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SUBJECT: OPTIONAL FORM HO. 10 . : sote-108 . WL - AY 1062 EDITION . ee Oba GIN, BRO. HD. 27 : Mr. Rose CR : at : status thereof, : Ac TION ‘TAKEN: . gon conducted and to sutel completed by. oon, 2-2 64, Tolson ——____— UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT - Bris ; ° . : . : Cosper —.--—— Memora dum — Skt Gale Sullivan ————- - Tavel Date: 2-1-64 © Rates MURDER OF LEWIS ALLEN Dor AMITE COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI a ~ At 3 42 | p.m. this date St. John Barrett, Civil Ri nts: Section of the Department telephoned Weekend Supervisor and advised that he learned that Lewis Allen, who was very active in the voter registration activities in Mississippi, was |< murdered and requested that the FBI conduct certain investigation . and furnish the results to him on 2-2- 64. _ “Barrett ‘stated that he received a call from CORE Office, Jackson, Mississippi, today informing that the body of Lewis Allen was found beneath Allen's truck parked at his, | Allen's, residence with two bullet wounds in his head. He stated that funeral services are to be held for Allen on 2-2-64 at the Cooks - Funeral Home, Gloster, Mississippi. Barrett requested that the following investigation be: conducted: “1, ‘Determine the extent and nature of Allen's voter” registration activities in the recent past. -: 2. Ssissippi, to attend Allen's funeral. . i 3. | What local Investigation { is s being « conducted and the noe 4. Was there an wy me and the ne results thereof. SAC Harry G. Maynor, New Orleabs _was telephonically a advised of the above request and was instructed to have seein’ |