Email: Affleck asked PBS to not reveal slave-owning ancestor
April 18, 2015 at 21:11 PM EDT
BOSTON- Ben Affleck requested that the PBS documentary series "Finding Your Roots" not reveal he had a slave-owning ancestor, according to emails published online by whistleblower site WikiLeaks, and the information never appeared on the program. PBS and Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, host of the show that traces the ancestry of well-known guests, said in...