28: Heather Heyer - Pay Attention, Part 02

Obscura: A True Crime Podcast

Justin Drown

True Crime, Personal Journals, History, Documentary, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 31 July 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In April 2017, following some months of debate, Charlottesville voted to remove the statue of Robert E Lee. But this stalled in early May, when a temporary injunction issued by the court prohibited the removal of the statue for another 6 months. By this time, the city’s former Lee Park had become the preferred venue for various neo-Confederate and far right wing political groups to hold public events in Charlottesville. This included demonstrations protesting the removal of the statues. These protests were met with peaceful resistance from anti-racism counter-protestors, but tensions between the two groups usually escalated. Attempts to keep them separated weren’t always successful, and intervention by law enforcement only served to further incite backlash from both sides. It’s against this socio-political backdrop that today’s story unfolded.Visit us online at ObscuraCrimePodcast.com
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0:00.0	Welcome, listener.
0:13.0	I'm glad you're here.
0:15.2	Take a seat.
0:16.6	Next to the fire.
0:21.0	Come to Obscurae, where we shine a light on the dark.
0:49.3	Part 3.
0:50.3	Those surprises.
1:00.0	Jamesfield, Jr. was born on April 26, 1997.
1:04.6	Before he had even been born, his mother Samantha had experienced her own share of tragedy.
1:10.3	When she was only 16, Samantha's parents divorced, and she and her mother moved down to an apartment
1:16.6	of their own.
1:17.8	According to the Cincinnati Inquirer, only months later in August 1984, Samantha's father
1:24.2	murdered her mother before taking his own life.
1:27.3	In mid 1996, Samantha became pregnant.
1:31.6	There appears to be little information available about how she met her son's father, James
1:36.0	Senior, who sadly wouldn't live to meet his son.
1:40.3	December 1996, five months before James Junior was born, 33-year-old James Senior was killed
1:47.2	in a car crash, nearer along her Kentucky.
1:50.8	The Washington Post reported that James Senior had left his unborn son money, which was
1:55.2	to be kept in a trust until he reached adulthood.
1:58.6	According to The New York Times, James grew up near Cincinnati, and also spent a lot of
2:03.2	his life in northern Kentucky.
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