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Mar 27, 2018 · Withers took Kathy Roop Hunninen’s wedding photos—and secretly funneled scores of pictures and bits of intel about her to the FBI. A former war protestor and civil rights activist, she suffered years of trauma and depression after she lost her federal job in 1986 when reports surfaced of the FBI’s long-running investigation of her as a ...
Feb 28, 2019 · The Double Life of Civil Rights Photographer and FBI Informant Ernest Withers. In “Bluff City,” Preston Lauterbach explores the secret life of Ernest Withers, a civil rights hero who...
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Jan 18, 2019 · Jan. 18, 2019. BLUFF CITY. The Secret Life of Photographer Ernest Withers. By Preston Lauterbach. Illustrated. 339 pp. W.W. Norton & Company. $27.95. When Ernest Withers was a press...
Feb 2, 2023 · It's still not clear why the FBI was monitoring the movements of civil rights activists, but history has shown that then-FBI director J. Edgar Hoover believed King was influenced by communists. However, Withers' motivations are not understood; some think he was in it for the money to support his family of eight children.
Georgette Lizette "Googie" Withers, CBE, AO (12 March 1917 – 15 July 2011) was an English entertainer. She was a dancer and actress, with a lengthy career spanning some nine decades in theatre, film, and television. She was a well-known actress and star of British films during and after the Second World War .
Jan 14, 2023 · Ernest Withers was a legendary photographer. He took over a million photos before his death in 2007. Jackie Robinson, Aretha Franklin, Elvis, even President Richard Nixon, he photographed them all. But it was his photos of the civil rights movement that are his most stunning, most enduring images.
Sep 14, 2010 · September 14, 20103:34 PM ET. By. David Gura. Through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, a journalist for The Commercial Appeal learned that E rnest C. Withers, a Memphis-based...
