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Lynchings Re-enacted to Probe Cases

FBI uses ketchup and choreography to solve civil rights cold cases

By Heather McPherson,  Newser User

Posted Jul 27, 2007 2:55 PM CDT
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(Newser) – Graphic re-enactments of lynchings, including ketchup-covered doll ‘fetuses’ ripped from ‘pregnant victims,’ were staged in a Georgia campaign to warm up some cold civil rights cases, CNN reports. Some groups have also offered private rewards, as local and national efforts converge in a desire to bring '60s-era murderers to justice.

Congress is considering a bill that would fund an FBI cold-case initiative, bringing new funds to 100 unsolved crimes. "It's one of the unfinished chapters of the civil rights movement," SPLC president Richard Cohen said of the cold cases. "To simply let them lie because it's been a long time is the worst kind of self-fulfilling prophecy."

Actors recreate lynching of two black couples in Monroe, Ga., Wednesday, July 25, 2007. The lynchings of Roger and Dorothy Malcom, and George and Mae Murray Dorsey on July 25, 1946, have long been a source of racial tension in Monroe, a town about 45 miles east of Atlanta. (AP...
Actors recreate lynching of two black couples in Monroe, Ga., Wednesday, July 25, 2007. The lynchings of Roger and Dorothy Malcom, and George and Mae Murray Dorsey on July 25, 1946, have long been a source...   (Associated Press)
The Rev. Joseph Lowery speaks during a church service to mark the 61th anniversary of the lynching of two black couples in Monroe, Ga., Wednesday, July 25, 2007. The lynchings of Roger and Dorothy Malcom, and George and Mae Murray Dorsey on July 25, 1946, have long been a source...
The Rev. Joseph Lowery speaks during a church service to mark the 61th anniversary of the lynching of two black couples in Monroe, Ga., Wednesday, July 25, 2007. The lynchings of Roger and Dorothy Malcom,...   (Associated Press)
Actor Ed Arnold, dressed as former Georgia Gov. Eugene Talmadge, gives a race-baiting campaign speech, much like the one the Democrat is believed to have made in 1946, Wednesday, July 25, 2007, near the bridge where a white mob lynched two black couples 61 years ago in Monroe, Ga. Talmadge's...
Actor Ed Arnold, dressed as former Georgia Gov. Eugene Talmadge, gives a race-baiting campaign speech, much like the one the Democrat is believed to have made in 1946, Wednesday, July 25, 2007, near the...   (Associated Press)
Actors recreate the lynching of two black couples in Monroe, Ga., Wednesday, July 25, 2007. The lynching's of Roger and Dorothy Malcom, and George and Mae Murray Dorsey on July 25, 1946, have long been a source of racial tension in Monroe, a town about 45 miles east of Atlanta....
Actors recreate the lynching of two black couples in Monroe, Ga., Wednesday, July 25, 2007. The lynching's of Roger and Dorothy Malcom, and George and Mae Murray Dorsey on July 25, 1946, have long been...   (Associated Press)
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