AP: FBI Reviews 1946 Public Lynching Case

[deadparrot]

ATLANTA - Nearly 60 years after a white mob lynched two black couples on a summer afternoon and got away with it, the FBI is taking another look at the case.

FBI agent Stephen Emmett said the case is being reviewed "to insure that any recent technology or techniques could be used to enhance the prior investigation." He would not elaborate and said a decision on whether to actually reopen the investigation has not yet been made.

The bureau refused to say why it had taken a renewed interest in the 1946 case.

Civil rights activists have pressed witnesses to come forward and break the silence, which they say is the nation's last unsolved public lynching.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060413/ap_on_re_us/lynching_justice

[saigon68]

1. HARDLY the nation's last unsolved public lynching.

NO ONE PAID FOR THIS ONE EITHER



CHECK OUT THE SWEET SMILING FACES IN THIS PHOTO

SOME OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE ARE HAVING A LOT OF FUN, WATCHING THEM "TWIST" IN THE BREEEZE

LINK: http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0309/lm18.html


Lynching 1930

A mob of 10,000 whites took sledgehammers to the county jailhouse doors to get at these two young blacks accused of raping a white girl; the girl’s uncle saved the life of a third by proclaiming the man’s innocence. Although this was Marion, Ind., most of the nearly 5,000 lynchings documented between Reconstruction and the late 1960s were perpetrated in the South. (Hangings, beatings and mutilations were called the sentence of “Judge Lynch.”

[Dogmudgeon]

4. Just one second there ...

... I'd read about this lynching some years ago; several of those people had been identified, and at least one of them bragged about it.

Why not start with the extant -- but ignored -- evidence?

--p!

[MADem]

5. I think that might have been lousy editing--that they were trying to say

last, as in the latest, most recent, and not suggest that this is the ONLY unsolved case. Certainly other murders of this heinous sort have gone unsolved. If that was their intent to suggest that all the other crimes have been wrapped up, they are sorely mistaken.

[saigon68]

6. You are right

In the photo above hundreds participated and thousands watched the whole sordid episode.

No one was ever convicted of anything.

[Sequoia]

2. Emmett?

Emmett Till.

[MADem]

3. Jesus H. Christ--a stain on our history, indeed

It's just sickening to read this. I can't comprehend why people can sometimes be such murderous assholes.

...Roger and Dorothy Malcom and George and Mae Murray Dorsey were riding with a white farmer when they were killed on July 25, 1946, in Monroe, a few days after Roger Malcom got into a fight with a white man. The mob forced them out of the car, dragged them down a trail near a bridge over the Apalachee River and shot them, according to an FBI report. The farmer was spared.

What made the lynchings more horrific, said author Laura Wexler, was how public and brazen they were.

"This didn't happen under cover of darkness. It happened at 5 or 6 in the afternoon," said Wexler, whose book "Fire in a Canebrake" chronicles the killings. "There's no evidence that shows they were wearing any kind of mask."

The FBI was ordered to investigate the case in 1946 by President Truman but was thwarted by a lack of witnesses. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says it still pursues every lead it gets and has never closed the case....

[Judi Lynn]

7. There was a more recent "lynching" in Jasper, Texas June 7, 1998

of an innocent man, James Byrd, by 3 men, 2 of whom were connected to the white supremicists. It was horizontal, rather than verticle, dragging him behind a pickup until his head came away and his body was released.

Eight years ago seems somewhat more recent than 1946.

[Sequoia]

9. That was one person, this was 4.

[Sequoia]

8. Well, it figures my redneck library doesn't have this.

They don't have "Freedom Riders 1961" either. However, they have plenty of religous books.

[pinto]

10. The wheels of justice...

[NVMojo]

11. ...a stain ...how appropriate ...the shame of the USA ...goes on and on

[saigon68]

12. kick