Civil Rights Movement
Justice deferred is finally served
The face of a racist murderer : James Ford Seale
It took 43 years for the families of Henry Dee and Charles Moore to close the case on their murders but they've finally done it.
People believed that for 43 years the Ku Klux Klansman who killed them was dead. That was until a Canadian reporter and a team that included family members of the victims found the man in 2005 living miles away from the scene of the crime.
My first reaction is to say, "Amazing". Yet, there is only one obvious question to ask about this case : How the hell did this man walk free for 43 years? Oh right, he retired as a deputy sheriff.
Hat tip to Rox.
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Mississippi Alt-Weekly Revealed Indicted Klansman Was Still Alive
Source: AAN press release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WASHINGTON, D.C., January 24, 2007 -- The federal government today charged reputed Klansman James Ford Seale -- reported as dead by media for several years -- for his role in the kidnapping murders of two young black hitchhikers, Henry Dee and Charles Moore, in 1964 in Meadville, Mississippi, near Natchez. Seale's alleged accomplice, Charles Marcus Edwards, has not been charged and is expected to testify against Seale. The Department of Justice has granted Edwards immunity for his testimony.
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