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...most part we thought what he said was tactless,” said Dara F. Goodman ’07, co-chair of the Radcliffe Union of Students. “We need introspection at the University and he didn’t provide that...
...slayings were especially sinister. On Sunday, June 21, Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney were headed to Meridian, Miss., in their station wagon. Outside Philadelphia, they were stopped by deputy sheriff Cecil Price, a Klansman, who put them in jail. According to testimony in the 1967 trial, Price plotted with Killen to release the three men that night, then have them tailed by Price, Killen and other Klansmen. The conspirators abducted the civil rights workers, whom Killen had allegedly ordered two Klansmen to shoot. The three bodies were buried on a nearby farm, where they were found a month and a half...
...Goodman's parents were at the White House seeking help from President Lyndon Johnson when he received a call that the car had been found. Says Goodman's mother Carolyn Goodman, 89: "I knew [Andrew] was going into a world of risk, [that] he might end up in a jail somewhere." But not murdered. "If I were alone in a room with [Killen]," she says, "I would ask him what was on his mind" that night. "Could he tell me? Would it help...
...know they got one," says Chaney's mother Fannie Chaney, 82, in New Jersey, "but they need to get 'em all." Said Billy Wayne Posey, one of those convicted in the 1967 federal trial: "This is like a nightmare." It's also a day of reckoning that mothers like Goodman and Chaney feel is long overdue. --With reporting by Alice Jackson Baughn/ Philadelphia and Deirdre van Dyk/ New York
FANNIE CHANEY, mother of civil rights worker James Chaney, when asked for her reaction to the indictment last week of Edgar Ray Killen for the 1964 Ku Klux Klan murders of her son and Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman...