Jim Ingram | FBI agent, 77
Retired FBI agent Jim Ingram, 77, who investigated Ku Klux Klan killings and violent acts across Mississippi in the 1960s, died Sunday at a Mississippi hospice of pancreatic cancer.
Retired FBI agent Jim Ingram, 77, who investigated Ku Klux Klan killings and violent acts across Mississippi in the 1960s, died Sunday at a Mississippi hospice of pancreatic cancer.
Mr. Ingram worked on many high-profile cases, including the June 21, 1964, Mississippi Burning slayings of civil rights workers James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman.
He also assisted in the investigation of the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the 1968 assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the 1978 mass suicide in Guyana of more than 900 followers of cult leader Jim Jones.
In his more than 30 years with the FBI, Mr. Ingram headed the Chicago and New York FBI offices before serving as deputy assistant director in Washington. - AP
