After a gang leader was murdered in San Francisco’s Chinatown, the only witnesses who would talk with the police were tourists. They looked through so-called “mug books” filled with photographs of Asian men - and pointed out a man named Chol Soo Lee. Years later, a journalist decided to investigate his case, and described it as an “unreal, Alice-in-Chinatown murder case."
Today’s episode comes from the Smithsonian’s <a href="https://www.si.edu/sidedoor">Sidedoor podcast</a>. Julie Ha's documentary is <a href="https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/free-chol-soo-lee/%20">Free Chol Soo Lee</a>.
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