UPDATE #3: Shirley Sherrod’s father was not shot by a klansman.
Grace Miller, Hosie Miller’s wife and Sherrod’s mother, said Friday that she didn’t know if the FBI had opened an investigation into her husband’s killing.
“I hadn’t heard that but, I think it would be a good thing if they did,” Miller said. “But, then again, it won’t bring him back and that was a long time ago.”
Miller, who said that she and Hall were distantly related, never made any attempts to contact the family before his death in 1976.
According to the documents obtained Friday, Grace Miller and her brother-in-law, Walter Miller, tried at least three times to get Hall tried.
On the night of the shooting, Grace Miller swore out a warrant against Hall for assault with intent of murder. Despite the fact that Hosie Miller had since died, that charge went before a grand jury on Oct. 27, 1965 and was dismissed.
On March 24, 1965, the day before Hosie Miller succumbed to his wounds, Walter Miller swore out a murder warrant before James Holt, a justice of the peace, for Hall. That warrant would be presented as an undated special presentment before the grand jury and was also dismissed.
Finally, on Jan. 17, 1966, Walter Miller again tried to bring murder charges against Hall but was unsuccessful.
Eight days later, on Jan. 25, 1966, Grace Miller, with the assistance of famed civil rights attorney C.B. King, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Hall alleging that Hall shot Miller in the chest while in Miller’s cow pasture off Route 2 in Newton on March 15, 1965. According to court documents Miller was seeking $330,00 to recover present and future lost wages, medical and funeral costs.
So Hall shot Miller over a lawsuit and Hall was a relative of Sherrod’s mother. Doesn’t sound like a Klan case to me.
UPDATE # 2: The coverup of her views is not working. People who criticized Breitbart and defended her are changing their minds and apologizing to Breitbart.
UPDATE: John Derbyshire has a few things to add.
So: while you’re forming opinions on whether Andrew Breitbart did due diligence, whether the NAACP shot themselves in the foot, whether the White House ordered Ms. Sherrod’s firing, whether Bill O’Reilly committed journalistic malfeasance, and the other issues in the case, please don’t lose sight of this key fact: Positions at all levels in the federal bureaucracy — positions dispensing power, patronage, and huge sums of public money — are being filled by radical revolutionary leftists like Shirley Sherrod.
Yesterday, one would have expected, given the furor over Andrew Breitbart posting her speech to an NAACP convention, that Ms Sherrod would be on at least one of the Sunday talk shows. The current media theme is that she is a race hero who had explained how she turned from a racist past to a new understanding that we are all just people, black and white. One might almost say a deification process was underway.
Then she disappeared from public. Why ? If she is going to sue anybody, make her case !
Well, there might just be a problem. Her husband seems to have some odd views.
Charles Sherrod: “We must stop the white man and his Uncle Toms from stealing our elections.”
Oh oh.
Where does Obama find these people ? He seems to be surrounded by them. Is Jeremiah Wright a sort of executive headhunter for the administration ?