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Another shocking case of demoncrats forcing their satanic agenda on the south...
These poor men have been hounded for decades, and now the demoncrats want to take away their years of dotage. Godless heathens I tell you!
Ex-Klansman pleads not guilty to 1964 killings
JACKSON, Miss. - A reputed Ku Klux Klansman and former sheriff’s deputy pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges in the deaths of two black hitchhikers, four decades after their decomposed remains were found in the Mississippi River.
James Ford Seale, 71, was one of two white suspects initially arrested in 1964, but the FBI — consumed by the search for three civil rights workers — turned the case over to local authorities. A justice of the peace promptly threw out all charges.
Seale was arrested again Wednesday, seven years after the Justice Department reopened the case. He was charged with two counts of kidnapping and one count of conspiracy to commit kidnapping.
JACKSON, Miss. - A reputed Ku Klux Klansman and former sheriff’s deputy pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges in the deaths of two black hitchhikers, four decades after their decomposed remains were found in the Mississippi River.
James Ford Seale, 71, was one of two white suspects initially arrested in 1964, but the FBI — consumed by the search for three civil rights workers — turned the case over to local authorities. A justice of the peace promptly threw out all charges.
Seale was arrested again Wednesday, seven years after the Justice Department reopened the case. He was charged with two counts of kidnapping and one count of conspiracy to commit kidnapping.
Civil rights cases resurfaced
The arrest marks the latest attempt by prosecutors in the South to close the books on crimes from the civil rights era that went unpunished. In recent years, authorities in Mississippi and Alabama won convictions in the 1963 assassination of NAACP activist Medgar Evers; the 1963 Birmingham, Ala., church bombing that killed four black girls; and the 1964 Philadelphia, Miss., slayings of the three civil rights workers — the case that led to the discovery of Moore’s and Dee’s bodies.
The arrest marks the latest attempt by prosecutors in the South to close the books on crimes from the civil rights era that went unpunished. In recent years, authorities in Mississippi and Alabama won convictions in the 1963 assassination of NAACP activist Medgar Evers; the 1963 Birmingham, Ala., church bombing that killed four black girls; and the 1964 Philadelphia, Miss., slayings of the three civil rights workers — the case that led to the discovery of Moore’s and Dee’s bodies.
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