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Podcast: This Day (An America 250 History Show)
Episode: The Lost Robert E. Lee Oath Theory (1975) w/ John Reeves
Description: It’s July 22nd. This day in 1975, Congress voted to restore citizenship to Robert E. Lee, more than a hundred years after his death.
Jody, NIki, and Kellie are joined by author John Reeves to talk about why this vote took place, how it tied into a false theory about a missing citizenship oath, and what the myth of Lee says about how the Confederacy has been restored in the public imagination.
John Reeve’s book is “The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee: The Forgotten Case against an American Icon”
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