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WENDY MESLEY (HOST):
- WENDY MESLEY (HOST):
The CBC documentary "Mississippi Cold Case" showed how Thomas Moore tracked down his brother's killer. Tonight, he confronts the former Klansman who helped plan the brutal crime.
THOMAS MOORE (BROTHER OF KLU KLUX KLAN VICTIM):
Did you ever think about what if that happened to my son? -
- WENDY MESLEY (HOST):
Tonight, we have a sequel to our award-winning documentary, "Mississippi Cold Case." For Thomas Moore it wasn't enough to help bring his brother's killer to justice. Tonight he stirs up emotion as he tracks down the man who helped plan the murder.
THOMAS MOORE (BROTHER OF KLU KLUX KLAN VICTIM):
God damn it, black and white do not attend... Church together.
WENDY MESLEY (HOST):
That's next on "The National." -
We have a special presentation tonight. A powerful story of hatred and redemption. It began in 1964, when two young black men were found murdered in Mississippi. Their case was soon overshadowed by the high profile disappearance of three civil rights workers. And there was no justice for Henry Dee and Charles Moore, not until CBC documentary filmmaker David Ridgen hit the road with Moore's brother, Thomas. The resulting film, in 2007, "Mississippi Cold Case," led to a guilty verdict for Charles Moore's killer. Tonight, Ridgen follows Thomas Moore once again on his quest to confront the last remaining Klansman who was complicit in those murders, Charles Edwards. Here is "Reconciliation in Mississippi."
(Thomas Moore singing a blues song in the car going south)
DAVID RIDGEN (REPORTER):
Between 2004 and 2007 I made a film with a man named Thomas Moore that led to a U.S. federal trial convicting Mississippi Klansman James Ford Seale in the murder of Thomas's brother Charles and his friend Henry Dee. Now four years after that conviction, we have come back to Mississippi, partially to update on what has been happening here since, but also as a kind of final shoe drop on a case that has consumed and altered us both. Since 2005, this plaque at the site where Dee and Moore were picked up hitchhiking by Klansmen, some 47 years ago, has been destroyed several times by both weather and unknown persons. Our first objective was to install...