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Thread: Mississippi Burning Leader, Edgar Killeen, Has Died.

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    Mississippi Burning Leader, Edgar Killeen, Has Died.

    JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Edgar Ray Killen, a 1960s Ku Klux Klan leader who was convicted decades later in the "Mississippi Burning" slayings of three civil rights workers, has died in prison at the age of 92, the state's corrections department announced Friday.
    The one-time Klan leader was serving three consecutive 20-year terms for manslaughter when he died at 9 p.m. Thursday night inside the Mississippi State Penitentiary. An autopsy was pending, but no foul play was suspected, the corrections' statement said.
    His conviction came 41 years to the day after James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, all in their 20s, were ambushed and killed by Klansmen.

    https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/m...165844512.html

    Good Riddance.

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    Oh yes I remember him. No RIP. Those brutal murders....so horrible have always upset me so...I will never understand the hate.

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    The movie was so sad, I agree no RIP for him.

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