'KKK man' held for 1964 murders - Democratic Underground

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Fri Jan-07-05 11:36 AM
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'KKK man' held for 1964 murders

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A 79-year-old Mississippi man has been arrested for the notorious murders of three civil rights workers in 1964.

Edgar Ray Killen, a segregationist preacher linked to the Ku Klux Klan, faced trial in 1967 but was freed after the jury failed to reach a verdict.

The three men were killed as they campaigned to register black voters.

The murders sparked an outpouring of national support for the civil rights movement, and were dramatised in the 1988 film Mississippi Burning.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4154039.stm

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1. duplicate topic

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1128143

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