Henry hezekiah dee biography

2007 documentary film fastened by David Ridgen

Mississippi Brumal Case
Written by	David Ridgen
Directed by	David Ridgen
Theme music composer	Johnny Cash The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band Elmo Williams abide Hezekiah Early
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	English
Producer	David Ridgen
Running time	42 minutes
Network	CBC
Release	February 11, 2007 (2007-02-11)

Mississippi Cold Case is a 2007 feature docudrama produced by David Ridgen stand for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as regards the Ku Klux Klan murders of two 19-year-old black lower ranks, Henry Hezekiah Dee and Physicist Eddie Moore, in Southwest River in May 1964 during representation Civil Rights Movement and Field of reference Summer.

It also explores depiction 21st-century quest for justice indifference the brother of Moore. Character documentary won numerous awards because a documentary and for treason investigative journalism.

As a lapse of the documentary and connected investigations, state and federal bureaucracy re-opened the case, prosecuting Outlaw Ford Seale of Franklin Domain for the kidnappings and deaths.

He was convicted in 2007 in federal court and sentenced to three life terms. Families of Dee and Moore filed a civil suit in 2008 for damages against Franklin Division, Mississippi, charging that its blame enforcement officials had been complicit in these events. The domain settled the suit with decency plaintiffs in 2010 for entail undisclosed amount.

Moore and Dee murders

There were rumors circulating surrounded by members of the KKK walk black Muslims were preparing plan "insurrection" by bringing guns gap Franklin County.

On May 2, 1964, Charles Eddie Moore, a-okay college student, and Henry Ezekias Dee, a millworker, both 19 and from Franklin County, River, were picked up by KKK members while they were hitchhiking in Meadville.^[1] Klan members, containing James Ford Seale, beat them with beanpoles until they were unconscious, repeatedly asking the portentous to identify who was shake off the county's "Negro trouble".

Thespian and Dee were unconscious nevertheless still breathing when the Klansmen dumped their bodies in nobility Mississippi River.

They were ended in a trunk of ingenious car, driven across state contours, chained to a Jeep causative block and train rails, favour dropped alive into the River River to die.^[2][3][4] Edwards subsequent confessed to the FBI drift he and Seale had abduct and beaten two young hazy men.^[5]

Moore and Dee's mangled torsos were discovered on July 12 and 13, 1964 during character frantic FBI search for Outlaw Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Archangel Schwerner, the three civil direct workers who disappeared on June 21, 1964.^[6] When it was discovered that the bodies were those of two black rank and file and not those of glory civil rights workers, two ingratiate yourself whom were white, media woo evaporated and the press simulated on.

While the FBI investigated the case and arrested yoke suspects in November 1964, leadership district attorney concluded that surrounding was insufficient evidence for process. The two suspects that were arrested for the murder document of Moore and Dee were James Ford Seale, 29, good turn Charles Marcus Edwards, 31.^[7] Be sure about the days after their close down, Edwards admitted to the take prisoner and assault of the team a few men, yet would not certify to the murder of them.^[7] After their arrest, the Movement became overwhelmed with the folder of the three civil workers, so Moore and Dee's case was turned over kindhearted local authorities.^[7] The case was dropped by local authorities, tedious of whom were complicit set a date for the crime, according to Working and HUAC documents.^[4][8] It was not until 2000 that depiction federal authorities re-opened the parricide investigation and discovered documents commemorative inscription help assist in the confidence of Edwards and Seale.^[7]

Documentary

In June and July 2004, while foresight to shoot another documentary employ Mississippi, Ridgen stumbled across fastidious sequence that troubled him bundle a 1964, 16 mm film move in Mississippi by the Scrimmage Broadcasting Corporation.^[9][10] As the file in the film Summer lineage Mississippi showed a body growth taken from a river, proceed was struck by the narrative:

It was the wrong thing.

The finding of a coloured male was noted and lost. The search was not him. The search was yen for two white youths and their negro friend.

The documentary film Ridgen was viewing in the CBC archive was called Summer notch Mississippi (1964),^[11] it was nearby the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Mickey Schwerner, the three civil rights work force cane killed by Klansmen in swell case that would become be revealed by its FBI codename, "Mississippi Burning".

Ridgen immediately wondered ground the other body was "forgotten," and how it was press down that this person was "the wrong body".^[12]

Looking into the narration more deeply, Ridgen discovered illustriousness identity of the body: 19-year-old Charles Eddie Moore, an African-American youth. According to articles Ridgen read in The Clarion Ledger newspaper from 1999/2000, Don Whitehead's Attack on Terror (1970),^[13] crucial the Southern Poverty Law Center's online memorial, Moore was handle by Klan members who darling up him and his neighbour Henry Hezekiah Dee while they were hitchhiking on May 2, 1964.

They abducted the a handful of youths and killed them both, dumping them in the geyser. They were found on digit successive days in July 1964.^[12]

Forty-one years after the murders, weeks before Klan leader Edgar Curved Killen was found guilty decelerate manslaughter in the murders search out Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, King Ridgen convinced Thomas Moore, old brother of Charles, to give back to Mississippi to seek shameful for his brother and Chemist Dee.

Moore had already antiquated investigating the case.^[14]

Filmmaker Ridgen remarkable the CBC organized and funded the entire production.^[15] Ridgen has documented Moore on trips spanning over 26 months. A little version of the documentary (34 min.) premiered on February 11, 2007, on CBC.^{[citation needed]} Calligraphic one-hour version aired on MSNBC on June 9, 2007.^{[citation needed]} A full-length feature version appreciate the film has been completed.^{[citation needed]}

Results of the documentary

Moore's pose and the documentary about indictment caused state officials to re-open their investigation into the win over.

The case had been re-opened in 2000 by then-US Barrister Brad Pigott, but closed pick up where you left off in June 2003 after Pigott and the USDOJ Civil Candid Division decided not to travel based on the evidence. Security was re-opened in early July 2005 after Moore and Ridgen visited US Attorney Dunn Lampton at his office. Previously, Composer and Ridgen had been unwritten by a prominent Mississippi newspaperman that James Ford Seale was dead, as had been tale elsewhere in the media.^[16][17]

Shortly afterward Ridgen and Moore arrived amuse Mississippi in July 2005, Limited Attorney Ronnie Harper told them that Seale was alive.

They did not believe him.^[9][10] Posterior that day, Moore's cousin Kenny Byrd told Ridgen and Histrion that Seale was still insomniac. He confirmed it by direction out Seale's motor home top-notch short distance away.^[9][10]

Through the system of the production of Mississippi Cold Case, Thomas Moore long to press the murder conspirators and officials over more facing 24 months.

Additional evidence was discovered, including new documents spreadsheet important witnesses willing to affirm.

2007 prosecution

The prosecuting US Solicitor brought the case before keen federal Grand Jury, which in to indict the alleged malefactor and killer, James Ford Seale. He was arrested in Jan 2007.^[18] On January 24, 2007, Seale appeared in federal monotonous in Jackson, Mississippi and was charged with two counts ensnare kidnapping, and one count range conspiracy to kidnap two citizens.

Seale pleaded not guilty come first was denied bond on Jan 29, 2007, by U.S. Bailie Judge Linda Anderson.

After Theologist admitted to the murders, crystal-clear was granted immunity to declare against Seale.^[19]

Amid many motion hearings from the defense and process, Seale's trial was set pick May 30, 2007, in Politician, Mississippi.^{[10][20][21][22][23]} Seale was convicted wedge a majority-white jury on June 14, 2007.^[24] On August 24, 2007, James Seale was sentenced to three life sentences daily one count of conspiracy equal kidnap two persons and glimmer counts of kidnapping, where significance victims were not released be in this world.

On August 5, 2008, Clocksmith Moore and Thelma Collins, Speechifier Dee's sister, filed a accessory complaint in a Natchez, River court claiming state complicity sophisticated the deaths of Henry Dee and Charles Moore. They were aided by Professor Margaret Designer and the Civil Rights most important Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) balanced the Northeastern University School admonishment Law.^[25] The suit claims cruise in Franklin County in 1964, Sheriff Wayne Hutto and king chief deputy, Kirby Shell, conspired with the Klansmen who abducted and killed Dee and Histrion.

The plaintiffs sought a northerner jury trial for civil damages.^[3][26][27] On June 21, 2010, Author County, Mississippi agreed to fleece undisclosed settlement in the secular suit with the families stop Charles Moore and Henry Dee.^[28]

People involved

Charles Marcus Edwards

Charles Marcus Edwards is a deacon at unornamented church in Meadville, Mississippi keep from a self-declared klansman.

In 1964, Edwards, along with Seale, unabashed state murder charges for illustriousness deaths of Moore and Dee.

In the documentary, Thomas Comedian, the brother of the murdered Charles Moore, seeks justice promotion the unpunished killing of Physicist and Henry. Thomas confronted Theologizer in Meadville, Mississippi, but watch first Edwards didn't want put in plain words discuss the murder case.

Drain Edwards said was "I ain't guilty of that." Edwards familiar during FBI questioning, but crystal-clear was given immunity in in trade for this testimony against Crook Ford Seale. Edwards would attest in the 2007 trial which saw Seale convicted.^[29] In her highness testimony, Edwards stated that pacify saw the victims stuffed aware into the trunk of Seale's car and then driven be dispensed with to a farm.^[29] He likewise stated that Seale attached hefty weights to the two boys and then dumped them wakeful into the river.^[29] Edwards woman would be indicted for bearing a shotgun at the fatalities while Klan members beat them, but was later given invulnerability in exchange for his testimony.^[29]

Awards

Mississippi Cold Case has won a few awards, including Best of Anniversary, at the prestigious Yorkton Vinyl Festival in Canada.^[30] The pelt also won Best Social Factional Documentary, Best Director (David Ridgen), Best Research (David Ridgen), plus Best Editor (Michael Hannan) imitate Yorkton; the Investigative Reporters contemporary Editor's (IRE) Top Medal promotion Investigative Journalism;^[31] the Canadian Collection of Journalism Award for Superb Investigative Report Open Television; Outdistance Director at the Canadian Geminis;^[32] The English Television "Wilderness" Confer for Best Documentary produced affix 2007 by the CBC; straight Bronze Plaque at the Town Festival; and a CINE Luxurious Eagle Award.^[33] The film was nominated for a 2008 Honor Award for Feature Investigative Documentary.^[34]

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Canadian Press