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	Full coverage: Civil rights murder trial of Edgar Ray Killen - Full Trial Coverage on Courttv.com
		Edgar Ray Killen, the former Klansman convicted last year in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers, has been moved from his prison cell to a Jackson hospital, officials and family said Wednesday.
		A relative of Edgar Ray Killen, the 80-year-old former KKK leader convicted of masterminding the 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers, threatened to kill the judge prior to Killen's June 2005 trial, according to legal documents filed by the state Attorney General.
		Edgar Ray Killen, the 80-year-old preacher convicted of manslaughter for the 1964 deaths of three civil rights workers, was handed the maximum sentence — three terms of 20 years behind bars to be served consecutively.
	www.courttv.com /trials/killen/index.html (406 words)

	Online NewsHour: Former Ku Klux Klan Member Edgar Ray Killen Found Guilty of Manslaughter in 1964 Murders -- June 21, ...
		RAY SUAREZ: Sitting in a wheelchair with an oxygen tube attached to his nose, 80-year-old Edgar Ray Killen showed no emotion as a jury found him guilty of manslaughter in the slayings of three civil rights workers exactly 41 years ago.
		Edgar Ray Killen was a part-time preacher and sawmill operator at the time.
		RAY SUAREZ: Now in the summation, the defense attorney said that the prosecution wasn't able to put Edgar Ray Killen at the murder scene, wasn't able to put a weapon in his hand.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/race_relations/jan-june05/killen_6-21.html (1775 words)

	Edgar Ray Killen Freed on Bail
		Edgar Ray Killen, the former Klansman whose conviction in June in the 1964 killing of three civil rights workers in Mississippi seemed to close one of the state's darkest chapters, was released yesterday when a judge granted bail pending an appeal.
		Killen is recovering from a logging accident in March and required an oxygen tank at his trial.
		Killen, as other cases from the civil rights era were successfully reopened, resulting in convictions that at had one time seemed impossible.
	www.truthout.org /docs_2005/printer_081305F.shtml (878 words)

	Who is Edgar Ray Killen? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Killen was appointed kleagle, or klavern recruiter and organizer, for the Neshoba and Lauderdale County chapter of the Ku Klux Klan.
		The state of Mississippi made no real efforts to prosecute anyone in the case, but in December 1964, after the FBI further investigated the case, Killen was arrested with nineteen others and charged with conspiracy to violate the victims' civil rights (there were no federal murder statutes at the time).
		Killen was acquitted in a 1967 trial; the jury deadlocked 11-1 in favor of conviction, with the lone holdout saying she could never convict a preacher.
	www.juiceenewsdaily.com /0605/news/edgar_ray.html (408 words)

	Biography of Edgar Killen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Edgar Ray Killen, a thirty-eight-year-old, ordained Baptist minister, was the point man in the conspiracy to murder three civil rights workers in Neshoba County, Mississippi on June 21, 1964.
		Killen, the owner of a local sawmill and a former unsuccessful candidate for sheriff, was a marginal character until Sam Bowers appointed him "kleagle," or klavern recruiter and organizer, for the Neshoba and Lauderdale County klan.
		Is it true, Killen asked, that Johnson and Michael Schwerner had tried to "get young Negro males to sign statements that they would rape one white woman a week during the hot summer of 1964 here in Mississippi?" The judge was not amused by the question, and demanded to know where it came from.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/price&bowers/Killen.htm (547 words)

	Judge orders Killen returned to prison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The judge who granted bail to Edgar Ray Killen, the former Klansman convicted of the 1964 killing of three civil rights workers in Mississippi, was not as sympathetic Friday after hearing that the elderly Killen had been seen walking and driving unaided.
		Killen was convicted in the disappearance of three young Freedom Summer workers, James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who had been visiting Philadelphia to inspect a Black church burned by the Klan.
		Seven were convicted, but in Killen's case the all-White jury deadlocked, with 11 in favor of conviction and one holdout who said she could not convict Killen because the defendant was a preacher.
	www.azcentral.com /community/ahwatukee/articles/0910killen10.html (611 words)

	Jurors announce they are split 6-to-6 in Klansman's triple-murder trial - Courttv.com - Trials
		Edgar Ray Killen, seen Monday during closing arguments, is accused of masterminding the murders of three civil rights workers.
		Neither the judge in the trial of Edgar Ray Killen, nor the forewoman, who announced the 6-6 split to a stunned courtroom Monday night, referred to the division as a deadlock, and the panel is due back in court Tuesday morning to continue deliberations.
		In their closing arguments, defense lawyers emphasized that Killen was not at the crime scene and suggested he was just a low-level Klansmen who knew about the murders, but did not organize them.
	www.courttv.com /trials/killen/062005-pm_ctv.html (1178 words)

	Bail revocation sought in ex-Klansman's case \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Killen was convicted in June on three counts of manslaughter for masterminding the 1964 slayings of Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman.
		"Edgar Ray Killen's convictions, both for the deaths of Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman and for telephone harassment, demonstrate his propensity for violence and show that his continued release constitutes a special danger to the community," Hood wrote.
		Killen was tried in 1967 on federal charges of violating the victims' civil rights, but the all-white jury deadlocked, with one juror saying she could not convict a preacher.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050817/news_1n17killen.html (438 words)

	clarionledger.com
		Killen said he was preaching two funerals the night the men were slain and had nothing to do with the killings.
		Killen denied he was in the Klan or served as a leader.
		Killen admitted playing a role in one of the state's earliest civil rights incidents — the state's arrest of Clennon King in 1958 when he attempted to become the University of Mississippi's first known fl student.
	www.clarionledger.com /crimes/burn1-24-99.html (1262 words)

	CNN.com - Ex-Klansman sentenced to 60 years - Jun 23, 2005
		Edgar Ray Killen, 80, got a 60-year prison sentence for the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers.
		Killen, an 80-year-old part-time preacher, was convicted on three counts of manslaughter Tuesday, 41 years to the day a Klan mob ambushed and killed the civil rights workers -- James Chaney, 21; Andrew Goodman, 20; and Michael Schwerner, 24.
		Killen had faced first-degree murder charges, but the prosecution allowed the jury to consider the lesser charge of manslaughter in its deliberations.
	www.cnn.com /2005/LAW/06/23/mississippi.killings/index.html (738 words)

	USATODAY.com - Edgar Ray Killen is hospitalized (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		His brother, Jerry Killen, told The Associated Press that the 81-year-old had been hospitalized for complications from a severe leg injury he sustained in a logging accident in 2005.
		A tree fell on Killen while he was cutting wood last March, just months before he was convicted of three counts of manslaughter in the slayings James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman.
		Killen was the only person to face state charges in the three deaths, which were dramatized in the 1988 movie Mississippi Burning.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2006-03-29-killen_x.htm (297 words)

	Edgar Ray Killen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Edgar Ray (Preacher) Killen (born 1925) is an American former Ku Klux Klan organizer who conspired to molest several civil rights activists in 1964.
		Killen was arrested for three counts of murder on January 6, 2005.
		On March 29, 2006, Killen was moved from his prison cell to a Jackson, Mississippi, hospital to treat complications from the severe leg injury he sustained in the logging accident in 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edgar_Ray_Killen (1123 words)

	Edgar Ray Killen (Mississippi Burning murder case) is convicted of the 1964 killing of civil rights workers in ...
		Killen, an 80-year-old sawmill operator and part-time preacher, said nothing and showed no emotion, but moved his lips up and down as the verdict was read on each of the three counts.
		Killen is on trial in the deaths of the three men, who were in the town to investigate the burning of a fl church.
		Killen told The Clarion-Ledger that he is innocent, that he had nothing to do with the killings and that he was at a funeral home that night.
	www.useekufind.com /peace/killen.htm (13025 words)

	FOXNews.com - Jury Finds Killen Guilty of Manslaughter - U.S. & World
		Killen, a bald figure with owlish bifocals, sat impassively in his wheelchair, an oxygen tube up his nose, as he listened to the verdict.
		Killen, who was in a wheelchair because of a logging accident in which he broke his legs, was surrounded by more than a dozen armed officers as he was wheeled from the courthouse and taken off to jail.
		Killen did not take the stand, but has long claimed he was at a wake at a funeral home when the victims were killed.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,160215,00.html (1523 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Ex-Klansman gets 60 years for 1964 slayings of civil rights workers
		Killen is the only person who has faced state murder charges in the case.
		Killen had been convicted in 1975 of threatening a woman over the telephone, a case that Gordon himself had prosecuted.
		Killen uses a wheelchair because of a logging accident that broke both of his legs in March, and he had an oxygen tube up his nose during the reading of the verdict on Tuesday.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002345461_webkillen23.html (512 words)

	CNN.com - Former Klansman found guilty of manslaughter - Jun 22, 2005
		Killen, 80, displayed no emotion as the verdicts were read.
		And the cause of it, the main instigator of it was Edgar Ray Killen and no one else," the district attorney said.
		The balding, bespectacled Killen -- a former part-time Baptist preacher -- appeared to be sleeping during much of the closing remarks.
	www.cnn.com /2005/LAW/06/21/mississippi.killings/index.html (986 words)

	Judge Orders Edgar Ray Killen to Prison
		Killen told Gordon he was losing use of his right hand while in prison.
		Killen’s wife, Betty Jo, told the court Friday her husband could not walk or go to the bathroom without help.
		Killen was convicted of manslaughter for masterminding the June 21, 1964, slayings of James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, who were killed while working in Mississippi to register fls to vote.
	www.religionnewsblog.com /12188/judge-orders-edgar-ray-killen-to-prison (708 words)

	SPLCenter.org: Killen found guilty of manslaughter
		Killen, 80, was arrested Jan. 6 in connection with their deaths.
		During the trial, Killen's lawyers admitted he was in the Klan but argued that his Klan membership alone did not make him guilty of murder.
		Killen's arrest marks the first time the state of Mississippi has brought criminal charges in connection with the case.
	www.splcenter.org /news/item.jsp?aid=114 (587 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Mississippi ex-Klansman convicted
		Killen now faces up to 20 years in jail for the role he played 41 years ago.
		Killen - who is a Baptist preacher - showed no emotion as the verdict was read in the courtroom in the town of Philadelphia.
		Mr Killen, who was a suspect in the original investigation but never convicted, was re-arrested after new evidence emerged.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/4116870.stm (424 words)

	The Edgar Ray Killen Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Killen: Old John Doar kept staring at me, like he was trying to look right through me. I stared right back at him and gave him the finger.
		Killen: When he was running for office, Winter came up to me and told me that he was "on my side," but that he would have to keep it quiet.
		But, Killen, although he "gave the finger" to his prosecutors forty years earlier, was incapable in his old age of mounting such a defense.
	www.nationalist.org /docs/ideology/killen.html (1074 words)

	FOXNews.com - Killen Sentenced to 60 Years for 1964 Slayings - U.S. & World
		Killen sat in his wheelchair in a bright yellow jail uniform and stared straight ahead, stone-faced, offering no remorse and no explanations, as Judge Marcus Gordon gave him the maximum and closed one of the most shocking chapters in the movement to end segregation across the South.
		On Thursday, Killen wore a big gap-toothed grin as he was brought into court in the wheelchair he has used since he broke his legs in a logging accident in March.
		Killen's wife, Betty Jo, pushed past security to give her husband three kisses before he was wheeled from the courtroom with a wall of law officers around him.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,160445,00.html (949 words)

	Online NewsHour Update: Killen Sentenced to 60 Years for 1964 Killings -- June 23, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Former Klansman Edgar Ray Killen is found guilty of manslaughter.
		Killen, a Mississippi resident, became the only person to face state murder charges for the three deaths when he went on trial this month.
		Killen, a former Baptist minister, was accused of helping plan their deaths.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/updates/killen_06-23-05.html (368 words)

	USATODAY.com - Judge denies Killen's request for new trial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Killen waves to his family as he is brought into the courtroom Monday.
		Killen, an 80-year-old sawmill worker, part-time preacher and former Ku Klux Klan member, was convicted by a jury on three counts of manslaughter in the June 21, 1964, slayings of James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman.
		They told Gordon that Killen deserves a new trial because prosecutors, who had indicted Killen on three counts of murder, didn't tell the defense attorneys in advance that they planned to ask the judge to give jurors the option of convicting Killen of manslaughter.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2005-06-27-killen_x.htm (334 words)

	New Twist In 1964 Miss. Killings - CBS News
		Killen, a preacher and one-time Ku Klux Klan leader, has been free since a few hours after the bond was granted.
		The judge said during a hearing Friday in Philadelphia that bond must be granted in a manslaughter case unless a defendant is either a flight risk or a danger to the community.
		Killen was convicted in June on three counts of manslaughter for masterminding the 1964 slayings of civil-rights workers Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/08/16/national/main781368.shtml (542 words)

	USNews.com: Nation & World: Killen gets maximum in civil rights killings
		Former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen has been sentenced to serve the maximum 60 years for the three counts of manslaughter in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Neshoba County, Miss [Trying Times, 6/27/05].
		State Attorney General Jim Hood had indicted Killen for three counts of murder in January, but some jurors didn't believe the state had provided enough evidence to convict him of that charge.
		Killen has long been suspected of organizing the carloads of Klansmen who killed the three voting-rights workers on June 21, 1964.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/news/articles/050623/23killenmax.htm (333 words)

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