Trial to Begin in 1964 Civil-Rights Deaths

[NVMojo]

...and this week we get the Senate working on an apology for over 4,000 lynchings in America ...

PHILADELPHIA, Miss. (AP) -- Potential jurors arrived under heavy security Monday for the trial of a reputed Ku Klux Klansman accused in the notorious killings of three civil rights workers four decades ago.

Members of the jury pool, expected to total about 400, were ushered off buses and entered a side door of the Neshoba County courthouse in the heart of this town of about 7,300.

Defendant Edgar Ray Killen, who has been free on bail, looked straight ahead and said nothing as he was brought into the two-story, red brick courthouse in a wheelchair.

A federal trial was held in the 1960s, but Killen, an 80-year-old part-time preacher, is the only person ever indicted on state murder charges in the case.

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[icymist]

1. Sad though, but Michael Jackson trial gets more attention. n/t

[struggle4progress]

2. Jury Selection Begins in Killen Trial

Philadelphia, Miss.
Wade Phillips


Edgar Ray Killen entered the courthouse to a throng of reporters around him and a member of the Ku Klux Klan helping him. J.J. Harper identified himself as a member of the KKK and said he was there at Killen's request. <snip>

http://www.wtok.com/news/headlines/1629756.html