Exit to Freedom
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Cahners Theater
With Calvin C. Johnson, Jr., national board of directors, Innocence Project; chairman of the board of directors, Georgia Innocence Project; former Innocence Project client; and author. This presentation is part of the ongoing series Crimes, History and Mystery.
Additional media is availableIn 1983, Calvin C. Johnson Jr. stood in a courtroom and was sentenced to life in prison for a rape and burglary he said he did not commit. "With God as my witness, I have been falsely accused," Johnson told the judge, "I'm an innocent man." After 16 years in prison, Johnson was exonerated with the help of the Innocence Project and state-of-the-art science. He was the 61st person in the United States, and the first in Georgia, to be proved innocent by DNA testing.
Join us to hear firsthand about Johnson's wrongful conviction and imprisonment, and the events that led to his exoneration. Book signing to follow.
Free seating tickets are available to the general public in the Museum lobby beginning at 5:45 p.m. on the evening of each lecture. Seating is limited, first come, first served.
Museum members may reserve a limited number of free seating tickets in advance. Ticket availability is limited to the number of Exhibit Halls admissions permitted with your membership card. For member reservations, call 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday and Tuesday the week of the lecture only: 617-589-3169.
Programs in this series are free thanks to the generosity of the Lowell Institute. Additional funding provided by the Barbara and Malcolm L. Sherman Fund for Adult Programs.
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