afraid. there was an empirical, historical basis for absolute terror. >> gosh, when the community would just come and sit in front of my mom's door. so i think they call this protecting the house and protecting her. because the klan was still around in mobile. >> i thought one of the best ways to really catch up on exactly what had happened that night. i had the chief investigator, bob eddy, and we got with the fbi, and we got tiger knowles. we started out at herndon avenue, and i said, "okay, we're gonna ride the route that you did, the best you remember, because i want to know what happened." >> tommy had to do that. he needed to know what tiger was gonna say and how he was gonna say it. they had u.s. marshals with them.