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>> tiger was the most volatile of the bunch. i think he mentored under bennie jack. you could talk him off the ledge, but he got up on the ledge in a hurry. >> they were klansmen. they were at that meeting on wednesday night. out of that motley crew, more than one, we strongly suspected, had participated in that murder, in that lynch. >> the klan, it was still [sighs] really guys? t-mobile has more 5g bars in more places than anyone. and now, when you switch, you can get iphone 13 on us, on every plan. you're not going to fit in that hole. don't look any further. unlock the full power, iphone ...

>> there's a difference between what you know and what you can prove. the investigation was evolving. bob eddy was on the case. he was interviewing people. he never took his foot off the gas. agent bodman, under the direction of thomas figures, was out there interviewing klansmen. we knew who committed this crime. we, however, could not prove it without a break. >> i never once thought that i was not being looked at seriously as a suspect. law enforcement started to zero in on us more and more. >> i was bound and determined that i wasn't gonna talk to nobody. they were building that narrative,...

Advise them to take the fifth amendment, and so they testified before the grand jury. >> when you're interviewed about a murder before a federal grand jury, you're gonna be uncomfortable. thomas figures was a grinder. in this case, simply tenacious. >> thomas figures was really wanting to have me locked up. they kept pushing that point, pushing that point. >> it makes the pot boil. >> i was saying the same thing over and over and over again. >> they often contradicted one another, and they'd back up and they would acknowledge things they hadn't acknowledged before. >> the klansmen lied. we kne...

Been framed by the communists. >> because a communist don't pick, only if you're in their way. right now, i'm in their way. i'm the one they're picking on. to get to me, they got my son. >> how could a klansman living on a rundown farm in a rural part of mobile country come up with the money to hire one of the best defense attorneys around? >> when these two klansmen were identified as killers, the old man, bennie jack hays, he hired a klansman to burn his house down so he could hire a prominent attorney to defend his son in the state trial. >> he did burn the house. he got an insurance settle...

>> thomas figures, he's in a position to push and nudge and make sure that this case does not rest from a criminal standpoint. >> i stuck to the klansmen. the more i asked questions, the more they talked. >> tiger knowles finally cracked. >> and he names henry hays. gotcha. got him, man, got him. >> so, when we think about michael donald, how long will it take for his family to get justice? how many years? how many decades? how much time? >> the body of a black man has been found hanging from a tree in mobile, alabama. >> lynching is a tool to control and oppress black people. >> racialized vi...