US EditionInvestigating Cold Cases: How Two Journalists Dug Into Decades-Old Civil Rights Era Killings
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Investigating Cold Cases: How Two Journalists Dug Into Decades-Old Civil Rights Era Killings
In July 1965, police officer Edward Nugent shot and killed John Wesley Wilder, a Black man outside a cafe in Ruston, Louisiana. The officer — who fired five times and claimed his actions were in self-defense — wasn’t charged, and authorities ultimately ruled the case a “justifiable homicide.” But decades later, journalist Ben Greenberg discovered evidence that suggested that the shooting was unprovoked — and after he began reporting, the FBI reo…
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