By no means was he underestimating the threat to Marshall in Florida. Swinney, along with nearly two dozen other agents committed to the Moore case “to ensure that the FBI was doing a thorough investigation,” had recently been looking into the shootings of Samuel Shepherd and Walter Irvin. In fact, he had just spent three days interviewing Willis McCall and local Klansmen in connection with Groveland and its aftermath, although he had not yet concluded, as he would eventually, that in regard to Harry Moore and his wife, “Klan members and some law enforcement officers were behind these
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