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Daughters say top FBI informant -- Coonie Poissot -- lived for the chase

April 01, 2010
  • Concordia Sentinel
Stanley Nelson
Frank Morris Case

Two daughters of a man who was a Concordia Parish Klansman in the mid-1960s have different views of their father, one of the FBI's top informants in the 1964 murder of Ferriday shoe shop owner Frank Morris and other Klan violence.

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