On June 10, 1966, three Klansmen approached Ben Chester White at his home near Natchez, Mississippi, and asked for him help in finding a lost dog. White, a 67-year old sharecropper, was then driven to this site in the Homochitto National Forest, where he was shot repeatedly, then dumped over this bridge into the creekbed below. Three men, Ernest Avants, Claude Fuller, and James Lloyd Jones, had allegedly killed White in an attempt to lure Martin Luther King, Jr. to Natchez, Mississippi. Avants, who was tried in 1967 but acquitted, was re-tried and convicted after the U.S. government reopened the case more than 35 years later when it determined that the crime had been committed on federal property.