Cold Cases editor speaks to Georgia Press Association
"Every single unsolved Civil Rights murder that has been opened or reopened and prosecuted or reprosecuted in the last 20 years has been because of a journalist," said Hank Klibanoff, managing editor of the Civil Rights Cold Case Project.
Read the story by Winston Skinner in the Newnan Times-Herald.
Frank Morris case mentioned on Glenn Beck show
Fox News commentator Glenn Beck mentioned the Frank Morris case and the work done by Concordia Sentinel editor Stanley Nelson on his show Monday.
The full episode is online, and the Frank Morris segment begins around 6:59.
Frank Morris murder suspect confronted
Local Reporter and Cold Case Project Film Crew Interview Leonard Spencer Following Stanley Nelson's Revelations
46 years later, justice for a civil rights killing
After a big breakthrough in the Frank Morris case, Concordia Sentinel editor Stanley Nelson appeared on public radio program The Takeaway. Listen to the interview.
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.
