Video: 'The Murder of Viola Liuzzo'

(Friday, October 22, 1965, 4:45 p.m. CDT; during the Civil rights movement) — An all-white jury today found Collie Leroy Wilkins Jr., a 22-year-old Ku Klux Klansman, not guilty of the murder of Viola Liuzzo, a 39-year-old white civil rights activist, housewife, and mother of five from Michigan who was shot dead March 25, 1965, by members of the Ku Klux Klan after participating in the successful Selma to Montgomery marches for voting rights.