Last October, Ben Affleck became the hero of the American TV show "In search of his roots". The authors of the show are building the genealogical trees of famous people, looking for curious details from the life of celebrity ancestors. However, Ben, having learned the truth about one of his relatives, asked the creators of TV programs to delete that of his tresh.
It turned out that the ancestor that Affleck was trying, was a slave owner. And the authors of the show, contrary to their rules, decided not to talk about this man on the air. Instead, they told an interesting story about the great-grandfathers of the movie star, which during the Civil War claimed that he could communicate with the spirits of the dead. And used his abilities for consolations of those who have lost on the battlefield of close people. They also reported to Ben, that his other ancestor during the American revolution was served directly under the command of George Washington.
The name and degree of Rodance of the slave owner, to whom Ben accounts for a descendant, remained unknown. And the fact that the actor asked to hide this shameful point from the history of his family, began thanks to the Pictures Entertainment Sony Pictures Entertainment on Wikileaks. In one of the letters, Henry Luis Gates consulted with Michael Linton's general director, as he reacted to Affleck's request. And Linton allowed to remove the story about the slave owner from the transfer.
However, now Gates argues that the actor did not interfere in the process of creating a TV program about his ancestors. According to the leading, the slave owner was not mentioned because the editors of the show considered his story uninteresting.
Ben Affleck from comments still refrain.