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Authorities to probe 3 civil rights-era slayings in Miss.
July 14, 2005
# Investigation to begin at end of Miss. justice's bribery trial
By Jerry Mitchell
jmitchell@clarionledger.com
Federal authorities will examine three unsolved killings from the civil rights era, U.S. Attorney Dunn Lampton said Wednesday.
"We just owe it to them," he said.
FBI documents show on May 2, 1964, Klansmen beat and killed 19-year-olds Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee in Franklin County, dumping their bodies in the Mississippi River. On Feb. 27, 1967, 37-year-old Wharlest Jackson was driving home, having been recently promoted to a "whites-only" job in Natchez, when a bomb planted under his truck exploded.
(Story continues ...)
# Investigation to begin at end of Miss. justice's bribery trial
By Jerry Mitchell
jmitchell@clarionledger.com
Federal authorities will examine three unsolved killings from the civil rights era, U.S. Attorney Dunn Lampton said Wednesday.
"We just owe it to them," he said.
FBI documents show on May 2, 1964, Klansmen beat and killed 19-year-olds Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee in Franklin County, dumping their bodies in the Mississippi River. On Feb. 27, 1967, 37-year-old Wharlest Jackson was driving home, having been recently promoted to a "whites-only" job in Natchez, when a bomb planted under his truck exploded.
(Story continues ...)
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