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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.
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 · 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...
Jun 21, 2005 · Former Ku Klux Klan member Edgar Ray Killen, 80, was found guilty of manslaughter Tuesday in the 1964 killing of three civil rights workers.
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...
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...
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 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...
Oct 28, 2009 · Edgar Ray Killen, an 80-year-old sawmill operator, part-time Baptist preacher and alleged leader of the hate group, the Ku Klux Klan, was given the maximum sentence of 60 years in prison, after...
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...
