Papers on the FBI investigation of the Lemuel A. Penn murder, 1964-1967.

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Papers on the FBI investigation of the Lemuel A. Penn murder, 1964-1967.

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Released under the Freedom of Information Act these papers consist of photocopies of the FBI's investigation into the racially motivated murder of Lemuel A. Penn. Penn was an assistant superintendent of education in the District of Columbia's public schools and a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve. He was killed on July 11, 1964, near Athens, Georgia, as he was driving from Ft. Benning, Georgia, to Washington, D.C. Also included in these papers are the newspaper clippings collected by the FBI reporting on the subsequent federal court convictions of the assailants on the charge of violating Penn's civil rights.

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