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FBI Describes Suspects In Rights Slayings In Mississippi
The FBI named 21 men tied to the 1963 civil rights workers murder case in Mississippi. Among those listed are Frank Herndon of Meridian, dubbed Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan, sheriff’s officer Lawrence Rainey, and multiple Klansmen and ex servicemen from Philadelphia, Meridian, and nearby towns. The group spans ages 17 to 71 and includes a preacher, a sawmill operator, a truck driver, and a former Marine, with several charged under the Civil Rights Act for beating prisoners in 1962.
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Philadelphia
FBI
Mississippi
Neshoba
Lauderdale
Ku Klux Klan
Edgar Killen
Rainey
Killen
Salem Church
Neshoba County
Zion Church
Kemper County
Jackson
Price
Horace Doyle Barnette
Bossier City
Barnette
Alton Wayne Roberts
Alabama
Roberts
Marine Corps
Meridian
Otha Neal Burkes
Burkes
Travis Maryn Barnette
Air Force
Ner
B&s
James
Thomas Harris
Hardin’s Bakery
Bernard Lee Akin
Mississippis Delta
Tin Meridian
Klan
Oliver Richard Warriner Jr
James Edward Jordan
Gulfport
Jerry McGrew Sharpe
Olen Lovell Burrage
Jimmy Arledge
Jett
Colege
Jimmy Snowden
Mississippi Junior College
Tommy A. Horne
University of Miami
Florida
Meridian Junior College
Bonita
Miss
Billy Wayne Posey
Williamsville
Townsend
Zephry Hill