Articles Written About the LSU Cold Case Project Cases by LSU Manship Students
Student journalists at LSU have pored over more than 175,000 pages of FBI files obtained under the Freedom of Information Act since 2009. They have interviewed witnesses and family members of African Americans killed by the Ku Klux Klan from the 1950s through the early 1970s and performed investigative research, even meeting with FBI officials in Washington to find and present facts about the cases and help provide closure for the families.
50 years after fatal shooting: Milton Scott’s family, FBI agents talk about the emotional toll
Part 2 of 2 BATON ROUGE — Beverly Shabazz did not have a job and…
The fatal shooting of Milton X Scott
Part 1 of 2 BATON ROUGE — On a hot, quiet morning in July 1973,…
LSU Cold Case Project student reporter wins first place in feature writing for large universities for story: “A Klansman’s sons seek to understand and redress his wrongs”
Congratulations to LSU Cold Case Project student reporter Josh Archote for winning first place in…
Students from LSU’s Manship School of Mass Communication and the Southern University Law Center won a national investigative reporting prize
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Gov. John Bel Edwards apologizes to families of two Southern students gunned down during 1972 protest
BATON ROUGE — Gov. John Bel Edwards apologized Wednesday (Nov. 16) on behalf of the…
Pain, lessons remain decades after Southern shooting
Last in a four-part series Shunda Wallace was 3 months old when her father, Leonard…
Without an eyewitness, the FBI turned to polygraphs, angle of shot diagrams
Third in a four-part series At 12:35 p.m. on Nov. 17, 1972, the phone rang…
As gas clouds cleared, two lay dead. A sister wondered, ‘Why? Why?’
Second in a four-part series The knock on the door came at 4 a.m. Rickey…
Half century later, question remains: What deputy killed two students?
First in a four-part series Josephine and Denver Smith took different approaches to protests at…
