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Article: Roy K. Moore, 94; FBI Agent Probed Civil Rights Killings
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- The Washington Post
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- October 20, 2008
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Roy K. Moore, 94, an FBI agent who oversaw investigations into
some of the most notorious civil rights-era killings of the 1960s,
died of complications of pneumonia Oct. 12 at St. Catherine's
Village nursing home in Madison, Miss.
Mr. Moore, who had investigated the 1963 Birmingham church
bombing that killed four young girls, was hand-picked by FBI
Director J. Edgar Hoover to open the FBI's first office in
Mississippi in 1964. Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, James
Chaney and Andrew Goodman had disappeared, and Mr. Moore's job was
to lead the investigation.
About six weeks later, the bodies of the civil rights workers
were dug out of an earthen dam in Neshoba County. The 1988 movie, ...