we're talking to jerry mitchell and dawn porter.k in a moment. ♪ [music break] >> this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. as we continue with the new film that is airing on pbs around the country called, "spies of mississippi." of rl to go to a clip bouldin, the former vice president of the mississippi naacp, who many believe was agent x -- who reported to the mississippi state sovereignty commission. >> they thought i was a spy. spy.n't no >> i knew r.l. very well. he was intimately involved with us. we did not have any indications that he was to the contrary. it was only through the due diligence of late senator henry kurtzman who began to pinpoint things to determine that he was working with the state sovereign commission. and that had to do with him taking off into the files and looking at reports, and sing reports being given about certain specific legions and him recollecting who was at the meetings. and everybody that attended that meeting were mentioned except one person that he k

but jerry mitchell started to write about these activities. murderer. if we don't have investigative journalists, if we don't support these people, these atrocities don't come to light. a victory for journalism. >> it was, a victory for journalism. i love that you made inlinks from that moment to our contemporary domestic spying issues. "spies of mississippi" airs monday on pbs. before we go, as we go out, i want to suggest a little bit more of the film. there's a moment where they're talking about the spies who look like us and who you think you're looking for in the room versus who you'll be looking for. we'll look at that as we go out. up next, former ser surgeon general joins us. >> you're always looking at the white guys in the pickup trucks down the road to take tag numbers down when we were leaving. we never decided to look around the room. we were not understanding that perhaps people were being paid who looked like us to spy and report back. ♪ turn around, barry ♪ i finally found the right snack ♪ [ female announcer ] fiber one. we ar