in 1977, nine years after he killed civil rights leader martin luther king jr., james earl ray went overthe wall. during our shoot at brushy mountain, we met an inmate who was not only there, but tried to talk ray out of it. >> i told him, i said, james, you've got no pickup, no car, i said as soon as your foot touches down they know it's you, there will be a million cops in the valley and no one's going to get away. it's just a futile effort and i don't believe in wasting energy. so i sat and watched it happen. >> james slagle, brushy mountain's longest-serving inmate, told us how ray led inmates over a wall using a makeshift ladder crafted from chains. they made their escape while a tower officer took an afternoon nap. that's your corner where james and doug and spider monkey and the others went over. of course the fence was not here at that time, it was just a mountain serving as the fourth wall of the penitentiary. >> after ray climbed over, six more inmates followed before an officer and another tower finally saw them, and shot, striking the last escapee in the shoulder. >> the way

james earl ray was discovered hiding in heavy brush, not far from the prison. eventually new security measures were installed including razor wire and motion sensors. if a prisoner gets past these deterrents, they still must escape brushy mountain's blood hounds. >> this is canine daisy. she's about 2 years old, and she's the best tracking dog we have right now. if an inmate leaves here especially from behind the wall, because they're going to go straight up the mountain, one way or the other. that's where she would come into play. that's basically the only way we could find them in the mountains with one of these dogs because it's so thick and everything. there's nowhere to go. you can wander around for days in these mountains and be lost. they are silent trackers. a lot of people is misled by these dogs. they watch movies on tv. you see a guy with two or three dogs in each hand chasing an inmate. the dogs are all barking and stuff. these dogs don't bark. they keep their nose to the ground and they track. that's all they do. she will pick up on a human scent a

june 21st, 2005, a mississippi jury convicted edgar ray killen on three counts of manslaughter for the 1964 slaying of three civil rights workers. james earl cheney, andrew goodman and michael shwernor. he was convicted and sentenced to 60 years in prison so that renewed till investigation and that late killen prosecution were public statements that are you -- repudiated a time when dissenting black voices were silenced. perhaps the most profound and unlikely moment of racial sec sill yags in the summer of 2005 came on june 13th. on that date the united states senate apologized for failing to act to halt lynching in america. you see, between 1880 and 1960, nearly 5,000 americans were murdered through acts of lynching. most victims were african-american men and women living in the u.s. south, murdered by white mobs who acted with the full knowledge and tacit consent of their communities and local law enforcement. during these decades of domestic terrorism, more than 200 pieces of anti-lynching legislation were introduced to the united states congress. the most successful, the dire anti-lynching bill introduced by missouri republican l.c. di