"Nelson sensed immediately that there was an untold story in how the FBI had cracked the case so speedily," Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff wrote in their book The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation" (2006). "Within days, he supplied readers of the Los Angeles Times with the answer: one of the four men in the Klan car when the shots were fired was an undercover FBI informant. It was a remarkable exclusive." Another exclusive came in February 1968, when three black students were fatally shot and 27 others wounded by state troopers at South Carolina State College, a black college in Orangeburg. Full Article at Edinburgh Daily News