Jerry Mitchell

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First Reported Mar 09 2010 - Updated Mar 09 2010 - 1 Documents

Ku Klux Klan

Was the assassin of Martin Luther King Jr. after a $100,000 KKK bounty?

Was James Earl Ray, the assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., motivated at least in part to kill the civil rights leader by a $100,000 bounty offered by a Mississippi Ku Klux Klan group?Jerry Mitchell, an investigative reporter for the The Clarion-Ledger ... [Published Mar 09 2010 by USA Today]

Entities: Jerry Mitchell, Ku Klux Klan, Martin Luther King Jr

First Reported Mar 04 2010 - Updated Mar 04 2010 - 1 Documents

Hank Klibanoff

CIR responds to FBI decision to close unsolved civil rights cases

the past 20 years, every unsolved civil rights murder case that has been reopened and successfully prosecuted in the South was the direct result of an investigation initiated by a journalist.So the FBI’s decision to close, without prosecution or further ... [Published Mar 04 2010 by Muckraker]

Entities: Civil Rights, Hank Klibanoff, Federal Bureau of Investigation

First Reported Feb 27 2010 - Updated Feb 27 2010 - 1 Documents

Fair Map petitions available: Bivins, Mitchell rapped for having forms in offices

Feb. 27--ROCK FALLS -- Some Illinois citizens have mobilized to ensure more fairly drawn legislative districts. A petition drive to get the Fair Map Amendment on the November ballot is in full swing; 500,000 signatures are needed by May 2.Petitions had ... [Published Feb 27 2010 by Poten & Partners]

Entities: Tim Bivins, Jerry Mitchell, Petition

First Reported Jan 27 2010 - Updated Jan 27 2010 - 1 Documents

How a journalist sent a Klansman to jail for a 40-year-old murder

Matt sez, "Jerry Mitchell is a local reporter here in Jackson, Mississippi who recently won a MacArthur Genius Grant for his investigations into previously unresolved Civil Rights Era murders. These investigations led to prison sentences for men who ... [Published Jan 27 2010 by Boing Boing]

Entities: Homicide, Jerry Mitchell, Civil Rights

First Reported Oct 21 2009 - Updated Oct 21 2009 - 1 Documents

Barry Sonnenfeld

Tuesday Night Viewers Guide [Viewers Guide]

Martha tries to spruce up Jay's ratings, Ed Norton joins Jimmy Kimmell, while most other hosts take the week off. What a bunch of deadbeats! We've got your rundown of what to watch tonight. The Jay Leno Show - Martha Stewart , Ludacris ... [Published Oct 21 2009 by Gawker]

Entities: Barry Sonnenfeld, Jerry Mitchell, Paul Shaffer, Ed Norton

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How a journalist sent a Klansman to jail for a ... [Boing Boing - Jan 27 2010] Matt sez, "Jerry Mitchell is a local reporter here in Jackson, Mississippi who recently won a MacArthur Genius Grant for his investigations into previously unresolved ...
‘All He Did Was Lie’: Medgar Evers’s Brother to... [WSJ.com: Law Blog - Jan 05 2010] The rules on presidential pardons go like this: there really aren’t any. While most of the pardons come at the end of a president’s last term, a president can pardon ...
The End of A Scandal? DeLaughter Gets 18 Months... [WSJ.com: Law Blog - Nov 16 2009] It’s been some time since we blogged about the Dickie Scruggs scandal, which took up so many of our waking moments back in late 2007 and early 2008. But since ...
Tuesday Night Viewers Guide [Viewers Guide] [Gawker - Oct 21 2009] Martha tries to spruce up Jay's ratings, Ed Norton joins Jimmy Kimmell, while most other hosts take the week off. What a bunch of deadbeats! We've got your rundown ...