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Old 01-07-2005, 08:36 PM
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Mississippi Burning

Anyone who saw the film Mississippi Burning should find this rather interesting. Talk about a long time coming....

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79-year-old preacher charged in three 1964 Klan slayings

PHILADELPHIA, Miss. (AP) — A reputed Ku Klux Klansman was arrested late Thursday on murder charges in the 1964 slayings of three voter-registration volunteers — a case that is one of the last pieces of unfinished business from the civil rights era.

Sheriff Larry Myers told The Associated Press that Edgar Ray Killen was arrested at his home without incident, and added that there would be more arrests.

Killen’s arrest followed a grand jury meeting Thursday that apparently included testimony from individuals believed to have knowledge about the killings, dramatized in the 1988 movie ‘‘Mississippi Burning.’’

Myers said Killen, a 79-year-old preacher, was being held on three counts of murder. ‘‘We went ahead and got him because he was high profile and we knew where he was,’’ the sheriff said.

Calls to Killen’s home late Thursday were answered by a recording.

The grand jury considered whether sufficient evidence existed after 40 years to bring charges in the crimes. Killen was identified in testimony in earlier federal court proceedings as having a role in the killings.

Mississippi has had some success reopening old civil rights murder cases, including a 1994 conviction of Byron de la Beckwith for the 1963 assassination of NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers.

But until recently there has been little progress in building murder cases against those involved in the Ku Klux Klan slayings of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner.

Seven Klansmen were convicted of federal conspiracy charges in the killings and sentenced to prison terms ranging from three years to 10 years. None served more than six years. But the state never brought murder charges.

Goodman’s mother, Carolyn Goodman, said she ‘‘knew that in the end the right thing was going to happen.’’

‘‘As I have said many times before, I’m not looking for revenge. I’m looking for justice,’’ Goodman, 89, said from her home in New York.

Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner were among hundreds of Freedom Summer volunteers, mostly white college students, who came to Mississippi in 1964 to educate blacks and help them to vote. The three were beaten and shot to death. Their bodies were found later in an earthen dam.

Chaney, a 21-year-old black man, was from Meridian, Miss. Goodman, 20, and Schwerner, 24, were from New York.


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Old 01-07-2005, 08:40 PM
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Anyone who saw the film Mississippi Burning should find this rather interesting. Talk about a long time coming....
Sam Cooke: " It's been a long time comin', but I know, a change gonna come"

That was a very good movie, telling a sad but tragic tale.

After all these years, I'm glad some justice, albeit late will be served.

In this day and age of DNA testing, I think we'll be seeing more and more of these type of situations.

Good for them.
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Old 01-07-2005, 08:44 PM
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'bout time.

Remindsme of m'boy from Jackson, Mike Moore. A tenacious, hard-working and honest AG.
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Old 01-07-2005, 08:47 PM
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good. i hope he fries....
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Old 01-07-2005, 08:48 PM
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The late 1950s and early 1960s were a high point of the American culture. However, this is a reminder that everything was great. There were some very dark places in those years, too.
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Old 01-07-2005, 09:26 PM
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The late 1950s and early 1960s were a high point of the American culture. However, this is a reminder that everything was great. There were some very dark places in those years, too.
Did you mean a low point in regards to racism and a high point now that the respomsible parties are being tried and convicted?
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Old 01-07-2005, 09:31 PM
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Yes, I found that statement rather confusing as well. Scratches head...
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Old 01-07-2005, 09:56 PM
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maybe she ment "wasn't"... dunno
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Old 01-07-2005, 11:56 PM
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Two of those murdered boys were college kids from my home state of New Hampshire - murdered for the crime of registering black people to vote. It was one of the most shocking things that ever happened in New Hampshire, a very small state where everyone knows everyone else, especially in the '60s when it was a very rural state. The way those pigs threw their bodies in a swamp like garbage, the shock that the murders were mostly police officers, the all white juries of pigs who let those other pigs off, all of it was burned into every mind in New Hampshire. Given the chance, we would have invaded them again and burnt their plantations to the ground a second time. The 60s a high point of culture? Not on your life.
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Old 01-08-2005, 12:04 AM
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And you know if two of those kids weren't white (Jews in this case, at least one of which came from a prominent family as I recall), it would've gone virtually unnoticed along with untold numbers of similar incidents. Here is a link that describes the role this scumbag played in the incident: Edgar Ray Killen.
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Old 01-08-2005, 12:14 AM
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They were New York kids who went to college in New Hampshire at Keene State College, a small teacher's college out in the woods. Their parents owned summer camps in NH, and they were typical idealistic academic types, very naive about the country they lived in. The story was in the paper there for 10 years. People were so outraged it was unbelievable.
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Old 01-08-2005, 01:45 AM
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too bad we who remain are the only one's who get to enjoy the justice which was paid for by the blood and terror of the murdered. i cannot imagine the anguish felt by the parents of the boys who were murdered nor the terror which must have racked the victims in the last and painful moments of thier short lives.

they were doing the right thing by promoting democracy for all, even in the face of evil intent and even if the beneficiaries of thier sacrifice chose not to practice this freedom. they bravely gave thier lives for the freedom of thier brethren. in that, there is nobility. in that, there is honor.

those who would dismiss the value of thier sacrifice by criticizing thier mission, heap dishonor on themselves and as time passes will reap razor sharp justice.
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Old 01-08-2005, 01:57 AM
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As a young boy, my family and I lived in Philadelphia, MS. We moved there about 4-5 years after this incident happened. We were Yankees, strangers in a strange land.

Philadelphia, MS is the town in which this tragic event happened. It was and is a very small town of just thousands of people. The sheriff (Lawrence Rainey) was still around town (he was acquitted by trial) and his deputy (Cecil Price) was still in the federal penitentiary when we lived there -- Price's wife and family lived just down the street from us and my older sister played with his kid. The bodies of the slain civil rights workers were found in an earthen dam (containing the log pond) on the land of Weyerhaeuser Co., the company which my dad worked for during his entire career. My dad was the manager of the sawmill. My parents always thought many of the millworkers to be Klansmen. Back then you didn't ask questions. As a Yankee, you just treaded lightly.

In 1973 we were transferred back to the Northwest. I lost my deep south accent within a year. As a first grader, I still remember the other kids teasing me about it. My parents were very glad to be out of there.

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Lawrence Rainey (left) and Cecil Price (right)


Price and Rainey at their arraignment.

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Old 01-08-2005, 11:37 AM
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And you know if two of those kids weren't white (Jews in this case, at least one of which came from a prominent family as I recall), it would've gone virtually unnoticed along with untold numbers of similar incidents. Here is a link that describes the role this scumbag played in the incident: Edgar Ray Killen.
Jews have a color?
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Old 01-08-2005, 11:42 AM
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Jews have a color?
Yes, all Jews have a color, just like everyone else. These two happened to be white, as I said.

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