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Ex-KKK leader guilty in 1964 killings

BNE: An 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klan leader, Edgar Ray Killen, has been found guilty of _______ manslaughter over the _______ killings of three civil rights workers in Mississippi, in 1964. Although he escaped charges of murder, he faces a maximum penalty of twenty years imprisonment, which means he will probably be _______ until his death. He was _______ arrested for the murders 41 years ago but was released because of insufficient evidence. New evidence only recently came to _______. The former white supremacist, now wheelchair _______, sank his head as the verdict was read and was _______ by relatives. The victims’ relatives waiting outside the court greeted the ruling with cheers of _______ that justice had finally been done.		light mob jubilation bound incarcerated triple consoled initially
Killen was convicted of organizing the _______ mob that _______ and then beat and shot to death Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, white New Yorkers, and James Chaney, a black man from Mississippi. All were in their early twenties. Their bodies were found at a Mississippi _______ seven weeks after they were abducted. The three were on a campaign to _______ black people to vote in elections in America’s southern states, which were _______ segregated at the time. The _______ slayings shocked America and galvanized the U.S. civil rights movement into fighting to end _______. Their story was _______ in the 1988 movie Mississippi Burning.		encourage dramatized brutal ambushed segregation roadside lynch deeply

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BNE: An 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klan leader, Edgar Ray Killen, has been found guilty of triple manslaughter over the mob killings of three civil rights workers in Mississippi, in 1964. Although he escaped charges of murder, he faces a maximum penalty of twenty years imprisonment, which means he will probably be incarcerated until his death. He was initially arrested for the murders 41 years ago but was released because of insufficient evidence. New evidence only recently came to light. The former white supremacist, now wheelchair bound, sank his head as the verdict was read and was consoled by relatives. The victims’ relatives waiting outside the court greeted the ruling with cheers of jubilation that justice had finally been done.

Killen was convicted of organizing the lynch mob that ambushed and then beat and shot to death Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, white New Yorkers, and James Chaney, a black man from Mississippi. All were in their early twenties. Their bodies were found at a Mississippi roadside seven weeks after they were abducted. The three were on a campaign to encourage black people to vote in elections in America’s southern states, which were deeply segregated at the time. The brutal slayings shocked America and galvanized the U.S. civil rights movement into fighting to end segregation. Their story was dramatized in the 1988 movie Missaissippi Burning.

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