Suspect in 1964 'Mississippi Burning' Ku Klux Klan murders dies at 82
Source: Daily Mail
Suspect in 1964 'Mississippi Burning' Ku Klux Klan murders dies at 82
PUBLISHED:21:04 EST, 17 March 2013| UPDATED: 21:04 EST, 17 March 2013
Olen Burrage, who was acquitted in the case of three civil rights workers killed by Ku Klux Klansmen in Mississippi in the 1960s, has died. He was 82.
Burrage died Friday at a hospital, the McClain-Hays Funeral Home Chapel said. The funeral home did not release a cause of death.
Burrage owned land in Neshoba County in central Mississippi where the three civil rights workers were buried under an earthen dam after KKK members killed them in 1964. He said he knew nothing about the killings
The FBI called its investigation 'Mississippi Burning' - which was later used as the title for a 1988 film loosely based on the case.
Among the others charged with conspiracy in 1967, seven were convicted. None served more than six years in prison. The jury deadlocked on charges against a local minister, Edgar Ray 'Preacher' Killen.
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. . . these rednecks thought no more of killing African Americans as they would animals. Almost like sport to them.
When they were convicted, their juries were composed of either white male enablers or fellow Klansmen, so the lynchings and murders continued until federal intervention had to happen. You have to ponder how many got away with murder as opposed to how many didn't.
Ever since reading about what they did to Emmett Till, I feel the world's a better place with the death of every one of these pigshit bigots.
