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.
Students from LSU’s Manship School of Mass Communication and the Southern University Law Center won a national investigative reporting prize
https://bossierpress.com/students-from-lsus-manship-school-of-mass-communication-and-the-southern-university-law-center-won-a-national-investigative-reporting-prize/
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…
A man the FBI thought was dead recalls details of 1960 murders
Not a day has passed during the past 62 years that Willie Gibson hasn’t thought…
Sins of their fathers haunt these children of Klansmen
https://www.mississippicir.org/news/sins-of-their-fathers-haunt-these-children-of-klansmen
Our dad was in the Klan: ‘If you don’t learn your history, then you’re doomed to relive it’
Third in a three-part series Leland and Sonny Boyd say some relatives and old friends…
