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By Shekhar Bhatia, Apr. 24, 2015, Daily Mail

The documentary that censored Ben Affleck's slave-owning ancestors is now facing questions over its accuracy as his mother denied to Daily Mail Online that she was involved in Freedom Summer.

The episode of Finding Your Roots is already being investigated by its broadcaster, PBS, over whether its editorial code was breached by having the truth about Affleck's relatives censored.

Now another key element of the exploration of the Oscar-winner's past is under question over the assertion by PBS that Chris Affleck had been a 'Freedom Rider' in 1964 and taken part in Freedom Summer

On PBS's Finding Your Roots website, the episode guide states: 'Ben Affleck's mother was a Freedom Rider in 1964.'

And in the show itself, the documentary's host, Harvard academic Henry Louis Gates Jr, says Mrs Affleck had been part of 'Freedom Summer'.

As pictures of Mrs Affleck - then Chris Boldt - were shown juxtaposed with pictures of a group of Freedom Riders, Gates tells of the murder of three activists, one of the most notorious attacks on the Civil Rights movement in 1964, calling them Mrs Affleck's '

In fact, she told Daily Mail Online she was not a Freedom Rider - and was not in the South in 1964, but a year later.

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