polarization, i guess it was worse in 1939 as i ve learned from you because that year we couldn t even agree on what day was thanksgiving. kenneth c. davis, thank you so much, i appreciate you coming back. have a great day tomorrow. happy thanksgiving to you, michael, good night. and to you, good night. we ll be right back right after this. what happens if you ever need to miss work for a long period of time? why would i miss work? i don t know. you could sprain your ankle, throw out your back. get hit by a school bus. or a regular bus. get kicked by a horse.
joey, big picture reaction. also, remind everybody as i said at the outset, we almost never got here, right, but for the video, there would never have been a prosecution? yeah, that s absolutely right, michael. i m in accord with your analysis. you know, this is interesting. you can look at it on the one hand and say it s a broken system or look at it on the other and say it s a system that works. what do i mean? and how as we never got here or perhaps we would not have been here. you look at the first district attorney who now, herself, is under die. she s under indictment for issues related to her for obstruction. under indictment for issues associated with just interfering in that process. then have you who i speak of as jackie johnson. she then recuses herself and gives her a memo saying there is nothing to see here and blaming ahmaud aubrey for being a criminal. it goes to another prosecutor who as you indicated doesn t
made. thank you for being with us. i appreciate your time, wishing you a happy thanksgiving. you too and your whole staff. let s head over to michael south smerconish in for chris cuomo. welcome to prime time on this thanksgiving eve. there is no word to use alleged, it was murder, a jury has spoken. all three white defendants in georgia convicted by an almost white jury in the deep south of killing ahmaud aubrey in 2020. this was a trial many used as another test for racial bias. by that measure, it was a good day for equal justice under the law. of the 27 total charges for travis and greg mcmichael and william roddey bryant, only four resulted in not guilty investigators. the man who pulled the trigger
across the country tomorrow, you ll likely gather around the table with people that matter to you. the images of thanksgiving are as baked into our collective imagination as the best pumpkin pie. we all grew up with images of the pilgrims on plymouth rock and their iconic hats. for many of us it s as much a part of the holiday as the turkey. what you think you know about thanksgiving may be a myth. let s get a side of truth with historian kenneth c. davis, author of the don t know much about history franchise, welcome back, what s abraham lincoln got to do with it. it was in 1863, michael and good evening and happy thanksgiving to you. 1863 that abraham lincoln signed what was the first this a series of presidential proclamations
have the appropriate resources. then we have the state step in. all of that is done against the backdrop of humanity, people crying for justice, people yearning for something to occur here and something is amiss. you have the videotape, the outraged public, 74 days, two-and-a-half months later, where finally, there are dimes made, arrests made and people brought to justice, then, of course, the process begins. not withstanding that process, which is somewhat broken but is it broken if you have people who can rise up, good people of good will and say you know what, something s wrong here. we have to take a closer look. then when you take a closer look, michael, you have a situation where you have a jury empanelled and a judge who says, this is intentional discrimination as it relates to 11 white jurors and one african-american. then you have that jury that processes through and render a verdict that speaks to facts as we know them to be, that speaks