Saturday, February 22, 2014

F.B.I. Papers Yield Clues in Vanishing of Civil Rights Activist - NYTimes.com

F.B.I. Papers Yield Clues in Vanishing of Civil Rights Activist - NYTimes.com: Cheryl Robinson says she has waited more than four decades to find out what happened to her husband, an Alabama civil rights activist who disappeared, and now she thinks she has at least the beginning of an answer.

F.B.I. documents, released to her lawyer after years of repeated efforts, show that the agency believes her husband, Ray Robinson, was fatally shot by Native American activists during the 71-day siege of Wounded Knee, S.D., in 1973, she says.

“All I wanted was for the people who know what happened to come clean and tell the truth, so we can get his bones and put them in a decent grave,” she said.

That may take a while longer. The federal documents offer no clue to where Mr. Robinson was buried, she said.