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Records in 1946 Lynching Case Must Remain Sealed, Court Rules | New York Times
No one was ever charged in the killing of two black couples by a group of white men in rural Georgia, known as the Moore’s Ford lynchings.
Mourners carried the coffin of a lynching victim out of Mount Perry Baptist Church in Bishop, Ga.
in 1946. The lynching was a quadruple killing.
Even after the passage of 74 years, the Trump Justice Department fought against the release of the grand jury testimony. More than 100 people testified before a federal grand jury in December 1946 but no one was indicted.
Reminds me somewhat of the eventual indictment and conviction of Klansman Byron De La Beckwith (1920-2001) for the 1963 assassination of Medgar Evers in his Jackson, Mississippi driveway. After two trials resulted in hung juries in 1964, Beckwith thought he had escaped justice. But in 1994 buried trial documents were unearthed and Beckwith was indicted, convicted of the murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole.
No one was ever charged in the killing of two black couples by a group of white men in rural Georgia, known as the Moore’s Ford lynchings.
Mourners carried the coffin of a lynching victim out of Mount Perry Baptist Church in Bishop, Ga.
in 1946. The lynching was a quadruple killing.
Even after the passage of 74 years, the Trump Justice Department fought against the release of the grand jury testimony. More than 100 people testified before a federal grand jury in December 1946 but no one was indicted.
Reminds me somewhat of the eventual indictment and conviction of Klansman Byron De La Beckwith (1920-2001) for the 1963 assassination of Medgar Evers in his Jackson, Mississippi driveway. After two trials resulted in hung juries in 1964, Beckwith thought he had escaped justice. But in 1994 buried trial documents were unearthed and Beckwith was indicted, convicted of the murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole.
