Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist has decided against using the daughter of a slain civil-rights leader in a campaign ad. The Republican gubernatorial candidate's plan to use footage of
Evangeline Moore had drawn criticism. Her parents, Harry and Harriette Moore, were killed in a 1951 bombing, and Crist's office said in August the couple likely had been killed by four now-dead Ku
Klux Klan members.
Crist says he won't use the tape in his campaign against Democrat Jim Davis. "I have so much respect for her, and even though she has granted us permission to use the
spot, I don't want to cause her any angst," he said. "I don't want people to try to use it as a political weapon." But historian Ben Green, who has written a book about the bombing, has disputed that
Crist's office solved the murders, and said the investigation turned up nothing new.
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