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 people. Racialized violence is as old as the constitution. Klans are not running around with white sheets over their head, but its still happening. Today, people are horrified of the police. Its the modern day lynching. What are we going to do about it . We move forward with people deciding, im bold enough and im going to make it change. Hewlett mcdonald took on one of the most violent criminal organizations in the United States. This is an incredible story of courage. Here we are in 2020 without a federal antilynching statute. I believe were at a point of reckoning. Lynching today is at the end of a rope, the end of a gun, at the end of a baton, at the end of a taser. Its not merely about the white hood or the blue uniform. Its about us. Its about red, white and blue. We need to declare as a country these acts that were used to instill terror must never be treated as acceptable. Breonna taylors killing saw her through the eyes of a dad that would give up everything to keep his daughter safe. I dont want my daughters to have their door kicked in. Just the idea they took him and hung him, just hung him up, they beat him unmercifully. I wondered, did he have time to know he was going to die . Did he have time to say, lord, have mercy on me . It took courage. It took strength. Because you didnt know who to trust and who not to trust. The mobile Police Department, they sat on it. They would just call and say, were still working on the case. My mom would say, it really gets on my nerves. I dont want them to call me, just tell me that theyve got the person that killed my son. We asked god to send us somebody thats going to help us along the way. The opportunity to come back and to work with the criminal Justice System here in mobile is a good opportunity. Thomas figures, who was the first black assistant u. S. Attorney, hes in a position to push and nudge and keep knocking on doors and making sure that this case does not rest from a criminal standpoint. My uncle felt deep in his heart and soul, just as my father did, that this was a racially motivated attack and the federal government should step in and be involved in the investigation. Jeff sessions was the u. S. Attorney for the Southern District of alabama. We worked with the fbi and the local people, too, to investigate it, and it was difficult to move forward. We just were not making much progress. Jim bodman was appointed by the fbi to get to the bottom of this case. January of 1983, the head of the fbi office came up to me and laid a paper file on my desk, and he said, jim, take this case. The justice department, they will not allow us to close the case. And i asked him, i said, sir, what do you think im going to do with it . I understand everybody in towns been interviewed three times. He said, you take this case and you work it. And he used, i think, maybe even a little stronger terminology, but i sure got the message. So, okay, january of 1983, i get the case. They supposedly kept saying it was a drug case gone bad. It was not a racial case. It was a drug case gone bad. That was not the issue. That case was being reassigned to me because i had experience and background specifically with the klan. As a daughter of the south who was raised in the heart of dixie, Beulan Mae Donald understood what it meant to take on the klan. She understood what it meant in terms of the legacy of racial terrorism by the klan. 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church was targeted by klan members because it was an Organizing Ground for Civil Rights Activity. It was a place from which Martin Luther king organized. The worship hour was chosen to maximize terrorism. I was standing across from the girls over by the sink, and they was a few feet away from me. Addie reached her hand out. Thats when i heard this loud boom. And i said, jesus, addie, addie. But she didnt answer. Everything went dark. I was the only survivor, and i lost my right eye. Those Beautiful Girls was killed for nothing, just for being black. Everybody was klansmen back then in the 60s. The police knew who did it, but they werent going to bring them to the bar of justice, so they just kept it quiet. They even gave these men nicknames. They called cherry, cherry bomb, and they called chambliss, dynamite bomb. They knew who it was. The birmingham Police Department and the Jefferson County sheriffs office, their investigation of the bombing was aimed at this crazy, nutty theory that the blacks themselves had set the bomb, being that they wanted to bomb their own church so that theyd bring sympathy to their cause. In 1963 and in 1981, Black Scapegoats were killed, victims were brutalized, and we as a country have to learn the lesson. There are no scapegoats. Theres 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 im 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 asked questions, the more they talked. I had some photographs of some individuals standing beside a pickup truck looking at the individual when he was hanging on his tree. I identified a klansman. His names teddy kyzar, and i went and talked to him, and i told him, i said, look, teddy, i know you live on Herndon Avenue. Youre there. Tell me what you saw. Well, when the neighbor in apartment one was knocking on the door, i asked him what was the problem. He said there was a black man hanging from a tree out here. I said, you kidding . He said, no. So i went out on the front porch. Sure enough, it was. I stuck to the klansman because i was on the right trail. You said close your eyes dont look down fall into me and ill catch you, darlin well dance in the street like nobodys watching its just you and me celebrate every kiss. Get zero down special financing with the kay jewelers credit card. Somethings happening at ihop. Something. Huge. Antman and the wasp have arrived. Spend 30 on your next visit to ihop and get a fandango movie ticket to see Marvel Studios antman and the wasp quantumania. Out here, youre a landowner, a gardner, a landscaper, and a hunter. Thats why you need versatile, durable kubota equipment. Only at vanguard, youre more than just an investor youre an owner. That means that your goals are ours too. And Vanguard Retirement tools and advice can help you get there. Thats the value of ownership. [sfx stomach gurgling] its nothing. Sounds like something. 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On the state side, i went to Jeff Sessions and said, ive got this guy named bob eddy. He was Chief Investigator for the da. 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 had been made. Well, over six years after the bombing, i was elected attorney general of alabama. That meant i had the real position where i could do something about it. So, i got a terrific investigator named bob eddy. One great witness bob eddy found was chamblisss niece. She testified that two or three days before the bomb went off, robert was ranting and raving about the blacks and demonstrations. And he said, you just wait till sunday, theyll beg us to segregate. Somebody said, what do you mean . Well, he said, youll find out, youll find out. And so, that was pretty powerful, that made an impact on the jury. So baxley and bob eddy and a new light put the pieces of a puzzle together that resulted in the conviction of robert chambliss. But the community knew that there were still others out there other than chambliss that were involved. Justice, freedom and truth and gods people, on the move. The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was carried out by members of the united klan of america, the same organization who killed Michael Donald. Again and again, we have seen white racists take the lives of 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 hayes and benny hayes, the second highest ranking klansman in the state of alabama. Benny hayes was a great titan, which is the third highest ranking official in the united klans. Benny jack hayes wasnt a hardnosed businessman. He could drop a dime in his pocket and pull out a quarter. Benny jack was a very detailed man. He was pure evil when he set his mind to it. Henry hayes was benny hayes son. He was a lifetime member. He was secretary and treasurer. He collected the dues and the minutes and stuff like that. He was a holdover from the late 60s. He was doing his best to be a hippie. He loved to smoke dope. Hed do any drug he could get his hands on. Henry was a very lovable young man, but he made sure to please daddy. And if daddy caught on to some of the stuff he was doing, his daddy would discipline him harshly. It would usually come down to beatings. Even at his adult life, hed let his daddy do to him what he wanted to. Tiger knowles was an entrepreneur on the equal of benny jack hayes. He was very ambitious. I mean, he had his hands in everything. If he could make a dollar, by golly, he was going after it. At 17, i was a regional officer in the klan for south alabama. But yeah, i was second in command. I aspired to be the grand dragon of the state. I thought it would give me political contact, and thats what i was looking for. Tiger was the most volatile of the bunch. I think he mentored under benny jack. You could talk him off the ledge, but he got up on the ledge in a hurry. They were klansmen. They were at that meeting on wednesday night. 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But i wasnt fearful of that. I felt like nothing man could do to me now would affect me as much as michaels death affected me. Im a strong believer. I dont know about man, but i know what god can do. Theres a difference between what you know and what you can prove. The investigation was evolving. Bob eddy was on the case. He was interviewing people. He never took his foot off the gas. Agent bodman, under the direction of Thomas Figures, was out there interviewing klansmen. We knew who committed this crime. We, however, could not prove it without a break. I never once thought that i was not being looked at seriously as a suspect. Law enforcement started to zero in on us more and more. I was bound and determined that i wasnt going to talk to nobody. They were building that narrative, and i just wasnt going to give anybody the satisfaction. Everybody thought i was hiding something. I felt like i was being harassed. My mom and dads phone has gotten tapped twice. My biggest concern was someone saying Something Like henry. Henry had a big mouth. Henrys never said it one way or the other. Of course, he denied it. Teddy kyzar, when interviewed by bob eddy, implicated frank cox in the crossburning. Crossburning . Yeah. Teddy and i burned a cross on the Courthouse Lawn that night. Did we do it to promote a notion . No. But it could have been that jack said, go do it. I said, man, i need a break. I need a break. And teddy, he was hit. I was told that it was a felony and i could be getting 10 years in the penitentiary for that crossburning. It was scary. I am zeroed in. Got my target. Teddy kyzar was the least educated, least intelligent one of the group. The other members of the group made fun of him. They lashed him for doing something in violation of one of unit 900s bylaws. I was whipped with a leather strap that was five inches wide and about six foot long. It was bringing tears to my eyes. But the more i thought about it, the madder i got. And i got where i couldnt feel it. I always showed him respect. So i dont know if treating him as a person had any effect on his wanting to talk to me or confiding in me. But he did. He did. Jim bodman, he said, if youre telling the truth that you had no knowledge of it before or during, you have nothing to worry about, now do you . I said, well, no, youre right. And thats when i started settling down and incorporating with people. The night that Michael Donald was murdered, we had a card game going there in henry hayes apartment, and we was drinking beer. And about 12 oclock, i looked up. Tiger had a blue jeantype shirt on his sleeve, and he was soaked down in blood. I said, i dont know what yall been doing, but tiger, youre soaked down in blood. He looked down at his shirt and saw the blood, so he just ripped it off of himself. I said, what yall been doing . They said they beat up a queer, and they laughed. So i laughed with them. And i said, well, the next thing yall do, i want in on it. He said, well, he had blood on him. Well, now, thats the first time that had come out to my knowledge in the investigation. I found another klansman. So i just asked him, whered the blood come from . That was on tiger that night. He said, oh, he had a nosebleed. And im thinking, sure he did. I didnt know there was anybody murdered until the next morning. I never did leave the porch to go to look at the body. But my attitude back then, i thought it was funny. I laughed. R 396. Shop appliances now backed by the lowes price promise. My asthma felt anything but normal. It was time for a nunormal with nucala. Nucala is a oncemonthly addon treatment for Severe Eosinophilic Asthma that can mean less oral steroids. Not for sudden breathing problems. Allergic reactions can occur. Get help right away for swelling of face, mouth, tongue, or trouble breathing. Infections that can cause shingles have occurred. Dont stop steroids unless told by your doctor. Tell your doctor if you have a parasitic infection. May cause headache, injection site reactions, back pain, and fatigue. Ask your Asthma Specialist about a nunormal with nucala. Beula mae donald sought justice for her son. In 1963 and in 1981, justice means that we hold organizations like the klan, individuals like those murderers, accountable. Black citizens and other minorities have absolutely no protection, no representation in government. Theyd been left to the mercy of local officials. All the time the investigation was going on, we was really trying to dedicate ourselves to keep that from ever happening again in mobile, alabama. And the only way we could do that is try to bring about some change, someone to represent the interests of all the people in the city. Because before that, we didnt have that at all. We get talked at. We get talked about. We are stats. We are stereotypes. We are made a mockery of. We are dismissed. Nobody ever asks us. Nobody ever listens to us. How do we rectify generations of gross, gross injustice . And how do we do that, knowing that if we right those wrongs, its going to be better for everyone . In 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church, Four Little Girls were killed. Sarah collins was maimed and continues to suffer till this very day. I never received any restitution. I didnt receive any counseling going back to school. I was angry for a long time. Why would they kill those innocent girls . They didnt even get a chance to live their life. But these men, they did. They live a good life. It was just wrong. The men who took the lives of Four Little Girls had decades to escape accountability. The investigation was reopened. We indicted blanton and cherry in may of 2000. This verdict today sends a message that the people that bomb and kill our innocent citizens and children, we will never give up. Justice delayed does not have to be justice denied. Those decades cannot be taken back. They cannot be given to those Four Little Girls. So when we think about Michael Donald, we have to ask ourselves, how long will it take for his family to get justice . Thomas figures believed that the klan was responsible for this and that we should pursue it. So the idea was that we would call a grand jury. We would call every witness that was relevant in any way, put them under oath, and question them aggressively. The reason we needed a Federal Grand Jury is because a State Grand Jury convenes for a single session. The lifespan of a Federal Grand Jury can run months. So Federal Grand Jury convenes in may of 1983. Now that we think we know who did it, well bring them in. Theyll lie. You bring them back, theyll lie again. But sooner or later, if you keep hauling them in, somebodys going to break. I had to go before the grand jury. I didnt have the money for a lawyer, and i knew a public defender wouldnt do all that much. They did not get attorneys who advised them to take the fifth amendment. And so they testified before the grand jury. When youre interviewed about a murder before a Federal Grand Jury, youre going to be uncomfortable. Thomas figures was a grinder, in this case, simply tenacious. Thomas figures was really wanting to have me locked up. They kept pushing that point, pushing that point. It makes the pot boil. I was saying the same thing over and over and over again. They often contradicted one another, and they would back up, and they would acknowledge things they hadnt acknowledged before. The klansmen lied. We knew they lied, so we brought them back a second time. And then youd go back to somebody else that said, well, this man just told us this. You better tell us the truth now, and then theyd tell you more. And then some of them lied a second time, and we brought them back a third time. It was a game at that point between the accused and the powers that were trying to convict me or henry or tiger or teddy or benny jack. And you could just begin to see the evidence start developing, the kind of evidence you would need to have a successful prosecution. Thomas was a prosecutor. He was dedicated to that, very dedicated to it. But he was also the kind of person that did not bite his tongue. If he thought something was wrong, he was going to say it was wrong. Sometimes he ran into some friction. Thomas could be very abrupt, and he was riding this departmental attorney big time. I mean, big time riding him. Finally, this attorney looked up at thomas. He told thomas, he said, you know, i could always use a good boot black. Thomas blew up. Thomas figures, this is a black prosecutor in a federal office in the 1980s. Hes Fighting Discrimination from without and discrimination from within. And he has to listen to his colleagues speak to him in condescending ways, including his boss, Jeff Sessions, who says to him, you need to watch the way you speak to white people. And he has to secure the trust of law enforcement. And so Thomas Figures has to walk a tightrope. He wasnt going to ever give up. They may have thought he would, but he was going to ever give up on it. I think the culprits became sensitive to the possibility that among them someone would start pointing fingers. I continued to testify more and more. It was such a blur, not just for me, but from everyone all around. I thought i was way in over my head. I guess it was a combination of grand juries, other klansmen talking. And it was in june of 1983 that Tiger Knowles cracked. Ive always had trouble falling asleep and staying asleep you know, insomnia. But then i found quviviq, an fdaapproved medication for adults with insomnia. And im glad i found it. 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In june of 83, Tiger Knowles appeared before the Federal Grand Jury and knowles confessed. I actually had an attorney and i told him what happened. You would have thought that the devil just passed before his eyes. He completely changed. Next thing you know, hes contacted someone with the mobile Police Department, has me come in and tell the whole story to them. He admitted that he had participated, but was light years away from telling the whole truth and sought a deal. Tiger would assume a demeanor that you dont normally see in a 17yearold murderer. You might as well have been sitting in this restaurant having a coke with him and hearing what he recently did. There was no remorse. There was no contrition. There was no emotion. I thought he was a sociopath. So i said, im not giving him a deal. My attorney, you know, instead of trying to help me figure out how to get this over and done with and try to make amends as much as we could, he pretty much sold me out. I think Tiger Knowles, he thought it was a good thing to do until he did it. Mr. Hayes probably told him, oh, we can do this and nothing will be done to us. And i think he convinced him if you do this, oh, theyll never find out that youve done it. So then he went across town to the federal side, was interviewed by agent jim bodman. June the 10th, 1983, i get a call about midnight. And its from tiger. He wanted to meet me that night. He was going to put me straight. He was tired of me leaning on him. And i said, okay, with some concern. And we agreed to meet in mobile. I go early for our agreed time, ride through the shadows and around through the cars, looking at all these places, trying to see if i or we were being set up. I didnt know what would happen. Theyd already killed one person. So i parked back in the shadows where they couldnt necessarily see me. There was a white man with tiger. And i looked at him and he was his attorney. And i know him. And im thinking, what is he doing here . So we started talking and tiger started saying, ive been before the grand juries. Ive had enough of this. You know, get off my back. I said, tiger, wait a minute. Dont Start Feeding me that same old crap. If thats the best you can do, i said, im going to go home. Im going to go to bed. But i said, i tell you what, i know what happened. You picked up this young man. You took him out to an area. He was scared to death. He was afraid for his life. He started fighting both of you. You couldnt handle him. And you proceeded to beat him to the ground. And you killed him. You killed him. Tiger, i dont think you meant to do it. And so help me, his response was, honest, mr. Bodman, we didnt mean to do it. And i thought, gotcha. Okay. Where did you take him in Baldwin County . Mr. Bodman, you know. I said, yes, but you got to tell me. And so he answered that question. I said, i want to ask you one more question. Howd you get him out in a tree . You couldnt get him up there by yourself. And he named henry. Henry hayes. Got him, man. Got him. I said, ill tell you what. I want you to go home. Dont run off. Dont hide. Dont flee. I said, because you confessed to me, i can save your life. Because in the federal system, the maximum for death resulting was life. So he saw the light. Monday, we will get together, and we will do everything necessary to take care of you. Tiger walks off into the night. If im lucky enough, ill get to heaven i want to ask, lord, thank you. Id solved the case. The boss said, solve the case. I said, its solved. Im glad its all come to light. Michael did no wrong. We knew that my brother had died, the klan had killed him. You know, people have come to me and said, they never found out who killed my sibling, my father, my mother. My brother died and they never found yall are blessed. Yall are truly blessed. 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Right now, switch to Xfinity Mobile and save up to 800 on the new Samsung Galaxy s23 series. To learn more, visit your local xfinity store today. 19yearold Michael Donalds body was found hanging from a tree on Herndon Avenue on march 21st of 1981. Today, fbi officials announced the arrest of james Tiger Knowles. Mr. Knowles plead guilty to a federal civil rights charge. The fbi agent, jim bodman, reported the information up their Chain Of Command to the u. S. Attorneys office. When he was told that he had to cooperate fully to save his life, Thomas Figures and myself met in one of the courtrooms with tiger. He showed up at that point in time. I said, okay, tiger, tell again exactly what you told me. He starts telling him. I dont know all the negotiations that were involved. I trusted the lawyer, and i ended up giving a plea deal. I was the one that said, no. Were not gonna give this guy a deal. He had confessed. And it was a free, knowing, and intelligent, incriminating statement. Then the question was what to do about henry hays. He was 26 years old. I thought it was a Death Penalty case. This will not be tolerated. We can not allow that kind of violent, brutal murder, and a hateful group. We decided a decision was reached that it would be tried by the state district attorney, and alabama had a Death Penalty at that time. I wanted the Africanamerican Community to know that the United States Attorneys Office in mobile, alabama, was not going to back away from tough civil rights cases. I know Jeff Sessions. I think i know him pretty well. If i had to say the amount of effort he put into this, i would say, by position, his name came up. He was the u. S. Attorney. Period at the end of that. When Jeff Sessions was nominated to be a federal judge back in the 1980s, the Michael Donald case was used as a kind of racial shield. I am not a racist. I am not insensitive to blacks. I have supported Civil Rights Activity in my state. Thomas figures testified against his boss in congress, under oath that Jeff Sessions initially tried to dissuade him from bringing the case. I think thomas said it best in his own words. While it is literally true that Jeff Sessions did not, i believe he said, obstruct the investigation, he certainly did not promote this investigation. If the only thing you can point to is that you were the u. S. Attorney when Michael Donalds case was solved, then you dont have much to offer as it relates to working to make sure that all people are treated equal. What we do have is more prosecutions in the First District on Crack Cocaine Convictions and people getting life without parole, i think, than they had here in los angeles. Thats where the time was spent. Im real thankful that Thomas Figures was there. I try to do the right thing all the time, every day, every decision i make. Ive been unfairly accused involving the Michael Donald case. Unfairly accused of not supporting this case, which is not true. I mean, we we advanced it well. And so i just would say, i dont i Tell The Truth and somebody else can write the history. We would try henry in state court for capital murder. But bennie hays, the number two man, would attempt to protect his son. Bennie hays came to my mom and daddys house looking for me. And theres only one reason why he would come looking for me is to shut my mouth, to keep me from talking
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