Interesting story....a long-abandoned investigation has been re-opened, prompted by a CBC documentary. The murders of these black men were overshadowed by the more famous case of the civil-rights workers killed the same year. Excerpt below, followed by link to full story:

On May 2, 1964, Moore and Dee, both 19, were picked up by the Ku Klux Klan while hitchhiking near Meadville in southwestern Mississippi.

They were interrogated and tortured in a nearby forest, locked in a trunk, driven to Louisiana, chained to a Jeep motor and some train rails, and dropped alive into the Mississippi River, where they drowned.

Their mangled torsos were discovered more than two months later during the search for Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney — the three civil rights workers who disappeared June 21. The case was made famous in the 1988 film Mississippi Burning.

When it was discovered that the bodies were those of two black men and not those of the civil rights workers — two of whom were white — interest in the Dee and Moore case evaporated, and the press shifted its attention to the civil rights workers' deaths.


http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/01/24/m...tml#skip300x250

Ugh. Just disgusting. I really must bow down to any black person who lived during those times. I can't imagine living during a time in which I had restrictions on where I could eat, go to the bathroom, watch a movie, eat at a restaurant, sit on a bus, etc. And good grief...if you lived in the "deep south" you must have had to play 007 during the night if you wanted to go anywhere for fear that some crazy bastards wearing dunce caps would lynch you. I read awhile ago that they are re-opening the investigations into many of the lynchings and murders that took place during that time period. So many murderers never investigated...never prosecuted. Many who were prosecuted got off. What an absolutely horrible period in our nation's history. Thats why I hate to see the many black kids take a free and desegregated education for granted these days given that my ancestors shed their blood and lost their lives so that they wouldn't have to deal with the bullshit of that era. UGH!!!!!!!!! There is a special place in hell for those people who took part in the atrocities of that time.

This happened the year before I was born.

When I lived in the South, I always thought to myself, many of the people walking around had lived through that era. What scars did the Black people bear? What about the White people? What about all the White people who didn't speak out or try to change anything, who benefited from the apartheid situation and the violence that people took to the floor of the Senate, the House of Representatives, the doors of high schools and state universities, to defend? And what about those who did stand up, Black and White, to change things? Do we ever recognize their courage, bravery and vision enough? Is there ever any way to make up for that horrible situation and the traumas it has caused to all of us?

Good. I hope they catch all of those involved in this sick segment of our society. I hope they hunt down every last one of them, and I don't give a crap about how old or feeble they are. I hope there is no statute of limitation on these crimes. Justice will be served.