Today the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal of James Ford Seale, the ex-Ku Klu Klan member, former Mississippi policeman and sheriff’s deputy who was indicted and convicted for his role in the kidnappings and brutal murders of Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore in the summer of 1964.

According to a report in the Jackson Free Press, “the FBI investigation of the Dee-Moore case yielded more than 1,000 pages of files, including informant accounts.” In November 1964, then FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, wrote to President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Special Assistant Bill Moyers, that Seale and fellow Klansman Charles Marcus Edwards ““willfully, unlawfully, feloniously and with malice aforethought [for] killing” Dee and Moore.

Seale was never charged until more than forty years later. 

Over four decades later, they did.

  • U.S. Court Rejects Klansman’s Conviction Challenge, Reuters (Nov. 2, 2009)
  • U.S. Court of Appeals Ruling, 5th Circuit (Sept. 9, 2008)
  • Ex-Klansman Found Guilty in Mississippi Killings, Reuters (June 15, 2007)
  • The Road to Justice in Dee-Moore Murders, Jackson Free Press

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