2022, ISBN: 2940148170266

Jim Ingram is to the FBI what Elliot Ness was to the Treasury Department—a larger-than-life symbol of American justice, a Klan-busting crime fighter who was involved with some of t… More...

Jim Ingram is to the FBI what Elliot Ness was to the Treasury Department—a larger-than-life symbol of American justice, a Klan-busting crime fighter who was involved with some of the highest profile FBI cases of the 1960s and 1970s, disparate cases characterized by violent resistance to social change. In Ness’s case, the resistance was to Prohibition. In Ingram’s case, the resistance was to the enforcement of civil rights and terrorism laws.Jim Ingram was the primary source in journalist Jack Nelson’s 1993 bestselling book, Terror in the Night: The Klan’s Campaign Against the Jews, which focused on the FBI’s infiltration of the Klan in an effort to protect Mississippi Jews. In his memoir Ingram provides new information about those cases.Interestingly, after nearly 30 years with the FBI, Ingram was brought out of retirement in the 2000s as a cold-case investigator of Mississippi civil rights-era murders, casting him into his fifth decade of crime fighting. Among the historic cases worked by Ingram:• The assassination of President John F. Kennedy (Ingram’s first major case).• The “Mississippi Burning” civil rights murders.• The assassination of Martin Luther King.• The murder of Federal Judge John H. Woods, known by friends and detractors as “Hanging John.” The convicted hit man was actor Woody Harrelson’s father, Charles Harrelson.• The bombing of Beth Israel Temple (Jackson, Mississippi).• The FBI counterintelligence operation known as COINTELPRO. • The FALN bombings by Puerto Rican separatists. In this memoir, Jim Ingram will provide insider information on the above high-profile cases and others, along with a personal perspective on his nearly 30-year career of law enforcement. During that career, he headed up the FBI offices in New York and Chicago, and was in charge of the violent crimes civil rights desk in Mississippi in the 1960s, and served in the 1970s as deputy assistant FBI director in Washington, DC. After his retirement from the FBI, Ingram served as Public Safety Commissioner for the State of Mississippi, which put him in charge of the Highway Patrol, an agency that had been heavily infiltrated by the KKK while he was head of the civil rights desk in Mississippi. Appointed by Governor Kirk Fordice, a conservative Republican with a penchant for abrasiveness, Ingram became good friends with the man despite their political differences.Jim Ingram passed away in August 2009 of cancer, but worked on this memoir with his co-author, right up until his death. . The book contains new, formerly classified information about a variety of cases. Digital Content>E-books>Social Sciences>Sociology>Criminology, Sartoris Literary Group, Inc. Digital >16<