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Lost letter frees man, prompts civil rights march

The surprise court introduction of a letter Friday morning, July 14, 1967, resulted later that day in the acquittal of J. W. Copling, Jr., a man standing trial for the murder of Clarence Trigg one year earlier, July 30, 1966, on a Saturday evening in Bogalusa. The defendant had attorney Ossie Brown to thank for his freedom.

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