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JACKSON, Miss. (AP)—Federal and state authorities intensified their investigations todayinto the slaying of the three civil rights workers whose bodies were unearthed after an exhaustive 44-day search.Rumors that arrests were imminent were heard from oneend of the state to the other. But the FBI would neither confirmnor deny the reports.In Honolulu, Negro- comedian Dick Gregory said today he had relayed to the FBI three weeksfago a letter which told where to find the bodies.Gregory also said he had given the FBI a tape recordingcontaining names of thn. killers.In Washington, the White House reportedly was told that the three-page typewritten letter, as well as tape recordings Gregory said he received, were worthless. Sources close to the FBI described the letter writer as a patient in Washington who had gleaned his information from material already published.The letter reportedly made no mention of the dam where the bodies were dug up.The three bodies were found two days ago in an earthen watershed embankment in a remote area near Philadelphia, Miss.Andrew Goodman, 20, and Michael Schwemer, 24, both white New Yorkers, were positively Identified, the FBI said. Thethird body was tentatively identified as James Chaney, 22, theMeridian Negro' who had accompanied Goodman andSchwemer on a trip to Philadelphia from Meridian on June 21.The University df Mississippi Medical Center here — wherethe decomposed corpses were brought for autopsies — said allthree were shot to death. The bullets were recovered, it wasr-oorted.i/*At Philadelphia, Neshoba County Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price said Chaney had been shot three times and Schwemer and Goodman each once.Price said he was present inJackson Wednesday during a portion of the autopsies, and he understood all three had been shot from the front.The FBI has refused to dis-« mclose any reasons why they obtained a bulldozer and a dragline to dig into the recently built dam where the bodies were found.Roy K. Moore, chief of theJackson FBI office, would only say it was the result of careful, methodical planning. “Ill.a*«se reported^belsmy superiors in Washington do the talking,” Moore said.The Birmingham (Ala.) News, in a copyright story Wednesday, said a reward of $30,000 brought into the FBI the information which led to the finding of the bodies. The News also said the names of seven personslinked with the slaying had been given to the FBI.The FBI declined comment on either the news story or the report from Gregory about the letter.Gregory had offered a $25,000 reward for information leadingto the “finding of the bodies, the arrest and prosecution of thekillers, shortly after the triovanished.He did not name the source of the letter he said he turned over to the FBI.He exhibited what he said wasa copy of it at a press confer-(Continued On Page 2)!ttDriHK“Chim not sithelpingViet r to aggExpSeer terme in thesucce: strike: Viet P “Wlt; sure j of us the aiE#nUN (AP) day I would South
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Hattiesburg American
Hattiesburg, Mississippi, US
Thu, Aug 06, 1964
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