Reported as Dead, Suspect in '64 Killings Turns Up Alive

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<snip> "He ain't dead," the man said. "I'll show you where he lives." <snip>

"James Ford Seale!" Mr. Moore called from the road. "Why don't you come out and talk to me?"

The man scurried into a motor home - but not before Mr. Ridgen could get a good shot of him. James Ford Seale was alive.

Mr. Moore's brother, Charles Eddie Moore, and Henry Hezekiah Dee were killed in May 1964, a month before the more prominent killings of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Miss. According to federal reports, Mr. Moore and Mr. Dee, both 19, were hitchhiking outside nearby Meadville when a Klansman in a Volkswagen picked them up. <snip>

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/national/25civil.html

[philarq]

1. Never says where the original information that

Seale was dead came from --just implies that at some point it became common knowledge that he was "dead"---\

Any other good links for this?--do you have the other articles mentioned linked?

[struggle4progress]

2. You could start looking here:

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&newwindow=1&safe=off&c2coff=1&scoring=d&q=%22James+Ford+Seale+%22&btnG=Search

[Up2Late]

5. The Los Angeles Times makes mistakes like this all the time

Some of their mistakes seem like they are made just because they can't be bothered with fact checking.

Here's a link to Harry Shearer's LeShow radio program archives, he does a regular segment on his show:
<http://www.harryshearer.com/active/leShowArchive.php>

Here's the September 18, 2005 RealAudio link:
<http://play.rbn.com/foo.ram?url=livecon/kcrw/g2demand/ls/ls050918le_Show.rm&start=43:38&proto=rtsp>

[Up2Late]

3. Leave it to the Los Angeles Dog Trainer to get it wrong.

"...The Los Angeles Times published an article in June 2002 on the case, which said that Mr. Seale had died the previous year...."

I'm going to have to email this to Harry Shearer, maybe he'll add it to his L.A. Dog Trainer Correction on his Le Show program tomorrow.

[struggle4progress]

4. "... James Ford Seale, whose death was lamented by his son in 2002 ..

.. newspaper accounts ..."
http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_4106187,00.html