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Breaking News -- 6/21/2005
Killen convicted in killings of civil-rights workers
PHILADELPHIA, Miss. — A former Ku Klux Klansman was convicted of manslaughter Tuesday in the 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers — exactly 41 years to the date that James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were ambushed, beaten, and shot. The jury of nine whites and three blacks reached the verdict on their second day of deliberations, rejecting murder charges against Edgar Ray Killen, 80. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS --
Killen convicted in killings of civil-rights workers
PHILADELPHIA, Miss. — A former Ku Klux Klansman was convicted of manslaughter Tuesday in the 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers — exactly 41 years to the date that James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were ambushed, beaten, and shot. The jury of nine whites and three blacks reached the verdict on their second day of deliberations, rejecting murder charges against Edgar Ray Killen, 80. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS --
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