Exactly 41 Years To The Day, Ex-Klansmen Convicted Of Past Killings
Edgar Ray Killen, the 80-year-old sawmill worker and sometimes preacher, was convicted of manslaughter of the 1964 Freedom Summer slayings of civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, whose mutilated bodies were found 44 days after they were beaten and shot in an... Sign in to see full entry.