Bennie Jack Hays speaking to the press at the county courthouse in Mobile, Alabama, after his son, Henry Hays, was sentenced to death for the murder of Michael Donald.
His wife, Opal, is standing on the right. Donald was murdered by Ku Klux Klan members on March 20, 1981, and his body was hanged from a tree on Herndon Avenue in Mobile.
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/amg/id/127473 |