◆ SpookStack

FD-302 (Rey. 1-25-00) - _ FEDERAL BUREAU OF vest on “yN : Fy - -~ _ Date February 6, 1964 | 1 * Mrs. ELIZABETH ALLEN, Liberty, Mississippi, -advised that her late husband, LOUIS ALLEN, was not active in any manner in voter registration activities in Amite | County. She said he was not a registered voter and to her knowledge had never made any attempt to register to vote or had never attended any voter registration meetings, spoke of same or been involved in any civil rights movement. vs Mra. ALLEN Stated that on the evening of January 31, 1964, LOUIS ALLEN had left their residence to go to the residence of LLOYD KING, a white man, to. get a letter of recommendation for future employment. | Her husband left their residence shortly after 7:00 p.m. in his logging truck. Ske informed that her husband wanted this letter of recommendation to use in securing a job as a bulldozer operator in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. . ‘Mrs. ALLEN said that at 8:30 p.m. she heard three shots outside of her residence but that she did not go outside and investigate. She informed that she fixed | the time as 8:30 p.m. because a favorite television program had just come on the air. Mrs. ALLEN said that during the rest of the evening she did become concerned that her husband had not retuyned home be- cause he had indicated to her at the time he left that he would be returning home after he saw LLOYD KING. Mre. ALLEN renarked that at about 12:30 a.m. On February 1, 1964, her son HENRY CRAWFORD ALLEN and nephew JOHN WESLEY HORTON arrived at the residence | and told her that her husband had been shot and was dead. . co Mrs. ALLEN said that she had no information as to who hadkilied her husband or the reason for a his being killed and to her knowledge, he had not had any trouble with any person. Her husband had never told her — that he had been threatened by anyone. Sg Mrs. ALLEN said her husband and oldest gon, TOMMY LOUIS ALLEN, who does not live at their - residence, were planning on leaving Liberty; Mississippi * on. February 1, 1964 by train for Milwaukee, Wisconsin __and that she and her three-year-old daughter and other som, On 2/2/64 gy _Ledborty, Mississippi File #__NO 44-2100 by Dote dictated __ 2/5/64 This document containe neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. it ie the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. : 7 . toe 18 Se