Original Air Date: 1/9/20
Most of us are probably familiar with the Kingston Trio song, “Tom Dooley”, but fewer may realize that it was based on the true life murder of Laura Foster in 1866 North Carolina.
Charlotte Corbin Barnes is an unapologetic supporter of Tom Dooley’s innocence, and explains the crime, the complications of the trial due to the intense political climate in North Carolina in the era of Reconstruction, and her suspicions on what might have really happened. Her book is called “The Tom Dooley Files: My Search for the Truth Behind the Legend”.
Buy the book at the Wilkes Heritage Museum Gift Shop.
