KKK Leader found gulity

On the 41st anniversary of the killings that came to define their state as an outpost of racial hate, a Mississippi jury Tuesday convicted former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen of manslaughter in the 1964 deaths of three civil rights workers.

After a 6-6 jury split Monday that had prosecutors deflated over the possibility of an acquittal, a jury of nine whites and three blacks gathered around the bench of Judge Marcus Gordon on Tuesday morning with a conviction of the former Baptist preacher.

Although the verdict was not the murder conviction that prosecutors sought, the jurors rendered one manslaughter count each for slain “Freedom Summer” volunteers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner.

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