Friday, July 25, 2014

Anniversary: The murders at the Moore's Ford Bridge, 25 July 1946.

The 1946 Georgia lynching was a quadruple killing that took place in the northern part of the U.S. state of Georgia in the summer of 1946. Done on a bridge in Walton and Oconee counties between Monroe and Watkinsville, the case attracted national attention. While the FBI investigated in 1946, it was unable to prosecute. New publicity in the 1990s led to a new investigation, but the case has not been solved.

2 comments:

FedUp said...

I guess "lynching" doesn't mean what I thought it meant.

The words that come to mind when I read the following are "executions" and "firing squad":

"One of the women identified an assailant, and the mob took the women to a big oak tree and tied them beside their husbands. The mob fired three point-blank volleys. The coroner's estimate counted sixty shots fired at close range."

FedUp said...

Yep, according to wiki, lynching doesn't mean what I thought it meant. I thought a lynching was an illegal hanging.

"Lynching is an extra-legal trial and punishment by an informal group. It is most often used to characterize informal public executions by a mob, often by hanging, in order to punish an alleged transgressor, or to intimidate a minority group..."