In the summer of 1965, several Ku Klux Klan members riding in a
pickup truck shot two Black deputies on patrol in Washington
Parish, Louisiana. Deputy Oneal Moore, the driver of the patrol car
and father of four daughters, died instantly. His partner, Creed
Rogers, survived and radioed in a description of the vehicle. Less
than an hour later, police in Mississippi spotted the truck and
arrested its driver, a decorated World War II veteran named Ernest
Ray McElveen. They returned McElveen to Washington Parish, where he
spent eleven days in jail before authorities released him.
Afterward, the FBI sent its top inspector to Bogalusa, Louisiana,
to participate in the murder inquiry—the only civil rights–era
FBI investigation into the killing of a Black law enforcement
officer by the KKK. Despite that assistance, lack of evidence and
witnesses unwilling to come forward forced Louisiana prosecutors
eventually to drop all charges against McElveen. The FBI continued
its investigation but could not gather enough evidence to file
charges, leaving the murder of Oneal Moore unsolved. Klan of
Devils: The Murder of a Black Louisiana Deputy Sheriff is Stanley
Nelson's investigation of this case, which the FBI probed from 1965
to 2016. Nelson describes the Klan's growth, and the emergence of
Black activism in Bogalusa and Washington Parish, against the
backdrop of political and social change in the 1950s and early
1960s. With the assistance of two retired FBI agents who worked the
case, Nelson also explores the lives of the primary suspects, all
of whom are now dead, and points to the Klansmen most likely
responsible for the senseless and horrific attack.
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