{"id":4238,"date":"2010-09-14T17:28:33","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T23:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=4238"},"modified":"2010-09-14T17:41:36","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T23:41:36","slug":"the-exposure-of-ernest-withers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/news\/the-exposure-of-ernest-withers\/","title":{"rendered":"The exposure of Ernest Withers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The CA<\/i> broke a pretty fascinating story<\/a> on Sunday: Ernest Withers, the iconic civil rights photographer, was a paid FBI informant. It’s almost too crazy to contemplate, but most history is, if you think about it.<\/p>\n

I was lucky enough to get to do the print layout, although that meant that I had to sit on such a crazy story for a few weeks. That’s nothing compared to Marc Perrusquia’s having to keep mum about it for the months — hell, years — leading up to publication.<\/p>\n

I’ve got the pages, arranged by spread, after the jump:<\/p>\n

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\"Withers<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Withers<\/a> \"Withers<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Withers<\/a> \"Withers<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Withers<\/a> \"Withers<\/a><\/p>\n

Check out the FBI’s paper trail and more information here<\/a>. And the Washington Post<\/i> has some reactions here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The CA broke a pretty fascinating story on Sunday: Ernest Withers, the iconic civil rights photographer, was a paid FBI informant. It’s almost too crazy to contemplate, but most history is, if you think about it. I was lucky enough to get to do the print layout, although that meant that I had to sit on such a crazy story for a few weeks. That’s nothing compared to Marc Perrusquia’s having to keep mum about… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13,11,57],"tags":[1533,2155,1532,2153,2154,1334,2244,700],"class_list":["post-4238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-news","category-work","tag-civil-rights","tag-design","tag-ernest-withers","tag-memphis","tag-news","tag-news-design","tag-photography","tag-the-commercial-appeal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-16m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4238"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4241,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions\/4241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}