Carolyn Jessop: "Escape" (Broadway)

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Carolyn Jessop: "Escape" (Broadway)

Carolyn Jessop was once a member of a radical polygamist religious sect. She talks about her life as the fourth wife of a man decades older than her, living under the same roof as his other wives and children, and what spurred her to...

Carolyn Jessop was once a member of a radical polygamist religious sect. She talks about her life as the fourth wife of a man decades older than her, living under the same roof as his other wives and children, and what spurred her to gather her eight children in the middle of the night and leave.

Guests

Carolyn Jessop

author, "Escape;" spent 35 years in the Fundamentalist LDS community before escaping with her children.

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