On his blog, Jackson Clarion-Ledger reporter Jerry Mitchell, who has been instrumental in bringing attention to unsolved murders of the civil rights era, notes that CBS' 60 Minutes is doing a piece on the unsolved 1964 murder of Louis Allen:
Hank Allen, the son of Louis Allen, believes retired sheriff Daniel Jones had something to do with his father’s 1964 ambush killing.
60 Minutes is airing a story on the cold case at 6 p.m. CDT Sunday, April 10, on CBS.
FBI records from 1964 name Jones as a suspected member of the Ku Klux Klan — an allegation Jones later admitted to the FBI.
In an interview with Steve Kroft of 60 Minutes, Jones was asked if he could say he had nothing to do with the murder.
“No sir, I wasn’t involved in it,” he responded.
Told he could clear the whole thing up by taking a lie detector test, Jones replied to Kroft, “Well, then it ain’t getting cleared up.”
A preview of the program can be found at this link.
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