FBI seeks answers in Civil Rights-era killings

• Advocate staff report
• Published: Nov 19, 2009 - Page: 1B

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The FBI’s Civil Rights-era Cold Case Initiative is investigating 108 unsolved civil rights slayings.

At a screening Wednesday night of a documentary by Baker native and Emmy-nominated filmmaker Keith Beauchamp at Southern University, the federal agency distributed information on 33 of the cases, including four from Louisiana: 

• Izell Henry, who died July 28, 1954, in Greensburg. Two people claimed they found Henry in a roadside ditch about a mile from his home. They transported him to Lallie Kemp Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
• Washington Parish Deputy Sheriff O’Neal Moore, who died June 2, 1965, in Varnado.
• Frank Morris, died Dec. 10, 1964, in Ferriday.
• Robert Wilder or John Wesley Wilder, who died June 17, 1965. The place of his death was not released Wednesday.

The FBI is asking that anyone with information concerning these cases to contact their local FBI office.

The agency is offering monetary rewards for information leading to the indictment, arrest and conviction of anyone responsible for the 1965 slaying of Moore and attempted murder of Deputy Sheriff David Rogers in Varnado, as well as the 1964 Morris slaying.