'Mississippi Burning' trial to recall civil rights battles

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by debwire | June 12, 2005 at 09:03 pm
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Jury selection begins Monday in a 1964 civil rights case that still haunts this rural town of 7,300 residents.

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at 14:20 on June 21st, 2005

Found guilty, according to this news report:

PHILADELPHIA, Mississippi (CNN) --
Forty-one years to the day three civil rights workers were ambushed and
killed by a Ku Klux Klan mob, a jury found former Klansman Edgar Ray
Killen guilty of all three counts of manslaughter Tuesday.

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