUNERAL.
RUBY SALES KEPT HER HEAD LOW.
RUBY: THAT FUNERAL WAS VERY HARD
FOR ME BECAUSE JONATHAN WAS AN
ONLY SON AND SHE ONLY HAD TWO
CHILDREN, SO YOU CAN IMAGINE HOW
I FELT WHEN I SAW HIS MOTHER'S
GRIEF.
I FELT MOMENTARILY DEEPLY
SADDENED AND, TO SOME DEGREE,
SLIGHTLY GUILTY.
KAREN: JONATHAN FOUGHT HIS
ENTIRE SHORT LIFE FOR FREEDOM
AND JUSTICE.
HIS ACTIVISM ACTUALLY BEGAN LONG
BEFORE HE WAS ENTRENCHED IN
ALABAMA.
50 YEARS AFTER JONATHAN WAS
KILLED, THIS PHOTO SURFACES,
TAKEN A FEW FEET FROM MARTIN
LUTHER KING AS HE DELIVERS HIS
ICONIC SPEECH DURING THE MARCH
ON WASHINGTON IN 1963.
>> WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE
SELF-EVIDENT, THAT ALL MEN ARE
CREATED EQUAL.
KAREN: FRIENDS ADAMANT THE MAN
IN THE CLERICAL COLLAR HOLDING A
SIGN IS JONATHAN.
OTHERS, DOUBTFUL.
YOU SEE, JONATHAN WASN'T
AUTHORIZED TO WEAR A PRIEST'S
COLLAR AS HE HADN'T YET ENTERED
THE SEMINARY.
RICH: IT WOULD DEFINITELY HAVE
BEEN AGAINST ANY KIND OF
REGULATION AT THE DIVINITY
SCHOOL FOR JONATHAN TO BE
WEARING A PRIEST COLLAR AT THAT
POINT IN HIS LIFE.
IN FACT, HE MAY NOT HAVE BEEN
ADMITTED TO THE SCHOOL IF THEY
HAD FOUND THAT HE HAD DONE THAT.
KAREN: THE AUTHORS OF "BLOOD
BROTHER," SANDRA AND RICH
WALLACE, DETERMINED TO SOLVE THE
MYSTERY, WORKING WITH A FACIAL
FORENSICS EXPERT.
RICH: SHE ANALYZED ALL OF THE
PHOTOS IN DEPTH AND DETERMINED
UNLESS JONATHAN HAD A TWIN
BROTHER, THIS WAS HIM.
KAREN: PROVING JONATHAN'S
INTEREST IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS
MOVEMENT STARTED TWO YEARS
EARLIER THAN PREVIOUSLY KNOWN.
GOOD DETECTIVE WORK ALSO LED TO
PHOTOS FROM JONATHAN'S OWN
CAMERA, THE PICTURES DEVELOPED
AFTER HE WAS KILLED.
SANDRA: WE HAD DOZENS AND DOZENS
OF PHOTOS THAT JONATHAN TOOK OF
-- TOOK.
KAREN: JONATHAN'S PICTURES
HELPED THE WALLACES INCLUDE A
NARRATIVE THAT HAD BEEN MISSING
-- THE VOICE OF YOUNG PEOPLE,
NOT OLD ENOUGH TO VOTE, THEY
BECAME THE COURAGE FOR THEIR
PARENTS.
SANDRA: WHEN THEY WENT TO
REGISTER TO VOTE, THEY WERE MET
BY A BULLY CLUB WIELDING SHERIFF
WHO INTIMIDATED THEM.
IF THEY MADE IT INSIDE, THEY HAD
TO TAKE WHAT WAS CALLED A
LITERACY TEST, WHICH MEANT THEY
HAD TO KNOW COMPLETELY
EVERYTHING IN THE U.S.
CONSTITUTION, EVERYTHING IN THE
STATE CONSTITUTION.
AND IF THEY GOT ALL OF THOSE
QUESTIONS RIGHT, THERE WERE
IMPOSSIBLE QUESTIONS IN ADDITION
TO THAT, LIKE HOW MUCH WATER IS
IN THE ALABAMA RIVER?
KAREN: WHEN JONATHAN ARRIVED IN
LOWNDES COUNTY, NO AFRICAN
-AMERICANS WERE REGISTERED TO
VOTE.
BY THE TIME HE DIED, 1000 HAD
SIGNED UP.
[BELLS]
KAREN: THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
DECLARED JONATHAN A SAINT IN
1991.
HE'S RECOGNIZED AT CANTERBURY
CATHEDRAL IN ENGLAND, NEAR A
SHRINE TO THOMAS BECKETT, THE
ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY
MURDERED IN THE CATHEDRAL.
HERE, JUST FEET FROM THE TRINITY
CHAPEL, YOU'LL FIND A TRIBUTE TO
JONATHAN, ALONG WITH MARTIN
LUTHER KING, IN THE CHAPEL OF
SAINTS AND MARTYRS.
THEY ARE THE ONLY TWO 20TH
CENTURY AMERICANS HONORED HERE.
RUBY: NOBODY WAS CONSCIOUS OF
WANTING TO FIT INTO A SMALL BOX
CALLED HISTORY.
WE WERE JUST DOING OUR WORK.
KAREN: MORE THAN A HALF-CENTURY
CENTURY AFTER HIS DEATH,
JONATHAN DANIELS' MISSION IS
STILL RELEVANT TODAY.
IN THE WORDS OF HIS LONG-AGO
SERMON, MORE SOULS MUST BE
REACHED.
RUBY: ♪ YOU WANT YOUR FREEDOM?
CERTAINLY, LORD
CERTAINLY, CERTAINLY, CERTAINLY
LORD ♪
KAREN: JONATHAN DANIELS WAS THE
FOURTH WHITE CIVIL RIGHTS WORKER
MURDERED IN ALABAMA IN 1965.
AFTER HIS DEATH, HIS MOTHER
JOINED A GROUP THAT FILED A
LAWSUIT AGAINST THE SOUTHERN
JUSTICE SYSTEM AND WON.
THAT LANDMARK RULING ALLOWED
BLACKS AND WOMEN TO SERVE ON
JURIES.
I'M KAREN MEYERS.
THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.
HAVE A GREAT NIGHT.
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