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.
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…
Our Dad Was in the Klan: Drawn in, disillusioned, disgusted
Second in a three-part series When Leland Boyd woke up in the middle of the…
Our Dad Was in the Klan: He ‘had a rage in him’
First in a three-part series Though 57 years have passed, Leland Boyd still can’t forget…
Thanks to students, more FBI files on Klan violence could be released
https://www.mississippicir.org/news/thanks-to-students-more-fbi-files-on-klan-violence-could-be-released
Board that will review FBI files from civil rights era taking shape
The U.S. Senate Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday approved four nominees to serve on a…
LSU lab helps law enforcement solve missing persons cases
https://lailluminator.com/2021/12/03/lsu-lab-helps-law-enforcement-solve-missing-persons-cases/
