REVEALED: Ben Affleck Pressured Harvard Prof To Censor His Slave-Owning Ancestors From PBS Documentary [VIDEO]

The Daily Caller reports:

Hollywood megastar Ben Affleck requested that Harvard professor and documentary filmmaker Henry Louis Gates Jr. censor references to one of his slave-owning ancestors, emails released this week by Wikileaks revealed.

The emails, sent between Gates and Sony CEO Michael Lynton on July 22, 2014, also show that the two conspired to cover up Affleck’s censorship request.

Gates, a prominent black scholar, noted that none of the other celebrities who agreed to be interviewed for his PBS documentary, “Finding Your Roots,” had tried to censor information about their ancestors. Gates dug through genealogical records of various celebrities, including Anderson Cooper, Valerie Jarrett, Robert Downey Jr. and many more.

The emails also reveal that Gates acknowledged that agreeing to censor the documentary would be a “violation” of PBS’ rules.

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