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Justice has finally caught up with Mississippi KKK killer

Sat, August 25, 2007

CBC's 2005 review of the unsolved 1964 deaths of two black teens 
helped to reopen the case.

By LORRAYNE ANTHONY, CP



Thomas Moore found the justice he sought for 40 years yesterday when a 
reputed Ku Klux Klansman was given three life terms for the 1964 
murder of two black teens, including Moore's brother.

James Ford Seale, 72, was convicted in June on federal charges of 
kidnapping and conspiracy in the deaths of Charles Eddie Moore and 
Henry Hezekiah Dee, two 19-year-old black teens who disappeared from 
southwest Mississippi on May 2, 1964.

Thomas Moore was elated yesterday after a judge in Jackson, Miss., 
handed down sentence.

"I'm very joyful that finally after 43 years I was able see justice 
done to James Seale," Moore said Jackson. "You know he got three life 
sentences for what he did to Henry Dee and Charles Moore.

"Finally, they got justice."

With the very next breath, Moore paid tribute to a Canadian filmmaker 
he credits with making this day possible.

Moore had been trying to get to the bottom of what happened to his 
brother for years.

But it wasn't until David Ridgen, a documentary filmmaker with the 
CBC, came asking questions that Moore had the courage to go to 
Mississippi. He had been out of the state for years.

They spent the better part of two years piecing together the bits of 
evidence that had been long forgotten.

"If David Ridgen and I had not (done) what we did for 21 months, we 
would not have been where we are today," he said, adding it was the 
evidence they gathered that made it possible to prosecute Seale.

More than two months after the two young men disappeared in 1964, 
their bodies were found in a backwater of the Mississippi River.

Rigden's initiative led the duo to a brief confrontation with Seale, a 
former sheriff's deputy who had been reported as dead in several 
newspapers.

"I'm not a braggart and I'm not the kind of person who talks about 
themselves. I'm a behind-the-camera person, but I worked on this every 
single day for the last three years," Rigden said. "I would say 75 to 
80 per cent of the evidence that was presented in court was evidence 
that was brought up through the production of the film."


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