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Rainey and Price among 16 held in civil rights killings
Sixteen white men including Neshoba County Sheriff Lawr ence Rainey and Deputy Cecil Price were slated for arraignment after U.S. marshals seized them on federal indictments. Two suspects, James Edward Jordan and Horace Doyle Barnett, face separate cases. Courts said arraignments would occur in Jackson with pleas and trial dates to follow. The indictments accuse the group of conspiring to deprive civil rights and participating in a conspiracy to mete out “summary punishment.”
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Meridian, Miss
U.S
Harold Cox
Jackson
Meridian
James Edward Jordan
Horace Doyle Barnett
FBI
Jordan
Atlanta
Barnette
Shreveport
Esther Carter