WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)

Description

Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of FBI detention of suspects in the Lemuel Penn murder. The clips are silent. The first three shots are of the door of the "Office County Police". The writing is somewhat obscured in the first shot, but the other two clearing show the name, however, the county is unidentified. However, according to newspaper reports from the period, the FBI had taken over the second floor of the federal building in Athens as the base for their investigations. Thus, this is probably an entrance to the Clarke County Police Department. The next shot looks up to a lighted window high in a building, which is probably the federal building in Athens. The final shot is of an unmarked sedan with four men, two in front and two in back. The two men in back are in dark suits. This car is followed by another unmarked sedan with two more men in the front. These are probably FBI agents. Among the agents in Athens at that time were: Edward Kassinger, the case coordinator; Robert Kane, the resident agent in Athens; Jack B. Simpson and William J. Watry, special agents stationed in Atlanta; Clarence Brom and Arthur S. Hamilton, agents from the New Jersey office; Joseph J. Casper, assistant director of the FBI, sent to be in charge of the case; and special agent James Henderson. On the evening of August 1st, agents Brom and Simpson picked up James S. Lackey from his place of employment, a garage...

Record Contributed By

Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

Record Harvested From

Digital Library of Georgia