Reward offered for info in unsolved Mississippi civil rights murders

The only thing that has kept Thomas Moore from going after the Ku Klux Klansmen he says were never punished for the 1964 killings of his brother and another black man is a promise to his mother. He had even bought a rifle to get the job done.

"She asked me to promise her that I wouldn't do anything about it. That the Lord would take care of it," the 62-year-old retired Army sergeant said. "I said 'oh man' because I had some fantastic plans - Vietnam veteran after scalps. I had the knowledge and the techniques."

Moore still wants justice in the decades-old crime, but money is now his weapon of choice.

The Mississippi Religious Leadership Conference and Moore have established a reward fund and are seeking donations they hope will lead to information in the murders of Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee in Franklin County. A similar fund was set up during the investigation of Edgar Ray Killen, a former Klan leader sentenced in June to 60 years for the 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers.



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Kick for civil rights. I mean, there ARE other news stories out there....