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Matron Recounts Warning in Civil Rights Trio Case
Meridian Mississippi jail matron testified that Deputy Price warned three civil rights workers you all see how quick you all can get out of Neshoba County. The trial covers 18 defendants including Sheriff Lawrence Rainey Imperial Wizard Sam Bowers and others in the 1964 murders of Schwerner Goodman and Chaney. The case hinges on a Reconstruction era conspiracy charge with possible ten year sentences and five thousand dollar fines.
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Neshoba County
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Michael Schwerner
Andrey Goodman
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James Chaney
Philadelphia
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John Doar
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Piet Dear
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Sam Holloway Bowers Jr
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Lawrence Rainey
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Olen L. Burrage
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