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He said that was the first he had heard of it. She also, like Diane Alexander, said that Alexander had been an FBI informant. Morris Dees of the Southern Pov- erty Law Center in Montgomery is representing Edwards’ survivors and has asked the FBI to open its files on Alexander. “The family wants to know how much the FBI knew about him (Al- exander) and if he was working for them when this happened,” Dees said. Dees said Alexander also was in- dicted, but never tried, for a number of bombings in Montgomery during the civil rights movement. He said it raises questions whether the FBI Was “running interference” fer him. Shows, who was a Montgomery detective in 1957, said he stayed in close contact with FBI agents dur- ing the turbulent '50s and ‘60s. “I don't believe they would have put anyone up to do something vio- lent,” he said. “Most of the FBI agents who were here in those days have retired or have died.” Spencer Robb, the agent in charge of the Montgomery office, has re- tired and moved out of the state. In her statement to Shows in 1976, Edna Alexander said her husband and three others came ta the house that night in 1957 and bragged about the event. “They came back, they were laughing and were saying something ahaut a Nogrn man making 9 nase at @OGUL a IE BTO IMG Manning a pass ay a white woman, and I heard one of them say he will never make a pass at another white women... I asked them, ‘Did ya’all harm that man” and they said, ‘No, he just jumped off the river bridge’ ” One man named in the statement, Raymond Britt, agreed to testify for the state when Baxley obtained in- dictments against them. Britt gave a chilling account of the night Ed- wards was forced to jump to his death. In his statement, Britt said Alex- ander was driving and they were looking for a black man who drove a Winn-Dixie truck and had made a Suggestive statement to a white woman. Britt said they saw a truck parked along Lower Wetumpka Road and a