Did the FBI fail in trying to resolve Civil Rights cold cases?

A retired FBI agent was at a Christian retreat in the late 1990s when a churchgoer confided he had witnessed a shooting of five Black men in 1960 that he believed had been racially motivated.

A case that ‘flips justice on its head’: Victim, not shooter, convicted in 1960 bloodbath

More than six decades ago a grand jury assembled to hear a grisly case. Four Black men had been shot to death and a fifth seriously wounded in a hail of gunfire on Ticheli Road near Monroe, Louisiana.

‘Mr. Fuller has shot his men’

MONROE, La. -- In the rural neighborhood around Ticheli Road, the sound of multiple gunshots erupted in the early morning quiet of July 13, 1960.