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...took a jury only two hours last week to convict Ku Klux Klanner Ce cil Sessum in the fire-bombing death two years ago of Storekeeper Vernon Dahmer in Hattiesburg, the first time an all-white state jury had convicted a Mississippi white man in the death of a Negro civil rights worker...
...three civil rights workers in 1964. Bowers and six co-defendants were convicted, but Buckley filed an appeal that has kept them all out of jail. Next on his agenda was the defense of Bowers -and another gang of Klansmen-in the fire-bomb murder of Vernon Dahmer, a Hattiesburg, Miss., N.A.A.C.P. official. As always, Buckley was outwardly confident...
...inability to document claims of extreme age helps establish a useful outer limit for doctors who deal with the aged-and in no way detracts from the charm of such local characters as Charlie Smith and Sylvester Magee, another former slave from Hattiesburg, Miss., who claimed to be celebrating his 126th birthday last May 29. Magee's eyes are bright and alert, his face marvelously expressive, and until four years ago he was still working in the cotton fields. His recollections of life as a slave and of his later service in the Union Army are remarkably detailed...
...conspiring to violate the civil rights of the three young civil rights workers-Andrew Goodman, 20, Michael Schwerner, 24, and James Chancy, 21, who were shot dead near Philadelphia, Miss., in 1964. In a separate indictment, the grand jury charged twelve men with conspiring to "intimidate, threaten, and coerce" Hattiesburg Farmer Vernon Dahmer, who died when his home was fire-bombed last year. One man, Sam H. Bowers Jr., 42, Imperial Wizard of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, was named in both indictments. With the exception of Bowers, none of the men could be sentenced to more...
...Indeed, FBI agents last week wound up an intense 76-day investigation in Mississippi with the arrest of 14 White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, who were indicted under Section 241 and the 1965 Voting Rights Act in connection with the Jan. 10 fire-bomb attack on the Hattiesburg home of Vernon Dahmer, 58, a Negro who had been president of the local N.A.A.C.P. in 1964. When Dahmer tried to flee his blazing house, he was forced back into the flames by a fusillade of shotgun blasts, later died of his burns. Shocked Mississippi law-enforcement authorities cooperated fully...