Longshot: Return Man Trailer

From The Herald in Rock Hill, S.C., McClatchy Studios and iHeartRadio comes an investigation into the life and mysterious death of the only Super Bowl champion from Lancaster, S.C. At one time, Jim Duncan was a star on the rise for the Baltimore Colts; the NFL’s leading kickoff returner in 1970; and a hero of that year’s title game. Then, two years later, authorities say Duncan, who was Black, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside his hometown police station. Many Black people alive in Lancaster at the time didn't believe the official account of the death. We examine the questions they had. New episodes coming each Tuesday, through March 16.

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Lancaster, South Carolina, is in the middle of not much,
but growing up near that rural town in the post
Civil rights South, I knew it as the hometown of
a black man named Jim Duncan who became a super
Bowl hero. That's the Baltimore called camps of the American Conference,
the Dallas Cowboys champs of the National Conference, and where
his death, even now, almost half a century later, still

(00:24):
makes no sense at all. You get to the kick
a ducking up to the fifteen that the story was
that my brother went into the police station, took a gun,
all the police officer and shot himself in the head.
Most people I believe that. I'm Brett McCormick. For the
past three years at the Rockhill Herald, I've looked back

(00:44):
at a story that's timelier than ever. My first impression
was that could have happened last the tale of a
life falling apart, lookout and police too close to the edge.
Couldn't do that much. I'm trying to forget about stuff
happened years ago, move on it, search for closure for

(01:05):
an event almost no one could believe. Rum day stop
coming up. We'll be a better fake. But even fewer
dred question, have you got some time to talk? Never
has this been something that anybody's am interested in talking
about until now. It involves rates the middle state of
the person and a towel that was scared to death

(01:27):
to say anything. Return Man from the rock Hill Herald,
McClatchy Studios, and I Heart Radio coming January on the
I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts wherever you get your podcasts,
and Harold online dot com. I don't think players even
the unusual about Lancaster. If you took away the days

(01:48):
and time, could you imagine that happening today? Yes, you
can