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PHILADELPHIA. Miss. (AP — Anger, unrest and unanswered questions gripped thiseastern Mississippi town today after the FBI arrested 21 white men Friday in connection with the murder of three civil rights workers last summer.Twenty of the 21, including Neshoba County Sheriff Iaw-rence Rainey, Deputy Cecil Price and five Ku Klux Klans-men, were free on bond, awaiting a hearing in federal court at nearby Meridian Thursday.The FBI charged 19 of the men with violating the civilrights of the three workers, and the other two as accessories.The FBI complaint said Price and nine of the others plotted the interception of the workers near Philadelphia and that it was part of the conspiracy that they “would threaten, assault,shoot and kill them.The victims were Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, two white New Yorkers, and James Chaney, a Negro of Meridian. Miss. They disappeared after going to Philadelphia from nearby Meridian to iContinued on page iwo»Sheriff SeemingRelaxedFaceFederal ChargeMERIDIAN, Miss. lt;AP) -Sheriff Lawrence Rainey of Neshoba County stuffed a huge cut of chewing tobacco Into his mouth and settled back on a sofa in the officers’ lounge of the Naval Air Station.Smiling around the bulge in his cheeks, the sheriff showed no trace of worry on his broad,red fscc.He might have been settlingdown to watch his favorite television program.But a few minutes earlier Rainey had stood in front of the sofa with 17 other white menand listened to the reading of a federal complaint charging them with criminal conspiracy in the slaying of three civil rights workers last summer inNeshoba County.Federal agents Friday arrested 21 white men in connection with the murders. The sheriff and Deputy Cecil Price were in the group arraigned at Meridian Naval Auxiliary Air Station, which is 23 miles north of thecity.It was an unusual setting. The television sets had been moved [Continued on page two)The Nations Newsnaners
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Laurel Leader Call
Laurel, Mississippi, US
Sat, Dec 05, 1964
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