dr. simsot the idea for her project when she heard a speech about lynching by retired minister the reverend wallace hartsfield, sr. now 83, he was only eight or nine living in georgia when he peered from behind a curtain and saw a mob. >> they had taken the man out, and they had used his body for gun practice, and then they had hanged him, and then cut him down and dragged him through the street and this was supposed to be a warning to, you know -- >> photographs were made of lynchings, then turned into postcards. >> when we think about lynching, particularly lynching as mob spectacle, it was very much a spectator sport. and so children were even dismissed from school in order to participate in the spectacle that was hanging, burning, maiming, dismembering. >> i had to take the bus home, and i had to ride a bus through the mob and to see the joy on their faces, as if they were cong to picnic. >> these postcards are just a graphic depiction of the way in which a culture of terror is almost ende

dr. ablow you heard what diana just said they are engaged to people they never met. does that give you more sympathy and should it give all of us more simed to manti te'o? >> manti te'o has already admitted that even after he he knew it was a hoax and f. it weighs a hoax that he perpetuated because he was embarrassed. people can judge whether he needs psychological help which i think he might. yes, the fact that engaged to those they have never met and fall in love with ghosts should give us all a heads up. we literally have kids who adopt penguins online and grieve over the fact that these, play penguins don't seem happy if they don't play with them enough. this is a set up to lose reality, to not be able to tackle your own problems or those of our culture. it is the greatest drug that this species has known because both diana and i have facebook accounts and, yet, we are identifying it as a dangerous drug. >> alisyn: it's everywhere. diana, you say you have a close friend who was a victim of a very similar hoax. this isn't as rare as we think it is. >> this isn't new, too. this is a good thing that this happened in such a public way b