Late FBI agent Jim Ingram stood tall in Mississippi
The FBI is featuring one of its own, the late agent Jim Ingram, in its new online series, “The FBI Versus the Ku Klux Klan.” Jim Ingram In his more than 30 years with the FBI, Ingram headed the Chicago...
View ArticleKlan leader subpoenas FBI files from Clarion-Ledger
Edgar Ray Killen in 1964 The Klan leader convicted in 2005 of orchestrating the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers now wants The Clarion-Ledger to turn over FBI records it has obtained from...
View ArticleThe Clarion-Ledger wins court fight to keep Klan leader from getting its...
Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen lost his bid to get his hands on FBI files in the possession of The Clarion-Ledger. Edgar Ray Killen in his 1964 arrest photograph On Wednesday, U.S. Magistrate Judge F....
View ArticleTwo-thirds of 124 civil rights cold cases closed
The FBI’s latest report to Congress reveals agents have closed two-thirds of the 124 killings from the civil rights killings they investigated. Reporters Allen Breed and Holbrook Mohr detail the latest...
View ArticleWhat if Edgar Ray Killen told all he knew?
What if Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen told all he knew? Edgar Ray Killen Two suspects are still alive in the June 21, 1964, killings of three civil rights workers, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and...
View ArticleOlen Burrage dies and so does possibility of prosecuting the Mississippi...
FBI agents uncover the bodies of three slain civil rights workers in a dam on property owned by Olen Burrage, who died last week. The last time I spoke with Olen Burrage, it was by telephone. The...
View ArticleFormer Justice official to FBI: Run MLK prints
Forty-five years after the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the one-time chief counsel for the House Select Committee on Assassinations says the FBI should run the unidentified...
View ArticleCould Congressional Gold Medal come to 3 slain young men to honor them and...
A half century after the Ku Klux Klan bombed a Birmingham church, killing four girls in September 1963, those girls were honored posthumously with a Congressional Gold Medal. With the 50th anniversary...
View Article50 years ago, the KKK killed Clifton Walker — the FBI has never talked with...
Clifton Walker (Photo courtesy of the Walker family) By Ben Greenberg Fifty years ago today, a mob ambushed Clifton Earl Walker Sr. on Poor House Road — believed to be the first slaying by...
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