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Edgar Ray Killen (January 17, 1925 – January 11, 2018) was an American Ku Klux Klan organizer who planned and directed the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, three civil rights activists participating in the Freedom Summer of 1964.
Jan 12, 2018 · Edgar Ray Killen, the former Klansman who was sentenced to a 60-year prison term in 2005 for arranging the murders of three young civil rights workers outside Philadelphia, Miss., in 1964 during...
Jan 12, 2018 · Edgar Ray Killen, the former Klansman responsible for the infamous murder of three Freedom Summer workers in 1964, has died in a Mississippi prison. Their story inspired...
Mar 21, 2018 · Stubborn and willing to take up violence as a Ku Klux Klan kleagle in rural Mississippi, prison did nothing to mellow Edgar Ray Killen. Killen received 17 disciplinary write-ups from the time he entered state prison in Mississippi in 2009 until his death in January at the age of 92.
Jan 12, 2018 · JACKSON, Miss. — Edgar Ray Killen, a former Ku Klux Klan leader who was convicted in the 1964 'Mississippi Burning' slayings of three civil rights workers, has died in prison at...
Jan 13, 2018 · Edgar Ray Killen, the 1960s Ku Klux Klan leader who was convicted over the infamous deaths of three civil rights workers in Mississippi, has died. The 92-year-old was serving a 60-year...
Jan 12, 2018 · Edgar Ray Killen, a former Ku Klux Klan leader who was convicted in the 1964 “Mississippi Burning” slayings of three civil rights workers, has died in prison at the age of 92, the...
Jan 12, 2018 · Edgar Ray Killen — the Klansman who orchestrated one of the nation’s most notorious mass killings, the slayings of three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964 — has died.
Jun 22, 2005 · Jury in Philadelphia, Miss, convicts Edgar Ray Killen of manslaughter in deaths of young civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney, who disappeared in Neshoba...
Jun 24, 2005 · Edgar Ray Killen is sentenced to 60 years in prison for his role in deaths of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Miss, in 1964; lawyer for 80-year-old former Klansman says he will appeal...
