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A man the FBI thought was dead recalls details of 1960 Louisiana murders
He is the last living witness involved in the events that led to the killings a man who later became a Ku Klux Klan leader.
Board that will review FBI files from civil rights era taking shape
The U.S. Senate Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday approved four nominees to serve on a national board tasked with reviewing and eventually releasing to the public hundreds of thousands of pages of FBI documents on murder cases from the civil rights era.
In Louisiana, FBI examination of Civil Rights-era killings doesn’t bring new charges
This story was written by Liz Ryan and Laura Nicholson. It was produced by Manship News Service at the LSU Manship School of Mass Communication. It is the fourth story in a four-part series from the LSU Cold Case Project. You can read the previous installments here. A retired FBI agent was at a Christian […]
In 1960 Louisiana, Black victim — not white shooter — convicted of a crime
This story was produced by Manship News Service at the LSU Manship School of Mass Communication. It is the third story in a four-part series from the LSU Cold Case Project. You can read the first story in this series here and the second story in this series here. More than six decades ago a […]
Louisiana was home to one of the most horrific killings of the civil rights era in 1960
This story was produced by the Manship News Service at the LSU Manship School of Mass Communication. It is the second story in a four-part series from the LSU Cold Case Project. To read the first installment in this series, please go here. MONROE, La.–In the rural neighborhood around Ticheli Road, the sound of multiple […]