This White man is doing more for Black folks and restoring our faith in justice than anyone else in the game right now.
Thank God For Agent Ingram!
Helping the FBI re-examine civil rights cases from the 1960s, Jim Ingram is now charged with sifting through old evidence, tracking down witnesses and re-interviewing them.
"I never in my wildest dreams thought the FBI would call upon a 75-year-old man to assist them," Ingram said of his work in the bureau's cold-case initiative. "I knew these old informants, I knew these old witnesses," Ingram said. "Some of them cannot hear, some of them have really lost their eyesight almost, but you still, most of them had good memories.
"And those are the ones that we called upon to testify."
In the 1960s, as a young FBI agent, Ingram investigated civil rights cases in Mississippi. In 2005, after he'd been retired for years, the FBI asked him to help re-examine dozens of unsolved civil rights cases that had slipped through history's cracks.
His work helped convict James Ford Seale, a former Mississippi sheriff's deputy, of kidnapping and conspiracy in the 1964 deaths of black teenagers Henry Dee and Charles Eddie Moore. According to the Jackson (Mississippi) Clarion-Ledger -- citing FBI documents -- Dee and Moore were picked up by two men while hitchhiking on May 2, 1964.
The men were members of the Ku Klux Klan, but they told the two teenagers they were law enforcement officials. Instead of giving them a ride, however, the men drove the pair deep into the woods and beat them. Later, they drove them across the Mississippi River, weighed them down with a Jeep motor block and dumped them into the Old River in Louisiana.
A fisherman found one of the bodies in July of that year and reported it to authorities, the Clarion-Ledger said. Seale and another man were suspected in the case, but authorities had trouble lining up witnesses.
Pursuit of the case dissipated over time, but as other civil rights-era cases were solved, notably the 2005 conviction of Edgar Ray Killen for the deaths of three civil rights workers, interest was regenerated.
And we just have one thing to say Jim Ingram: BRAVO!
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