LSU Manship School News Service

October 30, 2022

For two families, a Southern education meant everything. Then came tragedy.

Journalists from the LSU Manship School will present a 4-part Cold Case series on the shooting of two Southern students in 1972 by a sheriff's deputy at a time when students at Southern, SUNO and Grambling were protesting for better conditions at their schools. Nov. 16 will be the 50th anniversary of the shootings.
November 6, 2022

Without an eyewitness, the FBI turned to polygraphs, angle of shot diagrams

After two Southern University students were shot and killed but police officers, an intense federal investigation took place. This story goes deep inside that investigation and shows how the FBI narrowed to a final few deputies who might have fired the shot but couldn't prove who did it.