Last night 60 Minutes featured 3 great stories. I intend to highlight each of them. For today, I'm going to post the story of the murder of Louis Allen. It was by far the most troubling of the three stories. It featured the story of a black man in Mississippi who was murdered in the 1960's because he claimed he had witnessed a white Congressman shoot a black man, had been pressured into lying that the shooting had been self-defense, had come forward, and was murdered.
The main suspect, and also the investigator of the murder, was a deputy sheriff who is sill alive. The interviews were pretty scary. It is unbelievable to me how awful the South was back then, and how bad things are now, just because so many of those crimes have been lied about and lived with for 50 or 60 years.
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