George Dinning's guest appearances

George Dinning

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Constant Wonder

Wyatt Earp

Cait Flanders

Emily Dickinson

Alfred Hitchcock

Toni Morrison

Margalit Fox

James Stewart

David Meyers

Joseph Smith

Bob Ross

Dian Fossey

Theodore Roosevelt

Harry Houdini

Robert E. Lee

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Ben Montgomery shares how a freed slave in Kentucky worked with a former Confederate hero to win damages from a lynch mob. Caleb McDaniel of Rice University tells the story of a formerly enslaved woman who sued her former master, and won.

Ben Montgomery

My guest, Ben Montgomery, tells the story of George Dinning, a former slave who was visited one night in 1897 by a mob, hellbent on driving him and his family off of their Kentucky farm. In an exchange of gunfire, Dinning killed a wealthy white man. Dinning then had to elude lynchers while fighting for his life in court. Unlikely allies would come forward, including a former Confederate officer who believed that Dinning was in the right due to the castle doctrine, and agreed to represent him in a federal case against members of the mob that had terrorized he and his family. Ben Montgomery's book is called "A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South", and more information about him can be found at: https://www.benmontgomerywrites.com/Become a Most Notorious patron: https://www.patreon.com/mostnotoriousMost Notorious website: https://www.mostnotorious.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My guest, Ben Montgomery, tells the story of George Dinning, a former slave who was visited one night in 1897 by a mob, hellbent on driving him and his family off of their Kentucky farm. In an exchange of gunfire, Dinning killed a wealthy white man. Dinning then had to elude lynchers while fighting for his life in court. Unlikely allies would come forward, including a former Confederate officer who believed that Dinning was in the right due to the castle doctrine, and agreed to represent him in a federal case against members of the mob that had terrorized he and his family. Ben Montgomery's book is called "A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South", and more information about him can be found at: <a href="https://www.benmontgomerywrites.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.benmontgomerywrites.com/</a> Become a Most Notorious patron: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/mostnotorious" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/mostnotorious</a>Most Notorious website: <a href="https://www.mostnotorious.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.mostnotorious.com/</a> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

187: The George Dinning Story: Terror & Retribution in Turn of the Century Kentucky w/ Ben Montgomery