On the morning after the blast, the New York Times ran a front-page story, “Bombing Kills Negro Leader,” that stated plainly what many Floridians—and perhaps Harriette Moore—thought when it linked Harry Moore’s murder to Willis McCall in its lead paragraph: MIMS, FLA., Dec. 26—A Negro crusader who led a campaign to prosecute a white Sheriff for shooting two handcuffed Negroes was killed last night and his wife was seriously injured by a bomb blast beneath their bedroom. Harry T. Moore, 46 years old, . . . was the third Negro to die in the state by violence believed resulting from the 1949
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