JACKSON, Miss. - , who was convicted and imprisoned decades after the segregation-era abduction and killing of two young black men by Ku Klux Klansmen in rural Mississippi, has died, a spokesman with the federal Bureau of Prisons said.
Every time Americans think they've seen the last trials for civil rights-era atrocities, it seems, prosecutors will parade some stooped, white-haired defendant before the cameras in shackles. Byron de la Beckwith. Sam Bowers. Bobby Frank Cherry. Edgar Ray Killen. James Ford Seale.
JACKSON, Miss. -- Harry MacLean was a daily spectator in 2007 when federal prosecutors put part of Mississippi's troubled racial past on trial in a courtroom in downtown Jackson. A tall, lean figure with a notebook always at hand, the Denver lawyer recorded his impressions as reputed Ku Klux Klansman James Ford Seale was tried and convicted of kidnapping and conspiracy in the abductions and killings of two black teenagers, who disappeared from the deep woods of southwestern Mississippi in May 1964.
JACKSON - James Ford Seale, who was convicted and imprisoned decades after the segregation-era abduction and killing of two young black men by Ku Klux Klansmen in rural Mississippi, has died, a spokesman with the federal Bureau of Prisons said. Seale died Tuesday in Terre Haute, Ind., where he had been serving three life sentences after being convicted in 2007, Bureau of Prisons spokesman Edmond Ross said . He was 76.
Question: What's a surefire way to get a toe crushed? Fall out of step when you are one of 17,000 people line-dancing to the "Cupid Shuffle." Well, there were no reports of such a fiasco, but 17,000 Atlantans did slide their way into the Guinness Book of Records as part of the world's largest line dance recently at the 2007 Black Family Reunion Tour. The participants stepped for eight minutes to the "Cupid Shuffle," led by the song's creator, Cupid, at Cascade Field in Southwest Atlanta. In doing so, they trounced the record held by Hong Kong since December 2002, according to Guinness. Five year ago, 12, 168 line dancers held out for seven minutes and 40 seconds to "Baby Likes to Rock It" at the Happy Valley Recreation Ground in Hong Kong. I don't have no hate in my heart but I'm happy...
... judge decided recently that former Klansman James Ford Seale would spend the rest of his life in pri...
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JACKSON, Miss. | A federal appeals court has upheld the 2007 conviction of a reputed Ku Klux Klan member in the kidnapping of two black men who were killed in rural Mississippi in 1964. James Ford Seale, now 74, is in federal prison in Indiana. In a trial that took place 43 years after the crimes, a Mississippi jury convicted him of two counts of kidnapping and one count of conspiracy to commit kidnapping, and he was given three life sentences.
When he told the station manager the man's name, the manager told him that the man he was seeking, James Ford Seale, wasn't dead, and took Moore and his friend to Seale's house. As they approached Seale's house he fled to a motor home, refusing to respond to their calls. But David Ridgen, Moore's companion, took a picture of the fleeing Seale. Seale had been arrested in 1964, along with his cousin Charles Edwards, but after their case was turned over to local authorities by the FBI, which was consumed with the civil rights murders, all the charges were dropped against Seale and Edwards.
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday left in place a judge's ruling that allowed prosecutors to charge a reputed Ku Klux Klansman with kidnapping more than 40 years after two black men were abducted and killed in rural Mississippi. The justices rejected a plea from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to rule on whether too much time had elapsed for the case against James Ford Seale to go forward.
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