
Despite Popular Belief, Mobster Didn’t Help Solve 1964 Killings of 3 Civil Rights Workers
By Jerry Mitchell The Clarion-Ledger No matter where I speak about the Ku Klux Klan’s 1964 killings of three civil rights workers, I inevitably get asked this question: Did the Mafia really help the FBI solve the case? The people who ask that question have usually heard some version of this story: Desperate to solve…