The Jackson Free Press award winning series "Road to Justice"

THE HOT DAYS OF HATE

HAVE NOT DISAPPEARED

AND MAY BE RETURNING!

If you have been following the recent news coverage of what big media call "another Klan cold case" you might like taking a trip back through our archives of another case near a similar site of a sixties death squad active in Neshoba county, Mississippi go to: http://fightincockflyer.blogspot.com/search?q=neshoba the links should still be active. The link will appear below this post.

And if you haven't heard yet what's airing on the news, here is what's going on - and it is remarkable - how one victim's brother [more than thirty-five years later] returns with a few reporters, did their own investigation into locating the men who tortured and killed his brother and another. Locals including members of the press reported to the investigators that the perpetrators were long dead.

The link below provides a cold look into the conditions faced by those supporting civil rights in Ole Mississip' and how rotten to the core the culture, people and society remained after Reconstruction.

It is a remarkable story told by a local paper.

The men had been accused in 1964 after an intense federal investigation where bodies were turning up all across the South, in this case the two torsos, skulls, chains and jerry rigged anchors were found by Navy divers under the supervision of the FBI. The murder charges were referred by the FBI to the local government who promptly dropped them.

It is also interesting that during that time the victims, two local young men were accused of being "Muslims organizing" in the area during those hot days of the civil rights struggle in the South. In fact they were merely hitch hiking to a dance and were barely involved in any civil rights organizing.

Read below and follow the local paper that told the story appearing in the news today:

"Following are links to the Jackson Free Press' full, and ongoing, package of stories about 1960s Klan activity in the Natchez-Meadville-Roxie, Miss., area, starting with the award-winning investigative story by Donna Ladd and a team of young Mississippians, working with David Ridgen, a documentary filmmaker from the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., about Thomas' Moore's 2005 return to Mississippi to seek justice for his brother's murder. In the first story, the Jackson Free Press first reported the news that both of the main Klan suspects are still alive in the Natchez area—although The Clarion-Ledger and other media had previously reported that the primary suspect had died."

Click the title line above or here: The JFP's Road to Justice