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...
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BATON ROUGE — Gov. John Bel Edwards apologized Wednesday (Nov. 16) on behalf of the state to former Southern University protest leaders and the families …
Last in a four-part series Shunda Wallace was 3 months old when her father, Leonard Brown, and another student, Denver Smith, were shot dead by …
Pain, lessons remain decades after Southern shooting Read More
Third in a four-part series At 12:35 p.m. on Nov. 17, 1972, the phone rang in the office of acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray …
Without an eyewitness, the FBI turned to polygraphs, angle of shot diagrams Read More
Second in a four-part series The knock on the door came at 4 a.m. Rickey Hill and Herget Harris, two protest leaders at Southern University, …
As gas clouds cleared, two lay dead. A sister wondered, ‘Why? Why?’ Read More
First in a four-part series Josephine and Denver Smith took different approaches to protests at Southern University in the fall of 1972. Josephine skipped class …
Half century later, question remains: What deputy killed two students? Read More