◆ SpookStack

AP PHOTO Rose adorms Civil Rights Memorial space dedicated to Willie Edwards. said her husband confessed to leading six other men inthe nightrider murder Henry Alexander, 61, died in December 1992, several weeks after allegedly making the statement to his wife, Diane Alexander. She also said her husband was an FBI infor- mant, Mayer said it is not clear whether Alexander narned other people in the abduction. “There would be legal questions as to the admis- sibility in court,” he said, “and we would likely have to have a judicial inquiry on the issue. This is a little different from a person telling police some- thing from the deathbed.” Morris Dees, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center and representing Edwards’ survivors, has asked the FBI to furnish all documents per- taining to Alexander's role in the civil rights mov- ment, that began in Montgomery when blacks boy- cotted segregated buses in late 1955. The Supreme Court in December 1956 upheld a lower court ruling handed down by federal judges Frank M. Johnson Jr. and Richard Rives, declar- ing segregation unconstitutional. Removing racial barriers on the buses set off a wave of bombings and sniping incidents, including the bombing of the home of beycott leader the Rey. Martin Luther King Jr. Dees said he has been told Alexander may have been involved in bombing King’s home. Edwards, who took no part in the protest, appar- ently was picked at randorn by Klan members an- gry about the desegregation orders. In 1976, a man named Raymond Britt told inves- tigators that he and several other men took part in the incident, and Attorney General Bill Baxley ob- tained indictments against them. Alexander was one of four men indicted on a murder charge. But Montgomery Circuit Judge Frank Embry dismissed the indictments because they did not specify a cause of death. Baxley did not seek new indictments, He later said the FBI told him Alexander had been an informant in the 1950s, and asked that he be given “consideration.” Another man who had been indicted in 1976, William Kyle “Sonny” Livingston, a Montgomery bail bondsman now age 55, said Wednesday he was told in 1969 that Alexander was an FBI informant. “Tt didn't mean anything to me,” he said. “I was never in the Klan. But I’ve been persecuted over this (Edwards) case for years. I was only 18 when that happened, and I wasn't there. I hung around with some people who were in the Klan, but I wasn't a Member.” Britt later recanted and said Livingston was not present when Edwards was forced to jump from the bridge.