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...Fannie Lee Chaney moved out of the state to escape death threats. The murders of Chaney and two fellow civil rights workers inspired the movie Mississippi Burning --but led to no state murder indictments until 2005, when Fannie Lee's testimony helped convict and imprison Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen. Following a funeral service at the chapel that memorialized her son, Fannie Lee was buried next to James' grave in Meridian, Miss. She was 84. Since 1964, when Alvin--the deep-diving submarine that engineer Harold Froehlich designed--was launched, the vessel, the world's oldest research sub, has become...
DIED. Buddy Killen, 73, powerful Nashville music publisher and songwriter who launched the careers of Dolly Parton and Whisperin' Bill Anderson and turned Tree International, the company he ran with Grand Ole Opry manager Jack Stapp, into a music-publishing titan; of liver and pancreatic cancer; in Nashville. Killen's songs became hits for performers like Conway Twitty (I May Never Get to Heaven) and the Little Dippers (Forever). In 1989, in a deal that marked a new high for country music, he sold Tree International to CBS for more than $30 million...
...Totals 17-56 18-23 55. SMU (6-4) Pearson 6-9 2-2 15, Willingham 2-5 0-0 6, B.Hopkins 4-11 2-2 13, Roberts 5-10 0-0 10, Rackauskas 3-4 2-2 8, Morris 5-9 0-0 10, Killen 1-1 1-3 3, Fall 0-0 3-4 3, R.Hopkins 0-0 0-0 0, Epps 3-6 1-1 8. Totals 29-55 11-14 76. Halftime -- Southern Methodist 50-21. 3-Point Goals -- Harvard 3-18 (Goffredo 2-8, Yada 1-5, Martin 0-1, Unger 0-1, Stehle...
CONVICTED. EDGAR RAY KILLEN, 80, former Ku Klux Klansman accused of orchestrating the 1964 murders of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner in Mississippi, of manslaughter; on the 41st anniversary of the crime that helped speed passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act; in Philadelphia, Miss. The first person to face murder charges in the case--a jury deadlocked over his conviction on civil rights violations in a 1967 federal trial--Killen was sentenced to the maximum of 60 years in prison...
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...