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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Prosecutors in a revived civil rights-era case dropped their attempt to get a television interview with a now-dead Klansman admitted as evidence after his widow testified Tuesday that he had mental problems.
FBI informant Earnest Gilbert never testified about the 1964 killings of two black teenagers when he was alive but was interviewed by ABC's "20/20" before he died in 2004. Prosecutors had hoped to use the interview as evidence in the upcoming trial of reputed Klansman James Ford Seale.
In the tapes of the interview played Tuesday during a pretrial hearing, Gilbert said Seale and the other men involved in the slayings of Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee were his "friends."
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