From the producers of Smoked comes an investigation into the remarkable life and mysterious death of the only Super Bowl champion from Lancaster, S.C. In 1970, Jim Duncan was a star on the rise for the Baltimore Colts, and the top kickoff return man in the NFL. 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. They also didn't openly question it. Until now. Reported and hosted by Bret McCormick of The Herald in Rock Hill, S.C.
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01/26/21 • 1 min
Smoked - Introducing Longshot: Return Man
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Lancaster, South Carolina, is in the middle of not much,
Speaker 1but 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 Nashville Conference, and where his death, even now, almost half a century later, still
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