Man, hung him in a tree. Who would do something this hideous . In my vision, a brownskinned man in a gray casket, i couldnt tell who he was. And thats when i began to call all my children. When i think about the hurt my mom went through, i cant talk about it. The mobile Police Department just didnt want to believe that mobile would still have klan in it. But they did. The fact that klansmen lived across the street from where this happened, it was something that the Police Officers found more to be a coincidence. Michael donald was an innocent, good samaritan, not a thug. The likely suspects were identified. But we had the wrong people. We felt the cops and the klan working hand in hand. Were calling upon mobiles black community to be as cool as possible in response to this murder. Let there be no doubt, the klan is behind this. But you gotta prove it first. The body of a black man has been found hanging from a tree in mobile, alabama. Lynching is a tool to control and oppress black peo
man, hung him in a tree. who would do something this hideous? in my vision, a brown-skinned man in a gray casket, i couldn t tell who he was. and that s when i began to call all my children. when i think about the hurt my mom went through, i can t talk about it. the mobile police department just didn t want to believe that mobile would still have klan in it. but they did. the fact that klansmen lived across the street from where this happened, it was something that the police officers found more to be a coincidence. michael donald was an innocent, good samaritan, not a thug. the likely suspects were identified. but we had the wrong people. we felt the cops and the klan working hand in hand. we re calling upon mobile s black community to be as cool as possible in response to this murder. let there be no doubt, the klan is behind this. but you gotta prove it first. the body of a black man has been found hanging from a tree in mobile, alabama. lynching is a
black people and do so with impunity, with the legitimization and the seeming permission of law enforcement. bob eddy, he said, chris, this is a klan killing. you not only have the noose, but the typical klan diversionary tactic, burning a cross on the lawn of the county courthouse. bob eddy, in the course of interviewing witnesses, learned that there had been a meeting on wednesday night preceding the friday abduction of michael donald. three days before michael donald was murdered, we had a private meeting which we would have every wednesday for just klan members. bob eddy knew who was at that klan meeting, tiger knowles, frank cox, teddy kyzar, henry
we were both trying to get to the same place, following different paths. on the state side, i went to jeff sessions and said, i ve got this guy named bob eddy. he was chief investigator for the d.a. bob had investigated the klan successfully. bob eddy solved the 63 church bombing in birmingham. the klan felt that they were either protected or purely invincible. their influence and sympathizers were embedded throughout government, throughout law enforcement, in both the city and the state level. in spite of the fact that four innocent negro girls were brutally murdered in a church in birmingham, alabama, not a single arrest has been made. a little over six years after the bombing, i was elected attorney general of alabama.
there are no scapegoats. there s only justice. when i went down to mobile, i never went to the local authorities. they never volunteered anything to me. donald had been hung on a tree, the same block where this group of klan lived. and i m thinking, gee whiz, what better place to start? so i started interviewing these people. and i approached them with the idea they were not the subject of that investigation other than the fact that i want your information. i want to know what you know. and the more i ask questions, the more they talk. i had some photographs of some individuals standing beside a pickup truck, looking at the individual when he was hanging in his tree. i identified a klansman. his name s teddy kyzar, and i went and talked to him.