Killen Trial Forces Miss. to Relive Past

[ckramer]

The trial could be one of the last of its kind, where prosecutors primarily in the South have revived decades-old cases against people who killed in the name of preserving segregation, said University of Vermont political scientist Howard Ball, who attended most of the trial.

"You probably won't see too many trials of these people because they're dying off," said Ball, whose book about the 1964 slayings, "Murder in Mississippi," was published late last year. He's working on another book about the case, dramatized in the 1988 movie "Mississippi Burning."

"The hope is that this is the last of these trials of the generation of unregenerate Klansman, and the hope for the future is that we've gone past this era of violence and brutality and that the state is moving toward a more positive environment for all people," Ball said.

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