Clarence Triggs FBI File - Clarence Triggs FBI File

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Clarence Triggs FBI File
Item Number
hicks-fbi-017
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Clarence Triggs was a 24-year old bricklayer, construction worker and US Army veteran who was found murdered by the side of the road in Bogalusa on July 30, 1966. Despite the fact that Triggs had taken park in a Bogalusa Voters League voting rights march a month earlier, Police Chief Claxton Knight confidently declared there were “no racial implications in the death.” After the Bogalusa Voters League called for nightly marches every night until the case was solved, Bogalusa Police gave in to the pressure and arrested Klan members Homer “Kingfish” Seale and John Copling on August 1. Copling was tried and acquitted by the jury in less than an hour. Seale was never prosecuted. The case was reopened by the FBI as part of the civil rights era Cold Case Initiative, but remains unsolved. These redacted files were obtained through a FOIPA request from the Hicks Foundation and cover the period from 1966 to 1967.
Type of Resource
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FBI Files
Contact Information
For information or permission to use/publish, contact rbhicksfoundation@gmail.com.
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