Somehow, Moses reported, Herbert Lee was being singled out for resentment as a detective or “spy” for the Negroes. Doar took these reports seriously enough to ask Moses and Steptoe to take him out to Lee’s farm for a talk. Lee was not there, however, and Doar had to leave for Washington that night. When he walked into his office at the Justice Department the next day, Doar found a phone message that Herbert Lee had been murdered.
