Archival materials related to Dee & Moore

Henry Dee's autopsy report, detailing the contents of his pockets and the condition of his remains, from the FBI files on the Dee and Moore case.

The first FBI documents that Thomas Moore saw about his brother's case were from a nine-page summary of information gathered from confidential informant JN-30 (later identified as high-ranking klansman, Ernest Gilbert).

And this set of documents — heavily redacted so as not to jeopardize the case — were what Thomas chose to give to Charles Marcus Edwards during their meeting at the Bunkley Baptist Church.

Edwards confessed his role in the crime a few weeks later, but testified at the James Ford Seale trial that he had ripped up the documents and never read them.

An excerpt from the transcript of the James Ford Seale trial showing the government's opening arguments. They were delivered by co-lead prosecutor Paige Fitzgerald, from the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division.

Here, the five men who were involved in picking up Henry Dee and Charles Moore are named.

In the early winter of 1966, some of the men involved in the murder of Henry Dee and Charles Moore were brought before the House Committee on un-American Activities (HUAC) in Washington, D.C.

HUAC, infamous for investigating alleged communists in America, was now investigating the Klan.

When questioned about these murders and other acts of violence, every single one of the klansmen called before congress took the Fifth Amendment, and refused to answer.

This is the HUAC file for Clyde Seale, James Ford Seale's father and a member of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

During his arrest in November 1964, James Ford Seale made a partial admission, recorded here by FBI special agent Edward Putz.

Evidence of payment to FBI confidential informant JN-30 (later confirmed to be high-ranking Klansman Ernest Gilbert) for information about the Dee and Moore case.

During his arrest in November 1964, Charles Marcus Edwards apparently made an admission to law enforcement officers.

Below you'll find the affidavit, detailing the arrest and Edwards' partial confession, signed by Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol officer Gwin Cole.

Courtesy of the McCain Library & Archives, University of Southern Mississippi.