Montgomery Advertiser

So Josh Moon,

before he was of Alabama political reporter fame, he was kind of a co-beat writer for Auburn for the Montgomery Advertiser, back when there was a Montgomery Advertiser program.

And, you know, he knows that beat really well, and he understands Auburn athletics.

And probably, like, the word Josh has a lot of value.

In 2015, at 74, Burns said he only had vague memories of the shooting itself.

The Montgomery Advertiser reported a, quote, sense of relief that Willie Maxwell was dead.

The Reverend's own funeral drew an even larger crowd than Shirley Ann's, but many of them came just to make sure he was dead.

Wow, yeah.

In the witness room, his lawyer Steve Ellis turned to the family and shouted that they were torturing him.

He's going through hell in there, a Montgomery Advertiser reporter heard him say.

Commissioner Morris Thigpen, who had run Mississippi's prisons the night Jimmy Lee Gray died, told reporters, "...I regret very, very much what happened.

It was human error.

Front row.

Max Donaldson, Montgomery Advertiser.

You mentioned rebounding a lot in your opening statement.

Is that where you see the biggest growth, or where do you see the biggest growth from last year to now?

Right.

And I know today compared to 30 years ago when it was the Birmingham News, and the Post Herald, and the Montgomery Advertiser, and the Huntsville Times, and the Mobile Register, uh, th- those, you know, they were people that, sports editors, sports writers, beat writers, it was a lot bigger deal with newspapers back then-

Lot

... than it is today.

The column inches.

Are you kidding me?

The, the Montgomery Advertiser and, you know, uh, the Bamerham News and all this kinda stuff, and they're grown people.

Yes.