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By the time Rod Serling's teleplay on Emmett Till's lynching aired #OTD in 1956, network censors afraid to lose Southern viewers had moved its setting to New England. Serling learned that he'd need to mask his social commentary for his next project, as @jasmansky.bsky.social writes: loom.ly/QM3jTtM
Apr 25, 2025, 8:27 PM
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