40 years and justice is finally served. 40 years is not that long ago. T

his guy was a cop who offered two black hitchhikers a ride, then drove them to a wooded area where he and others whipped them with bean poles. He then took the unconscious men to the river, lashed their bodies to a Jeep engine block and old railroad rails and dumped them, still breathing, into the muddy water.

Ex-Lawman Indicted in 1964 Slayings
By LARA JAKES JORDAN and ALLEN G. BREED, Associated Press Writers
4 hours ago

WASHINGTON - A former Mississippi sheriff's deputy was arrested Wednesday in the 1964 slayings of two black teenagers who were long believed to have been kidnapped and killed by the Ku Klux Klan.

The former deputy, James Ford Seale, of Roxie, Miss., was named in a federal indictment charging him in connection with the teens' disappearance and deaths while they were hitchhiking in a rural area of the state east of Natchez.

Until recently, Seale was thought to be dead, and the investigation into the two deaths had long been abandoned.

Seale was taken into custody Wednesday afternoon and was taken to Jackson, Miss. He is expected to be arraigned Thursday on kidnapping charges stemming from the May 1964 disappearances of Henry Dee and Charles Moore.

Two months after Dee and Moore disappeared, their bodies were pulled from the Mississippi River as part of an FBI-led search for three civil rights workers reported missing about 160 miles away near Philadelphia, Miss.

Federal authorities, who were focusing on the more famous "Mississippi Burning" killings, turned the Dee and Moore case over to local authorities. A short time later, a justice of the peace called an end to the inquiry without presenting evidence to a grand jury.

Moore's older brother, Thomas Moore, worked with Canadian film producer David Ridgen for two years piecing together what happened in 1964. The effort led them to a brief confrontation with Seale, a former sheriff's deputy who had been reported as deceased in several newspapers.

In 2000, the Justice Department's civil rights unit reopened the case, the most recent in a string of civil rights-era killings that have been revived by state and federal authorities in the South.

Moore and Ridgen, along with Dunn Lampton, the U.S. attorney who has led the investigation in Mississippi, were traveling to Washington for a news conference as early as Thursday with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller.

Reached by cell phone on his way to the capital, a crying Thomas Moore said: "It's been a long journey, and I don't guess it could have happened any other way."

"I hope and I believe that Charles Moore and Henry Dee are beginning to smile," Thomas Moore said. "I'm hoping Charles Moore is saying I didn't let him down."

Seale and another man, Charles Marcus Edwards, were first arrested in the case in November 1964, four months after the bodies were found. At the time, Seale was asked if he knew why he had been arrested. The FBI said he responded: "Yes, but I'm not going to admit it. You are going to have to prove it."

Both men were reputed members of the Ku Klux Klan, which at the time was cracking down on a rumored gunrunning operation by black Muslims in rural Franklin County., Miss.

On May 2, 1964, according to federal documents, Seale offered the two black hitchhikers a ride, then drove them to a wooded area where he and others whipped them with bean poles. An informant later told the FBI that the Klansmen took the unconscious men to the river, lashed their bodies to a Jeep engine block and old railroad rails and dumped them, still breathing, into the muddy water.

Edwards initially told federal investigators the two black men were alive when he left them and he had nothing to do with any murders, according to FBI documents. He later denied making the statement.

Edwards was not expected to face any new charges, although authorities did not immediately say why.

The case is the latest long-dormat civil rights-era killing to be reopened decades after the crimes were committed. The others include:

_A 1994 conviction in Mississippi of Byron de la Beckwith for the 1963 sniper killing of NAACP leader Medgar Evers.

_Bobby Frank Cherry, convicted in 2002 in Alabama of killing four black girls in the bombing of a Birmingham church in 1963. In 2001, Thomas Blanton was convicted in the church bombing.

_Edgar Ray Killen, an 80-year-old former Klansman, convicted of manslaughter in June 2005 in the deaths of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, the three civil rights workers who were killed near Philadelphia in 1964.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/n...-coldcase.html

I found another story that gives Seale's age as 71. I hope he's in very good health.

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we can all (libs and neos) agree that this is a good day for America and justice.

This is a feather in Gonzales's cap and I'm not affriad to admit it.

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To a large degree most members of the KKK at its height where the average joe that never killed or did anything nefarious.

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Originally Posted by DuH2";p=&quot To a large degree most members of the KKK at its height where the average joe that never killed or did anything nefarious.

At the height of its membership it was the most murderous organization that this country has ever seen.

Peace.

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People of power have NO good will and people of good will have NO power.

If you think Education is Expensive try Ignorance.

The KKK (actually, it was the second KKK) formed in the early 20th century, and when it was at its peak in membership, was basically a social club. In those days, the majority of persons didn't even own a radio. Fraternal organizations were very popular, especially amongst men, and served as a means of organizing politically and socially. The Second Klan's largest membership was in the northern State of Indiana. This phase of the Klan dissolved in the late 30's (?), when it lost a lawsuit and was unable to make restitution. Again the Second Klan was largely a political, social and non-violent organization (mostly, but not always). The White Knights of the KKK (the third Klan phase) formed in the late 50's in Mississippi, was mostly located in only a few southern States, and was a very small organization. This Klan was an extremely violent organization.

The Klan evolved much in the same way the Black Panthers have. In the 60's, Eldridge Cleaver and the Panthers were a violent organization committed to revolution. Today, the Panthers are often guests on Hannity and Colmes. In 11th grade, I read Eldridge Cleaver's book, "Soul On Ice." For its day, it was an interesting read. If I read it today, it would sound totally silly.

In short, any Klan crimes that date back to the 60's come from the White Knights branch of the Klan and have little, if anything, to do with the Klan of the early 20th century.

BTW, your title would be more accurate if it said "Northern Man" rather than "Southern Man," seeing as how the majority of Klan members were from Northern States.

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At the height of its membership it was the most murderous organization that this country has ever seen.

At the height of its membership (in the 20's) it had very little to do with any sort of violence.

I'm tired of educating you people. Read the history of the Klan for your self.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan

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year membership

1920 4,000,000
1924 6,000,000
1930 30,000
1970 2,000
2000 3,000

See, I told you so.

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Mayberry posts Maybe Myberry you should clam up since you have not convinced anyone except the Duh that the Klan is a social club who raised money to send poor little colored children to summer camp!!!!

PS Thanks for the entertainment MAYBERRY I can laugh since my keyboard has also messed up a word or two once in a while.

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