JACKSON, Miss. - Prosecutors in the kidnapping and conspiracy trial of James Ford Seale promised jurors during opening arguments Monday that they will prove the reputed Klansman was among those who abducted, beat and drowned two black teenagers in 1964.
Defense attorneys set out to divorce Seale's reputation from the facts of the charges and said the government's case will be based largely on a member of the Ku Klux Klan who has changed his story in the 43 years since Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore were dumped in the Mississippi River to die.
Seale, now 71, has pleaded not guilty in the attacks on Dee and Moore, both 19. He also has denied being involved in …
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