Killen: "NOT GUILTY"

Protestors March Against State Fair

The Mississippi state fair is now in full swing, despite the controversy that has surrounded weeks leading to this years event.

There was a great public debate when reports circulated that self-proclaimed Ku Klux Klan member Edgar Ray Killen would appear in a booth off the midway.

Last week, Killen released a statement saying he never planned to attend. Despite that, his ability to attend the fair, and promote his groups propaganda has sparked a protest in the African American community.

College students and leaders in the African co
munity took to the streets, over 150 strong, Protesting the Mississippi State Fair.

Despite the announcement that Edgar Ray Killen wouldn't set up a booth, t
he protestors say it was still their duty to stand up in opposition agai
nst fair organizers decision, to let him on the grounds.

Marcher Dr Glenda Glover, "Just because he pulled out of the fair, if he ever attended the fair, there's still the thought process that led him to having a booth is still there."

Jackson S.C.L.C. President Stephanie Parker Weaver says, "Not because Killen pulled out, because the fair commission made a decision that affected all of us and insulted all of us we are still outraged at the initial decision that shouldn't have occurred in the first place."

The march attracted supporters from the Mississippi delta, and across state lines.

With every step the group hopes to get closer to their goal, get enough
signatures on a petition to get Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood to re-open the 1964 murder case where three civil rights workers were murdered in Neshoba County, and one Killen was once tried for.


The marchers guarded by a heavy Jackson police presence, just in case, but no incidents were reported. The
officers earning overtime, a cost the city taxpayers will have to absorb, which is creating yet another debate.

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Edgar Ray Killen has not been convicted of any crime, yet niggers would deny him the right to have a booth at the fair. Niggers, one of these days you are going to push it just a little too far.

T.N.B.
 
Charges possible in '64 killings

Mississippi will make history early next year when Attorney General Jim Hood convenes a grand jury to consider the first-ever murder charges in the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers that helped cement the state's image as a haven of hate and violence.

"We should be able to conclude our investigation by the end of January," Hood said. "I can't comment on grand jury proceedings or when the grand jury will meet."

The Neshoba County grand jury meets Jan. 4 to consider other criminal cases, but under state law prosecutors can call the panel back at any time to consider evidence against suspects in the June 21, 1964, killings of Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and Ja
mes Chaney.
Eight of those accused in that case are still alive. Auth
orities have said reported Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen
 
Reward offered in '64 killings

For the first time in more than 40 years, Mississippians are offering a reward for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of Klansmen who killed three civil rights workers in 1964.

The Mississippi Religious Leadership Conference
 
Hood seeks informants' help

State Attorney General Jim Hood said some FBI informants who helped identify suspects in the Klan's 1964 killings of three civil rights workers have not come forward to help with the state's prosecution.

"I request those people tell us what they know and clear their consciences," he said.

Since Hood's request last year for federal assistance in the investigation, the FBI has been tracking down former informants from the case and seeking their cooperation. But it won't give Hood their names.

"We know there's a sacred bond that law enforcement makes with these informants to not reveal their names," Hood said.

He said he has no desi
re for the FBI to break those promises, but he does want the informants to share what they know.

The st
ate last week secured the first-ever murder indictment in the case.

Edgar Ray Killen, 79, a former sawmill operator who also is a Baptist preacher, pleaded innocent Friday to three counts of murder in the June 21, 1964, killings of Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman.

Since the FBI keeps the names of informants confidential, Hood has no idea how many informants there are and how valuable their information would be to the case.

Several informants who were willing to come forward played a key role in the 1967 federal conspiracy trial of 18 people. Eight of those defendants are still alive, but the Neshoba County grand jury last week indicted only Killen.

Killen is being held without bond. He is scheduled to have a bond hearing Wednesday.

No date has been set for Killen's trial, but District Attorney Mark Duncan predicted it will be held
as early as summer.

He said the transcript of the 1967 federal conspiracy trial will play a key role. It includes the testimo
ny of several Klansmen who implicated Killen. The jury deadlocked 11-1 in favor of Killen's guilt when the holdout told fellow jurors she "could never convict a preacher."

Under Mississippi court rules, sworn testimony of witnesses who are dead or unavailable may be introduced just like live testimony as long as those witnesses were cross-examined.

Such testimony has been used in other old cases involving civil rights slayings.

Since 1989, authorities in Mississippi and five other states have reexamined 23 killings from the civil rights era and made 27 arrests, leading to 21 convictions, two acquittals and one mistrial.

An incentive for informants in the 1964 prosecution or anyone else with information to come forward is a $100,000 reward offered by the Mississippi Religious Leadership Conference
 
From: crosstar
Subject: Barrett on National Public Radio
Date: Jan 10, 2005 2:27 PM
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BARRETT ON NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO

LOS ANGELES - Richard Barrett will appear on National Public Radio at 6:05
AM (Pacific Standard Time) (8:05 AM, Central Standard Time), Tuesday, January
11, 2005, to discuss the case of Sixties' anti-Communist Edgar Ray Killen. The
Tony Cox Show, originating from Los Angeles, will examine constitutional and
political issues in re-prosecuting the forty-year-old case, against an eighty-year-old
defendant, who had previously been tried but not convicted. Barrett has called
it "not a prosecution, but a persecution" and predicted abolition of affirmative-action
juries and the Voting Rights Act as a backlash.

The Nationalist Movement
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To: crosstarlist@nationalist.org
Subject: NPR Cancels Barrett
Date: Jan 10, 2005 3:16 PM
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NPR CANCELS BARRETT

The appearance by Richard Barrett on National Public Radio at 6:05 AM (Pacific Standard
Time)
January 11, 2005, to discuss the case of Sixties' anti-Communist Edgar Ray Killen,
has been cancelled.
According to Tony Cox, the Negro host, a substitution was made after Barrett told
producers that Neshoba
County, Mississippi District Attorney Mark Duncan, also appearing as a guest, was
"pandering to the
colored vote."

Cory Turner, producer for the Tony Cox Show, originating from Los Angeles, had asked
Barrett to dissect
constitutional and political issues in re-prosecuting the forty-year-old case, against
an eighty-year-old
de
fendant, who had previously been tried but not convicted. But, when Barrett called
it "not a prosecution,
nbut a persecution" and predicted abolition of affirmative-action juries and
the Voting Rights Act as a backlash,
Turner said that "we have to draw the line somewhere. My apologies for any
inconvenience."

http://www.nationalist.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=744#744
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Tony Cox
NPR News with Tony Cox
 
Killen Trial Set for March

PHILADELPHIA, Miss. (AP) -- A $250,000 bond was ordered Wednesday for a reputed one-time Klansman charged with the 1964 murders of three civil rights in rural Mississippi.

There was no immediate word on whether Edgar Ray Killen, who stood before the judge in an orange jail jumpsuit but without the handcuffs used during last week's arraignment, would be able to post the bond.

Circuit Judge Marcus Gordon set a March 28 trial date after meeting with attorneys in his chambers.

Killen, a 79-year-old part-time preacher from the tiny Union community, is the first person face a state murder charge in the killings that focused national attention on the civil rights struggle in the South. The murders were dramatized in the 1988 movie
"Mississippi Burning."

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If
the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit!

T.N.B.
 
Maybe the police did it. The film (I never watch that liberal vomit) is apparently inconsistent.

On the surface, Ingram seems to have the perfect credentials for investigating hate crimes. As head of the FBI in the state during the 1960s, he investigated the burnings of several black churches -- as well as the murders of civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman. Many say that the heroic FBI agent portrayed in the Hollywood movie Mississippi Burning was based on Ingram.

But Ingram has a little-known history of working to undermine black citizens in Mississippi. At the same time that he was supposedly investigating racially motivated attacks during the '60s, Ingram also served in the FBI Division Five "Racial Intelligence" Section which carried out the notorious counterintelligence program known as COINTELPRO.
The purpose of the program, according to a 1967 memo
by then-FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, was to "disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize black nationalist hate-type organizations." The program targeted black leaders such as Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Stokely Carmichael, Elijah Mohammed of the Nation of Islam, and the Black Panther Party.

After details from COINTELPRO were released, Ingram was sued for violating the civil rights of Muhammed Kenyatta, a student activist at Tougaloo College. Ingram and two other FBI agents forged a letter to Kenyatta from a student group threatening him with physical harm if he set foot on campus. The forgers spelled out their intent in an FBI document obtained under the Freedom of Information Act: "It is hoped that this letter if approved and forwarded to [Kenyatta] will give him the impression that he has been discredited at Tougaloo College and is no longer welcome there." The document concluded: "It may possibly also
cause him to leave Mississippi."

Kenyatta received the forged letter a few
days after someone fired shots into his car. He left Mississippi shortly afterward.
 
This trial is symbolic of nigger justice if nothing else. Remember this, "If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit."
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Did I say 'nigger justice'? I'm sorry. What I meant to say was nigger JustUs.

T.N.B.
 
Most of these property crimes were committed by white trash who associated with the negro. The Onion Field and in Cold Blood are examples of such temporary salt and pepper relationships, or in the former case native american. Afro----(or whatever hyphanated half-assed-part-time citizen)-----American, justice is when a murder or rapist is classified as a RETARD so as to avoid due process.
 
Killen: "NOT GUILTY"
Trial date March 28

(Original thread by Tyrone N. Butts)

EdgarRayKillen2.jpg


Ref:
79-year-old Man claims innocence in 1964 civil rights murders - (Tyrone N. Butts)

Activist Richard Barrett Says Reopening Murder Case Violates Killen's Civil Rights

Nationalists renew th
eir petition-drive, over the Internet, in behalf of speedy trials and against double-jeopardy

Barrett: I'll tell you what I was right about. Defend
ing the Bill of Rights,
which says, first of all, there is the Fifth Amendment, which says that you cannot have double-jeopardy.
You cannot try a man twice. Killen has already been tried but not convicted.
 
Indictment Could Spur More Tips In Civil Rights Slayings

JACKSON, Miss. -- Fifteen people have responded to the $100,000-thousand dollar reward offered by the Mississippi Religious Leadership Conference in the investigation of the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers in Neshoba County.

With the recent indictment of Edgar Ray Killen, Religious Leadership Conference attorney Wayne Drinkwater hopes that more people come forward.

The reward was posted on Dec. 20 for information involving the June 21, 1964, killings of Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney.

Killen, a 79-year-old sawmill owner and preacher was indicted Jan. 6, has pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder. His trial is set for March 28.

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Honest people don&#
39;t take money for telling the truth. If the glove doe
sn't fit, you must acquit.

T.N.B.
 
http://www.vdare.com/francis/050117_tales.htm

For MLK Day, A Tale Of Two Murders
By Sam Francis

Like the fog in Carl Sandburg's insipid poem, Martin Luther King Day this year seems to have crept up on the nation on little cat feet. We have heard few of the usual neo-conservative slobberings over how they wish they could have marched with King in Selma, nor even many of the usual lamentations of King's now-decrepit comrades that nobody sufficiently appreciates their accomplishments.

Those noises may yet come, but the real reason we have not heard them so far may be that the festivities arrived a bit early this year, in the arrest of 79-year-old former Klansman Edgar Ray Killen for the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi.

The murders of course were notorious at the t
ime and are immortalized by Hollywood in the 1988 anti-white film
"Mississippi Burning," which manages to smear every white man and woman in the state (and by implication everywhere else) by virtually stating that whites are by nature genocidal.

It's therefore not too surprising that the media reaction to Mr. Killen's arrest has been one of almost universal gloating. To bust a 79-year-old white Southerner for racial murders is almost as much fun as deporting 80-year-old concentration camp guards to communist countries to stand trial for war crimes, and that amusement has worn thin in recent years. Concentration camp guards have the habit of dying natural deaths eventually, but there's an endless supply of white Southerners to put on trial closer to home.

But Mr. Killen wasn't the only unusual suspect to win the interest of the national press last week. The New York Times, after a large story about his arrest and the murders and a long interview with the surviving relati
ves of the victims, also found space to tell us all about another killer of the same era
 
Bill to honor victims of 1964 slayings not called up for vote

A Senate committee chairman refused to take up a bill Tuesday to honor the three men killed by the Klan in 1964 by renaming part of Mississippi 19 after them.

That means neither the committee nor the full Senate can vote on the measure.

The bill's sponsor, Sen. Gloria Williamson, D-Philadelphia, said Billy Hewes III, chairman of the Senate Highways and Transportation Committee, told her a few weeks ago there was no problem in introducing her bill, but told her Tuesday he would not bring it up "because it's in litigation."

Hewes, R-Gulfport, explained Tuesday that he was referring to the recent arrest of Edgar Ray Killen in the June 21,
1964, killings of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerne
r. Killen has pleaded innocent in the case.

Naming highways generally involves little controversy, but "this bill could be politicized," Hewes said.

Many other bills didn't make it out of committee, either, he said. Of the 40 bills introduced this session, fewer than 10 made it out of the committee.

Williamson said renaming the highway should have nothing to do with Killen's arrest. "Don't you think the families would love to see something named after them?" she said she told Hewes.

She appealed to the chairman to keep the legislation alive. "I said, 'Please don't kill this bill because it's a little controversial,'" she said. "Why have a Legislature if we can't handle controversial issues?"

Jewel McDonald, a member of the Philadelphia Coalition, which has backed the legislation, views the slain trio as heroes. &qu
ot;They were doing something good for people, trying to register people to vote," she said. "It's appropriate for something to be named in their h
onor."

By giving their lives, they made a difference not only in Mississippi, but the nation, she said. "If they hadn't been killed, who knows if the Voting Rights Act (of 1965) would have ever passed?"

She sometimes passes highways named after people whose names she's never heard, she said. "Everybody knows who these young men were. People all over the world know who they were."

As it stands now, "there's nothing at the courthouse, nothing at any public place, so something should be named in their honor," she said.

Under the legislation introduced by Williamson, the portion of Mississippi 19 from the city limits of Philadelphia to the Lauderdale County line would be named after the trio, pursued by Klansmen down that road before being kidnapped and killed.

To
keep her proposal alive, Williamson said she plans to move to amend every bill introduced that would rename portions of highways. There are seven such bills pending.

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"If they ha
dn't been killed, who knows if the Voting Rights Act (of 1965) would have ever passed?"
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Don't tease me.

T.N.B.
 
Killen's Attorney Requests Tip-Line Records

The attorney for Edgar Ray Killen wants to see records of a tip line that offered a $100,000 reward for information about the murder of three civil rights workers in 1964.

The motion is one of several filed by Carthage Attorney Mitch Moran on behalf of Killen, an 80-year-old reputed klansmen and part-time preacher. The motions will be heard in Philadelphia February 24th by Circuit Judge Marcus Gordon. Killen is charged with three counts of murder in the 1964 freedom summer killings of Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney. He has pleaded innocent and remains free on $250,000 bond.

Killen's trial is set for March 28th.

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Smart move!

T.N.B.
 
Edgar Ray Killen breaks his silence

???? For the first time in more than 35 years,?the man known as "Preacher" Killen talks publicly about his life, his faith and what he knows about the murders of three civil rights workers in 1964.

???? Edgar Ray Killen is?80 years-old and faces three murder charges.?He has never granted an in-depth, one-on-one interview before. Killen seat down with News Channel 12's Nathan Mihelich and talked?about growing up in Philadelphia, his religious beliefs, and his relationships with the victims.

?????Killen did have a message for the people of Mississippi.

Killen's Message

???? "From what I've heard, I want them to know I'm very grateful f
or their support," Said Edgar Ray Killen. "And I'm not talking about 100-percen
t of them but I think I'm talking about a majority. That I'm very grateful and that really I love them. I'm more proud of Mississippi today than I've ever been."
???? There is more to the Killen interview. Wednesday night at 10pm News Channel 12's Nathan Mihelich talks with Killen about his connection with James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner. Killen talks about Sam Bowers, the man who was the head of the Ku Klux Klan in 19-64. Killen also describes the night officers arrested him at his home. That's Wednesday night on News Channel 12 at 10pm.

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What's up wif all dem '?'?

T.N.B.
 
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