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Was Silver Dollar Group's perfected bomb meant for Metcalfe, not Jackson? by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, July 29th, 2010 @ 8:09 am Read More…  The bomb that killed Wharlest Jackson in 1967 could have been the result of three years of experimentation with explosives by Klansmen who had one primary goal -- to murder George Metcalfe.

A drowning, a kiss triggered Joseph Edwards murder by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, May 6th, 2010 @ 8:29 am Read More…  James Buford Goss was calm by the time he talked to Vidalia's police chief at the old Concordia Parish Courthouse on the morning of Friday, July 10, 1964. He had been furious the night before.

Morville Lounge owner caught in Klan, Mafia crossfire by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 @ 8:13 am Read More…  J.D. Richardson found himself in the crossfire of Klansmen and the Mafia over the operation of the Morville Lounge in 1965 and 1966. By late 1966 he felt he had lost control of his own property, was being pressured by the FBI for information on lounge operations, complained that his life had been threatened on several occasions and reported that arsonists may have been responsible for the destruction of his home.

1965 Concordia lounge arsons linked to KKK / Silver Dollar Group by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, April 15th, 2010 @ 8:51 am Read More…  PHOTO: A fisherman stands in front of The Blue Heaven, a cafe/lounge operated by Reef Freeman on Horseshoe Lake at Monterey which was destroyed by in electrical fire one afternoon in 1963. A new building was soon constructed in its place where Freeman reopened his lounge under the name "Reef's Place". In February 1964, "Reef's Place" -- about 4,800 sq. ft. -- was destroyed in an arson which the FBI linked to the Monterey Klan and the notorious Silver Dollar Group. (Photo courtesy Bill Atkins.) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Daughters say top FBI informant -- Coonie Poissot -- lived for the chase by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, April 1st, 2010 @ 8:26 am Read More…  Two daughters of a man who was a Concordia Parish Klansman in the mid-1960s have different views of their father, one of the FBI's top informants in the 1964 murder of Ferriday shoe shop owner Frank Morris and other Klan violence.

Morris' best friend -- James White Sr. -- shot Klansman during shootout in 1964 by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, March 25th, 2010 @ 8:01 am Read More…  Frank Morris and James White Sr. were best friends, so close that some folks believed the two were related though they were not. When Morris at the age of 51 was fatally injured during the arson of his shoe shop in Ferriday by Klansmen in December 1964, White, 45, went to see him at the hospital.

Deputy DeLaughter seen with stranger in green car on night of Morris fire by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, March 11th, 2010 @ 7:49 am Read More…  The night of the arson of Frank Morris' shoe shop in 1964 was a busy one for 17-year-old Delbert Matthews, who recalls working alone at the Coast Service Station near the outskirts of Ferriday. The station was just two blocks south of the shoe shop along U.S. Hwy. 84.

Beckwith recalls terrifying late night threat after Morris murder: 'You're next' by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, March 4th, 2010 @ 8:16 am Read More…  A short time after Frank Morris died as a result of the arson of his shoe shop, two black men were run out of Ferriday because the Klan and sheriff's deputies feared they could identify the men who killed Morris.

Was shoe shop arson done by Tallulah wrecking crew? by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, February 11th, 2010 @ 8:15 am Read More…  Did a "wrecking crew" from the Tallulah unit of the Original Knights of the Ku Klux Klan set Frank Morris' shoe shop on fire in 1964?

Was Frank Morris killed over deputy Frank DeLaughter's cowboy boots? by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, February 4th, 2010 @ 9:29 am Read More…  Klan informants told FBI agents in 1967 that Concordia Parish Sheriff's Office deputy Frank DeLaughter had it out for Frank Morris, a black man, because the Ferriday shoe shop owner may have done something not even a white man would dare do in 1964 -- stand up to the notoriously violent deputy.

In 1967, Klan leader E.L. McDaniel linked four men to 1964 Frank Morris murder by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, January 28th, 2010 @ 8:57 am Read More…  Natchez Klan leader E.L. McDaniel, who became an FBI informant, told the bureau in 1967 that Klansmen from Ferriday and Natchez may have been responsible for the arson murder of Ferriday shoe shop owner Frank Morris because of complaints that Morris was flirting with white women.

Questions of baptism and faith following Frank Morris murder by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, January 7th, 2010 @ 8:41 am Read More…  In 1964, the value of a black man's life weighed on the minds of a handful of white people daring enough to speak out and take a stand at a time of widespread Klan violence against blacks and the white people who supported Civil Rights.

U.S. Atty. Donald Washington stepping down; Morris murder probe will continue posted Thursday, January 7th, 2010 @ 8:03 am Read More…  U.S. Atty. Donald W. Washington, who led the new investigation into the 1964 murder of Ferriday shoe shop owner Frank Morris, announced Thursday that he will step down from his office effective January 18.

FBI docs say Jack Seale thwarted Klansman's idea to bomb MIBURN jurors by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, November 19th, 2009 @ 8:39 am Read More…  A Natchez Klansmen became one of the FBI's most productive and effective informants in 1967 and was credited in preventing violence against federal jurors who convicted seven Klansmen for the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Neshoba County, Miss.

Retired FBI agents unsure who killed Morris, Edwards by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, November 5th, 2009 @ 8:00 am Read More…  Five retired FBI agents -- four who worked in Concordia and one who worked in Natchez in the 1960s -- say they are unsure who killed Ferriday shoe shop owner Frank Morris or Vidalia motel employee Joseph "JoeEd" Edwards four decades ago.

James Ford Seale: A sheriff's election, nine deaths and a silver dollar by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 @ 8:08 am Read More…  In 1967, James Ford Seale, a 32-year-old violent Klansman who had thus far escaped prosecution, was known to carry a silver dollar in his pocket when he threw his hat into the ring for sheriff of Franklin County, Miss.

Ex-Klansman said Red Glover admitted to Metcalfe bombing by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, September 17th, 2009 @ 8:13 am Read More…  In 1967 an itinerant trucker who was a Concordia Parish Klansman in 1965 told FBI agents that he was present when another Klansman, Raleigh Jackson "Red" Glover, admitted planting the bomb that seriously injured a Natchez NAACP leader in late summer 1965.

SDG leader 'Red' Glover was lead suspect in Wharlest Jackson murder by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 @ 9:02 am Read More…  The lead suspect in the murder of Wharlest Jackson in 1967 was a 45-year-old Armstrong Tire & Rubber Plant tirebuilder whom the FBI identified as the leader of a violent Ku Klux Klan unit known as the Silver Dollar Group.

Search for KKK leader Sam Bowers led to discovery of Morville Lounge by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, August 20th, 2009 @ 8:13 am Read More…  A search for notorious Klan leader Sam Bowers inadvertently led the FBI in the fall of 1966 to the Mafia-operated prostitution and gambling den known as the Morville Lounge, well hidden behind the Mississippi River levee at Deer Park in Concordia Parish.

Flesh found by fisherman in 1964 may have been remains of JoeEd Edwards by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, July 30th, 2009 @ 8:13 am Read More…  Longtime commercial fisherman Milton "Ouddie" Boothe of Harrisonburg recalled the day in 1964 when he "laid a seine close to the bank" of Old River at Deer Park in Concordia Parish.

Witness saw Joe-Ed Edwards' Buick pulled over by police car by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 @ 7:52 am Read More…  Before he vanished in the muggy heat of a summer night on July 12, 1964 -- 45 years ago this month -- Joseph "JoeEd" Edwards saw the flashing red light of a police car in the rearview mirror of his white-over-green 1958 Buick.

Morris investigation takes a turn posted Thursday, June 25th, 2009 @ 8:14 am Read More…  The ongoing probe of an unsolved civil rights era murder in Ferriday took an interesting turn this week.

DA joins U.S. Attorney in Morris probe; Grand Jury may hear case by Stanley Nelson - posted Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 @ 3:02 pm Read More…  Federal and parish prosecutors are combining forces in the investigation of the 1964 murder of black Ferriday shoe shop owner Frank Morris and the case may go before the parish Grand Jury.

The day a dying ex-Klansman gave God his 'untold story by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, June 11th, 2009 @ 8:23 am Read More…  At Riverland Medical Center in Ferriday in the winter of 1988, Earcel Boyd Sr., 64, was near death.

Encounters with Concordia sheriff's deputy Frank DeLaughter in 1960s by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, June 4th, 2009 @ 8:09 am Read More…  Forty-five years ago Gene McLain of Vidalia, then 19 and living in Ferriday, witnessed a scene so disturbing involving then-Concordia Parish Sheriff's Deputy Frank DeLaughter that it left McLain shaken for days.

FBI's Lancaster sought 'dying declaration' from Frank Morris by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, May 21st, 2009 @ 3:41 pm Read More…  Because FBI agent Paul Lancaster was certain Frank Morris was going to die, he tried to get the Ferriday shoe shop owner to identify his attackers with a "dying declaration."

Prosecutions are in order posted Thursday, May 21st, 2009 @ 3:14 pm Read More…  U.S. Attorney Donald Washington recently spoke to the Concordia Sentinel about the progress of the federal government's investigation into the death of Frank Morris.

Feds shift gears in Morris probe; some witnesses 'untruthful' by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, May 7th, 2009 @ 8:07 am Read More…  U.S. Attorney Donald Washington of Lafayette said the investigation into the 1964 murder of black businessman Frank Morris of Ferriday has shifted gears and that some of the individuals recently interviewed by the FBI may have lied.

Hanna papers win 13 press awards posted Thursday, April 30th, 2009 @ 8:53 am Read More…  Hanna Newspapers -- The Concordia Sentinel of Ferriday, Franklin Sun of Winnsboro and Ouachita Citizen of West Monroe -- combined to win 13 awards Saturday at the 129th Annual Louisiana Press Association Convention in Baton Rouge.

'Bone Lady' returns to Clayton Tuesday in search for Joseph Edwards by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 @ 8:06 am Read More…  It's a long shot at best, but an LSU forensic anthropologist will lead a team of assistants and anthropology students to Clayton on Tuesday in a scientific search for Joseph "JoeEd" Edwards, missing and believed kidnapped and murdered by the Ku Klux Klan 45 years ago.

Bone Lady returning to Clayton in search for JoeEd Edwards by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, March 26th, 2009 @ 8:18 am Read More…  LSU forensic anthropologist Mary H. Manhein will return to Concordia Parish this summer to search for skeletal remains near the site of the discovery of a human skull in 2002.

Syracuse professors honored for cold case work posted Monday, March 23rd, 2009 @ 2:47 pm Read More…  Two Syracuse University law professors whose initial interest in investigating the death of Ferriday shoe shop owner Frank Morris two years ago led to the creation of the Cold Case Justice Initiative have been honored by the university.

1968 FBI report on Cario's bomb threat says deputy in control of Concordia by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, March 19th, 2009 @ 8:02 am Read More…  A Concordia Parish sheriff's deputy who was questioned in the 1964 murder of a Ferriday shoe shop owner may have been the most powerful local law enforcement official in the parish in 1968, FBI documents reveal.

Earcel Boyd's spiritual journey -- the pulpit and the Klan by Stanley Nelson - posted Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 @ 12:36 pm Read More…  As a young man before World War II, Earcel Boyd Sr. accepted Christ as his personal savior and joined the Baptist Church. But a decade later in the late 1940s, he had lost his faith, was a heavy drinker and a gambler.

Klansmen 'took great pride' in refining bombing skills by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 @ 9:32 am Read More…  One day in the 1960s, a military fighter jet on maneuvers rocketed over the Concordia sky faster than the speed of sound -- 767-plus miles per hour. A sonic boom followed in the aircraft's wake, a thunderclap so powerful that it rattled the windows of the Earcel Boyd Sr. home on 140 Crestview Drive in Ridgecrest.

Klansman's son recalls Shamrock, Silver Dollar Group, meeting Joe Edwards by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, January 15th, 2009 @ 8:34 am Read More…  In 1964, as Ku Klux Klan groups were growing in Concordia Parish and the Natchez area, members were fighting among themselves over competing strategies for enforcing segregation, differing views on the role of violence and deep suspicions that some Klansmen had been recruited by the FBI as informants.

Civil Rights' group, rogue Klansmen blamed for Morris arson by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, January 8th, 2009 @ 8:03 am Read More…  'THE FIERY CROSS' -- KKK PROPAGANDA SHEET -- MADE SCANDALOUS ACCUSATIONS

Brothers say father -- a Silver Dollar Klansman -- 'livid' over Morris murder by Stanley Nelson - posted Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 @ 8:24 am Read More…  Forty-four years have passed, but Leland Boyd can still recall the shock he felt as a 12 year old when he first saw the charred, smoking rubble of Frank Morris's shoe shop on the morning of Dec. 10, 1964.

Morris' granddaughter says FBI $10,000 reward gives her new hope by Stanley Nelson - posted Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 @ 11:20 am Read More…  On the 44th anniversary of the arson of Frank Morris' shoe shop in Ferriday, the FBI announced today it is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and indictment of those responsible for Morris' death.

FBI interviewed three IP workers for December 1964 murder of Frank Morris by Stanley Nelson - posted Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 @ 8:20 am Read More…  ONE OF THE MEN A SUSPECT IN ARSON OF JAKE'S PLACE IN NATCHEZ FOUR MONTHS EARLIER

Five motives for Morris' murder by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, November 13th, 2008 @ 8:50 am Read More…  Why would anyone want to kill Frank Morris?

Rev. Robert Lee on Obama's election: 'I never thought such a day would come' by Stanley Nelson - posted Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 @ 3:15 pm Read More…  The Rev. Robert Lee Jr., who turned 95 in August, never expected in his lifetime to see American voters given the opportunity to do what they did on Tuesday.

Shamrock employee JoeEd Edwards 'skinned alive' in 1964, informant told FBI by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 @ 8:03 am Read More…  In late 1964, FBI agent Billy Bob Williams was so disturbed about the gruesome method of murder he believed the Ku Klux Klan used on a black Vidalia motel employee that he contacted a Natchez physician.

U.S. Attorney to hold status meeting Friday on Morris murder probe by Stanley Nelson - posted Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 @ 3:24 pm Read More…  Federal officials will discuss the status of the investigation into the 1964 murder of Ferriday shoe shop owner Frank Morris on Friday, according U.S. Attorney Donald Washington of Lafayette.

PHOTO -- Natchez Police Officers, November 1963 posted Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 @ 3:12 pm Read More…

Passage of Till bill may benefit local cold case probes, prosecutions by Stanley Nelson - posted Monday, September 29th, 2008 @ 12:41 pm Read More…  The Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crimes Act, passed in the U.S. Senate by unanimous consent on September 24, could benefit the investigations of local cold cases such as that of Frank Morris, the Ferriday shoe shop owner who was murdered in December 1964.

Morris identified three men in white car as attackers by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, August 28th, 2008 @ 8:27 am Read More…  NEW CLUES EMERGE FROM FBI TRANSCRIPTS OF MORRIS HOSPITAL INTERVIEWS

Transcripts of two FBI interviews with Frank Morris at Ferriday hospital posted Thursday, August 28th, 2008 @ 8:25 am Read More…  The first interview of Frank Morris, occurred at 6:35 a.m., Dec. 10, 1964, hours after the 2 a.m. fire. Present were Chief of Police Bob Warren, an FBI agent and an employee of the Ferriday Fire Department. This interview, which is redacted, was obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.

Is skull found in Clayton remains of JoeEd Edwards? by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, July 24th, 2008 @ 8:15 am Read More…  THE BONE LADY -- LSU'S MARY MANHEIN -- MAY BE ABLE TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION

CNN report on Frank Morris Murder posted Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 @ 2:06 pm Read More…  CNN correspondent Sean Callebs (seated, right) prepares to interview Jake Davis (seated, left) in Ferriday on February 29. Davis recalled the arson of Frank Morris' shoe shop in December 1964. CNN also interviewed the Rev. Robert Lee Jr. and U.S. Attorney Donald Washington. CNN's story on Morris aired last week and can be seen on its website at:

CNN to air piece on Frank Morris murder at 1 p.m. today posted Thursday, July 17th, 2008 @ 9:08 am Read More…  CNN has scheduled a piece at 1 p.m. today on the 1964 murder of Ferriday shoe shop owner Frank Morris.

IP employee James Winston kidnapped at gun point, robbed, beaten in 1964 by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, July 17th, 2008 @ 8:23 am Read More…  Ten months before Frank Morris died as a result of the arson of his shoe shop in December 1964, black men in Adams County -- 15 or more -- were kidnapped at night, held at gun point, beaten, whipped and in some cases robbed.

Shamrock clerk's statement to FBI on Morris murder, Edwards disappearance by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, July 10th, 2008 @ 8:21 am Read More…  WAS JOE-ED EDWARDS KIDNAPPED AT SHAMROCK MOTEL, TAKEN TO MISSISSIPPI, SHOT 30-PLUS TIMES, BODY DUMPED IN RIVER?

Bloody '64: Klan suspected in murders, assaults, bombings by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 @ 8:04 am Read More…  George Metcalfe and Wharlest Jackson survived 1964, a bloody year in which the Ku Klux Klan initiated a reign of terror never before seen in this region.

Rev. Lee visited Morris on deathbed; was to marry JoEd Edwards & girlfriend by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, June 26th, 2008 @ 9:43 am Read More…  Before Frank Morris died in his hospital room, the Rev. Robert E. Lee Jr. paid him a visit and prayed for him.

Bomb that injured Metcalfe made with primer cord by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, June 19th, 2008 @ 8:06 am Read More…  Larry Crawford often watched people move about the parking lot at Armstrong Tire & Rubber Company when he took his lunch break at noon each work day.

Why the Klan bombed George Metcalfe, Wharlest Jackson by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, June 12th, 2008 @ 8:09 am Read More…  JACKSON FAMILY ENJOYED HAPPY LIFE IN NATCHEZ; WHEN MEDGAR EVERS WAS ASSASSINATED EVERYTHING CHANGED In 1951, at the age of 15, Exerlena Williams and a friend left Natchez for Chicago to find work in the excitement of the big city.

The night Wharlest Jackson was murdered -- Feb. 27, 1967 by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, June 5th, 2008 @ 8:23 am Read More…  When an explosion shook the neighborhood around the Armstrong Tire & Rubber plant in Natchez at 8 p.m. on a winter night in 1967, the sound carried all the way to College Hill about seven blocks away where Exerlena Jackson was resting in bed.

Retired FBI agent recalls war with Klan in Natchez/Concordia 1964-1965 by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, May 29th, 2008 @ 8:20 am Read More…  • FIST FIGHT WITH KLANSMAN; NELLIE JACKSON; SILVER DOLLAR GROUP; 16-YEAR-OLD ESCAPES PROSTITUTION

J. Edgar Hoover's interest in Frank Morris murder by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 @ 8:08 am Read More…  Four months after the murder of Ferriday shoe shop owner Frank Morris, a letter sent from Concordia Parish crossed the desk of the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington, D.C.

Search for 'Q11' (oil can) led FBI to home of St. Landry Parish farmer by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, May 15th, 2008 @ 8:06 am Read More…  The search for the owner of the five-gallon oil can found in the rubble of Frank Morris' shoe shop led the FBI to the doorstep of a Eunice farmer who once worked as a deputy sheriff in St. Landry Parish.

Mystery of the suitcase,14 half pints bourbon in rubble of Morris' shoe shop by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, May 8th, 2008 @ 7:57 am Read More…  Deputy Fire Marshall C.W. Pharis of Alexandria told the FBI on Feb. 1, 1965, that his investigation into the arson of Frank Morris' shoe shop in Ferriday revealed the fire originated in the interior of the building.

IN TODAY'S SENTINEL -- WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 2009 posted Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 @ 3:02 pm Read More…  WAL-MART CHECK FOR $270,000 IN FRIDAY MAIL

Blunschi says fire raging when he arrived at Morris' shoe shop by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, May 1st, 2008 @ 8:28 am Read More…  Johnny Blunschi may have been the first volunteer fireman for the Town of Ferriday to arrive on the scene of the fire at Frank Morris' shoe shop during the early morning hours of Dec. 10, 1964.

Emergency room nurse said Frank Morris 'smelled like gasoline' by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, April 24th, 2008 @ 8:17 am Read More…  Frank Morris "smelled like gasoline," said the emergency room nurse when interviewed by the FBI.

PHOTO -- FERRIDAY POLICE DEPARTMENT 1965 posted Thursday, April 17th, 2008 @ 9:02 am Read More…

Sewell, Walsworth saw Morris running from flaming shop; took him to hospital by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, April 10th, 2008 @ 8:23 am Read More…  George Sewell and Kenneth Walsworth will never forget the sight of Frank Morris shortly after he emerged from his flaming shoe shop during the early morning hours of Dec. 10, 1964.

Explosion disturbed quiet December night by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 @ 8:19 am Read More…  A number of people saw Frank Morris during the 24 hours prior to the fire that destroyed his shoe shop, most reporting nothing unusual in Morris' demeanor or routine.

Morris' net worth $23,000 in 1964; That would equal $150,000 today by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, March 27th, 2008 @ 8:32 am Read More…  As Sullivan Morris stood at the bedside of his 51-year-old son in Room 101 of the Concordia Parish Hospital in December 1964, he shook his head in disbelief.

New Era men, Ferriday men, Klansmen prime suspects in Morris murder by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, March 20th, 2008 @ 8:26 am Read More…  Two men from New Era believed to be associated with the Original Knights of the Ku Klux Klan were considered "excellent suspects" in the murder of Ferriday shoe shop owner Frank Morris, according to an FBI informant in March 1965.

Was Frank Morris doing too well in business? by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, March 13th, 2008 @ 8:11 am Read More…  Was Frank Morris murdered simply because he was doing too well as a black businessman in Ferriday in 1964?

Editorial: Cooperation needed in Morris murder posted Thursday, March 13th, 2008 @ 7:59 am Read More…  The death of Frank Morris, the Ferriday shoe shop owner murdered in 1964, was a tragic event in the history of Concordia Parish.

Congress eyed Concordia gambling in '66; Klansmen quizzed; $10,000 poker game by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, March 6th, 2008 @ 8:16 am Read More…  In early 1966, a Congressional subcommittee took a peek at gambling and prostitution in Concordia Parish during a hearing on the activities of the Ku Klux Klan in the United States.

1966 end of the line for Vera, with butterfly tattoo, and the girls of Morville by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, February 28th, 2008 @ 9:11 am Read More…  For Vera with the butterfly tattoo, and the other girls of Morville, mid-summer 1966 was the end of their working days in Concordia Parish.

Morville -- the best little whorehouse in Concordia by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, February 21st, 2008 @ 8:19 am Read More…  In the late fall of 1964, about 13 miles south of Vidalia, three men stood on the river side of the Mississippi River levee on Morville Plantation at Deer Park discussing the opening of a business.

Klansman said Morris warned; Deacons for Defense rescue of Buck Lewis by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, February 14th, 2008 @ 8:29 am Read More…  A Ku Klux Klansman told a Ferriday man that Frank Morris was warned to move out of his shoe shop a short time before a fire destroyed his business and claimed Morris' life in December 1964.

PHOTO -- U. S. Attorney, FBI visit Ferriday January 31, 2008 posted Thursday, February 7th, 2008 @ 2:57 pm Read More…

U.S. Attorney urges witnesses to come forward in Morris case by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, February 7th, 2008 @ 8:24 am Read More…  The federal government's effort to capture the murderers of Frank Morris 43 years ago was intensive and that effort has intensified again.

Frank Morris probe draws U.S. Attorney, FBI to Ferriday by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, January 31st, 2008 @ 8:25 am Read More…  U.S. Atty. Donald Washington of Lafayette, representatives of his office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation will visit Ferriday on Thursday (January 31) as part of the beefed up investigation into the 1964 murder of shoe shop owner Frank Morris.

Three angry men cornered Frank Morris in shop hours before murder by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, January 24th, 2008 @ 8:37 am Read More…  Sometime around dark on the evening of Dec. 9, 1964, 13-year-old Jake Davis and his 12-year-old brother, Jimmy, were sweeping and cleaning Frank Morris' shoe shop in Ferriday when three white men rushed through the front door.

Three Klan rallies in parish in 1964; combined Klan lists total 200 local men by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, January 17th, 2008 @ 8:12 am Read More…  Just a few months before the murder of Ferriday shoe shop owner Frank Morris in December 1964, 14-year-old Johnny Patrick was riding down the highway with two friends -- one old enough to have a driver's license -- when the boys spotted a fire in the distance.

Gunshots in Morgantown signaled changes in Klan membership by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, January 10th, 2008 @ 8:37 am Read More…  In June 1964 residents of the Morgantown community in Natchez were awakened by the sound of gunfire.

HUAC's 1960s probe of Klan organizations by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, January 3rd, 2008 @ 8:19 am Read More…  As U.S. Attorney Donald Washington and U.S. Department of Justice lawyers investigate the murder of Frank Morris, they will find a clear connection between the Klan, some members of law enforcement and a criminal element which thrived in the business of gambling, prostitution and meanness.

U.S. Attorney Donald Washington pledges full review of Frank Morris murder by Stanley Nelson - posted Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008 @ 4:29 pm Read More…  U.S. Attorney Donald Washington of Lafayette has pledged a full review of the 1964 murder of Ferriday shoe shop owner Frank Morris.

PHOTO -- BURNED OUT SHELL OF FRANK MORRIS SHOE SHOP posted Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008 @ 3:58 pm Read More…

PHOTO -- FRANK MORRIS AT SHOE SHOP -- NOVEMBER 1964 posted Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008 @ 3:57 pm Read More…

Silver Dollar Group linked to attacks -- Edwards, Morris, Jackson, Metcalfe by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, December 27th, 2007 @ 8:21 am Read More…  Retired FBI agents confirm that the militant Silver Dollar Group was suspected in some of the most heinous crimes in the mid-1960s in Adams County and Concordia Parish, including the murder of Ferriday shoe shop owner Frank Morris in December 1964.

The Morris family Christmas nightmare -- 1964 by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, December 20th, 2007 @ 8:29 am Read More…  Rosa Williams is coming home for Christmas next week.

Whatever happened to Joseph Edwards? Was he Silver Dollar Group target? by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, December 13th, 2007 @ 8:19 am Read More…  Six months before Frank Morris was murdered in Ferriday in December 1964, a two-toned blue and beige 1958 Buick was found abandoned on Hwy. 84 between Ferriday and Vidalia.

Silver Dollar Group may have targeted Morris; murder planned over coffee? by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, December 6th, 2007 @ 8:21 am Read More…  Frank Morris may have been the first target of a local Klan organization known as the Silver Dollar Group which was determined to kill and spread terror even when Klan leaders were asking for a 90-day moratorium on violence.

FBI says 'individuals' questioned in Frank Morris case by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, November 29th, 2007 @ 9:03 am Read More…  "A number of individuals" have been questioned during the past weeks by the FBI in the investigation of the 1964 murder of Ferriday shoe shop owner Frank Morris, according to a spokesman for the bureau.

Haney's Big House -- a legendary place -- down the street from Morris' shop by Stanley Nelson - posted Monday, November 26th, 2007 @ 9:40 am Read More…  In the 1940s and 1950s, there was no place more famous in Ferriday than a boogie-woogie nightclub on the 500 block of Fourth Street (now E.E. Wallace Blvd.) known as Haney's Big House.

Brother of 1964 murder victim visits Syracuse law students posted Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 @ 3:52 pm Read More…  Thomas Moore, a retired Army Command Sargeant Major, and former Meadville, MS, resident, traveled to Syracuse, N.Y., to consult with Syracuse University Law College faculty and students who are working on the Frank Morris murder investigation.

Brother of 1964 murder victim visits Syracuse law students posted Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 @ 3:52 pm Read More…  Thomas Moore, a retired Army Command Sargeant Major, and former Meadville, MS, resident, traveled to Syracuse, N.Y., to consult with Syracuse University Law College faculty and students who are working on the Frank Morris murder investigation.

John Doar recalls war against the Klan by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, October 11th, 2007 @ 10:23 am Read More…  In the months before Frank Morris was murdered in Ferriday, the FBI had made great strides in beefing up its manpower in an effort to curb violence by the Ku Klux Klan.

The Klan is dead by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, October 4th, 2007 @ 8:04 am Read More…  A nationally recognized authority on the Ku Klux Klan says those who believe the organization still operates in Louisiana and Mississippi are greatly mistaken.

Morris murder reported from Texas to Connecticut by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, September 27th, 2007 @ 8:22 am Read More…  Wire service stories on the arson of Frank Morris' shoe shop in Ferriday, and his death four days later as a result of the fire, were printed by several newspapers across the country and reported on local television newscasts.

Confrontation at Duncan Park in 1965 by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, September 20th, 2007 @ 8:09 am Read More…  The first confrontation between civil rights workers and the Ku Klux Klan in Natchez occurred in the summer of 1965 at Duncan Park.

Confrontation at Duncan Park in 1965 by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, September 20th, 2007 @ 8:09 am Read More…  The first confrontation between civil rights workers and the Ku Klux Klan in Natchez occurred in the summer of 1965 at Duncan Park.

Landrieu says resolution of Morris case crucial; Coburn has hold on Till bill by Stanley Nelson - posted Thursday, September 13th, 2007 @ 8:40 am Read More…  U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu said Tuesday that the FBI's reassessment of the Frank Morris murder case in Ferriday is not only important to Concordia Parish and Louisiana, but to the nation.