Government seeks to use statements of dead Klansman/informant

The Commercial Dispatch, 4/18/7

In a pretrial motion, U.S. Attorney Dunn Lampton says Ernest Gilbert – who died in the past few years – ?was a leader in the Klan? but did not take part in the May 2, 1964, kidnapping and killing of Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore.

Instead, Gilbert was told details about the crime by other Klan members and he passed that information on to the FBI, leading to the discovery of Moore’s and Dee’s bodies, according to the prosecutors’ motion that was filed this past Friday.