November 2010
Reporter speaks on air about Frank Morris case
Concordia Sentinel veteran reporter Stanley Nelson talks with The Jim Engster Show about the 1964 murder of Frank Morris and other racially-motivated cold-case crimes in Louisiana.
Download the MP3 audio here (the interview begins at 10:51).
FBI investigating former Alabama trooper for another killing
The FBI continues to investigate former Alabama trooper James Bonard Fowler for yet another killing, the Montgomery Advertiser is reporting.
45 years later, former state trooper pleads guilty
A white former Alabama state trooper has pleaded guilty to killing a black civil rights worker 45 years ago at the height of the civil rights movement. Seventy-seven-year-old James Bonard Fowler was sentenced to six months in prison for the 1965 shooting of 26-year-old Jimmie Lee Jackson during a melee in a restaurant in Marion, Alabama. Democracy Now! speaks to John Fleming, the reporter to whom Fowler first confessed and a founder of The Civil Rights Cold Case Project, and Democratic House member John Lewis of Georgia, a leading figure of the civil rights movement.
Former Alabama trooper pleads guilty in 1965 killing
Former state trooper James Bonard Fowler pleaded guilty today (Monday, Nov. 15) to manslaughter in the 1965 killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson.
Fowler, 77, who pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter charges, will serve six months in prison under the plea deal.
