PHILADELPHIA — It’s not the kind of thing folks talk about over sweaty glasses of sweet iced tea, not in this polite little town of 7,300, where blacks and whites mostly appear to live in harmony …
NEW YORK — It is one of the more overworked words in America today: closure, the suggestion that a single moment or event will somehow end the abiding pain of having lost a loved one. If Osama bin …
I was one of the first two reporters to arrive in Philadelphia, Miss., in 1964, on the day Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman went missing. I was there as Newsweek’s main reporter on …
Some in the national media and in the ranks of those for whom racial strife is a cottage industry chose to point to the fact that Edgar Ray Killen was convicted of three counts of manslaughter rather …
The Florida Klansman refused to give his real name. On the courthouse steps where blacks were once beaten for getting too “uppity,” in a town Martin Luther King Jr. once called the worst …
There’s no dateline on this column to note where it was written. Technically, it was done in Tupelo, but the column actually originated in Philadelphia. My footprints are all over those red clay …
Our View – Forty-one years later, justice is finally served for Edgar Ray Killen. On June 21, 1964, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were murdered along a dark roadside in …
Last Monday evening, after deliberating more than two hours, the jury reported to Judge Marcus Gordon that they were evenly divided and he dismissed them for the night. But after deliberating for …
As the Killen trial closed last week, Judge Marcus Gordon made some interesting comments about the scores of news reporters, photographers and producers that had been hard at work in Philadelphia for …
Edgar Ray Killen did his community’s bidding. It was of no little consequence that Ronald Reagan launched his successful presidential bid from here. Were it not for outside agitators he probably …
PHILADELPHIA, Miss. — In small towns, news always travels fast. So it didn’t take long for the hordes of visitors in town for the Edgar Ray Killen trial to find out about Peggy’s …
The Coffee Bean went wireless and thrived off the lunch traffic during the Edgar Ray Killen murder trial. But some downtown businesses suffered. It depends on whom you ask. Many establishments …
Joy Porterfield remembers that morning in rural Neshoba County 41 years ago. “It was just burnt, burnt to the ground,” she said. “That old wooden church.” The day was June 17, 1964, …
About 10 teen-agers wearing solid orange shirts shuffled out of the Neshoba County Courthouse Wednesday afternoon. “This should be a time for us to curse,” 15-year-old Cornesha Ward said. …
Witnesses literally spoke from the grave through transcripts from a 1967 conspiracy case when the triple murder trial of Edgar Ray Killen got under way Friday morning. A school teacher and …
A mistake by Circuit Court Judge Marcus D. Gordon stopped audio recording of the opening arguments of the Edgar Ray Killen murder trial Wednesday. The mistake meant that dozens of journalists …
The prosecution rested its case Saturday, calling Fannie Lee Chaney, the mother of murdered civil rights worker James Chaney, to the stand. The 82-year-old mother of five recounted the last time she …
Opening statements in the Edgar Ray Killen murder trial began after the jury filed into the courtroom Wednesday. Attorney General Jim Hood told jurors they would have to rely on their memories …
Edgar Ray Killen explained when, how and where three civil rights workers were murdered the day after the crime occurred, a witness testified Friday in Killen’s murder trial. The witness, …
The jury which decided the fate of Edgar Ray Killen consisted of nine whites and three blacks who work as nurses, educators, and in a variety of other professions. It included: •A 72-year-old …
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