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Students from LSU’s Manship School of Mass Communication and the Southern University Law Center won a national investigative reporting prize

April 10, 2023

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Bitter Jaguar Listening Event

By LSU Cold Case Project / November 30, 2023 / About the Project, Southern Series

BATON ROUGE — The LSU Cold Case Project, LSU Storytellers Lab, and Manship School of Mass Communication will host a listening event for a new […]

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Students from LSU’s Manship School of Mass Communication and the Southern University Law Center won a national investigative reporting prize

By LSU Cold Case Project / April 10, 2023 / Southern Series / Featured

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Gov. John Bel Edwards apologizes to families of two Southern students gunned down during 1972 protest

By LSU Cold Case Project / November 17, 2022 / Community Impact, Southern Series

BATON ROUGE — Gov. John Bel Edwards apologized Wednesday (Nov. 16) on behalf of the state to former Southern University protest leaders and the families

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Pain, lessons remain decades after Southern shooting

By LSU Cold Case Project / November 15, 2022 / Southern Series

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

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Without an eyewitness, the FBI turned to polygraphs, angle of shot diagrams

By LSU Cold Case Project / November 6, 2022 / Southern Series

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

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As gas clouds cleared, two lay dead. A sister wondered, ‘Why? Why?’

By LSU Cold Case Project / November 2, 2022 / Southern Series

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,

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Half century later, question remains: What deputy killed two students?

By LSU Cold Case Project / October 30, 2022 / Southern Series / Featured

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