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Cargile Statement

Cargile, the administrator of John B. McLemore's estate, has voluntarily dismissed the right of publicity lawsuit against the creators of the S-Town podcast. Through discovery, Cargile learned that McLemore was an avid fan of This American Life and actively participated in interviews for the podcast over two years, encouraging the story. Cargile concluded the creators acted appropriately. Although administrator, Cargile is not part of McLemore's family and was appointed by the court instead of a competing family member. The estate has no objection to the podcast or future uses relating to McLemore.

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Cargile Statement

Cargile, the administrator of John B. McLemore's estate, has voluntarily dismissed the right of publicity lawsuit against the creators of the S-Town podcast. Through discovery, Cargile learned that McLemore was an avid fan of This American Life and actively participated in interviews for the podcast over two years, encouraging the story. Cargile concluded the creators acted appropriately. Although administrator, Cargile is not part of McLemore's family and was appointed by the court instead of a competing family member. The estate has no objection to the podcast or future uses relating to McLemore.

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STATEMENT BY CRAIG CARGILE

I, plaintiff Craig Cargile, Administrator of the Estate of John B. McLemore, have

voluntarily dismissed with prejudice all claims in the right of publicity lawsuit brought against

Serial Productions, LLC, Brian Reed, and the other creators of the podcast S-Town. The lawsuit,

which was filed in July 2018, was captioned Cargile v. Serial Productions, LLC, This American

Life Benefit Corporation, Brian Reed, Chicago Public Media, Inc., Shittown, LLC, Serial

Podcast, LLC, and American Whatever, LLC, case No. 7:18-cv-01667-LSC, in the Western

Division of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.

I have learned through the discovery and a review of other facts made available since this

suit was filed that Mr. McLemore was an avid listener and fan of This American Life and its

programming, and that over the course of two years, he invited and encouraged Mr. Reed, an

award-winning journalist, to create a program about his small town. He participated actively as a

documentary subject and source for the story that would become S-Town, partaking in many

interviews with Mr. Reed, and encouraging others to be interviewed as well. I have concluded

that Serial Productions, Mr. Reed, and the other creators of S-Town acted responsibly and

appropriately in their reporting on John B. McLemore.

Although I am the administrator of the estate of John B. McLemore, I am not a member

of Mr. McLemore’s family. I served as the Guardian ad Litem to John B. McLemore’s mother,

Mary Grace McLemore (who was not able to act on her own), a position I was selected for by

random appointment from the Probate Court. Then, one month after release of the S-Town

podcast and almost two years after Mr. McLemore’s death, I petitioned the Probate Court of

Bibb County, Alabama, to create an estate and appoint me as administrator. A member of the

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McLemore family filed a competing petition in Probate Court to be appointed administrator, but

I was selected as administrator by the court instead of that family member.

Pursuant to the appointment from the Probate Court of Bibb County, Alabama, but

without the prior knowledge or consent of Mr. McLemore’s family, I filed this right of publicity

lawsuit against Serial Productions, Brian Reed, and the other creators of the S-Town podcast on

behalf of the estate.

As the administrator of the Estate of John B. McLemore, I declare that the estate has no

objection or claim to the podcast, nor does the estate have any objection or claim to any future

uses of the podcast or the journalistic and creative work relating to John B. McLemore by the

defendants or their designees.

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