Edgar Ray Killen

Edgar Ray Preacher Killen is a former Ku Klux Klan organizer who planned and directed the murders of three civil rights activistsJames Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwernerin 1964. He was found guilty in state court of three counts of manslaughter on June 21, 2005, the fortyfirst anniversary of the crime, and sentenced to 60 years in prison. He appealed the verdict, but the sentence was upheld on January 12, 2007, by the Mississippi Supreme Court.

Edgar Ray Killen was born in Philadelphia, Mississippi, the second of eight children of Lonnie Ray Killen and Etta Killen . Killen was a sawmill operator and a parttime minister. He was a kleagle, or klavern recruiter and organizer, for the Neshoba and Lauderdale County chapters of the Ku Klux Klan.

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