Baldwin’s most explosive interviews were cut from I Heard It Through the Grapevine.

Evidence

In working on chapter six, I had an opportunity to visit the Dick Fontaine Paper and Film Outtakes Collection housed at Harvard University. I wanted to see what went into the making of I Heard It Through the Grapevine, and what was left on the cutting floor. I read the full transcripts of the interviews. Baldwin’s interviews of John Lewis and Ben Chavis were left out of the film. … As Chavis described what happened to him and the others, Baldwin’s rage leaps from the page. It could have easily overwhelmed the entire film. What I read gave me a sense of the depth of his anger. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 632

Categorization

• XREF: Evidence for the reader’s case that the ‘angry,’ dismissed late Baldwin is the essential one being suppressed.