Word: neshoba
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...three had had time for just one night's sleep in Meridian when they decided to drive over to Longdale to inspect the ruins of a Negro church that had been burned down by segregationists. Returning to Meridian, they were picked up outside Philadelphia by Neshoba County Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price for speeding. Price said later he had held them until 10:30 that steamy, moonlit night, then turned them loose...
...sailors took up a painstaking ten-county search, many Mississippians preferred to believe that their disappearance was all a hoax. "They could be in Cuba," said Governor Paul Johnson airily. "They're just hiding and trying to cause a lot of bad publicity," pshawed Neshoba Sheriff L. A. Rainey...
...faced state murder charges. And most, including Killen, beat federal civil rights--violation charges in a 1967 trial in which one member of the all-white jury insisted she could never convict a man of God like the Preacher. One of the men who was convicted, Sam Bowers-- the Neshoba County Klan's Imperial Wizard--later said in a prison interview that he was "quite delighted to have the main instigator of the entire affair," meaning Killen, "walk out of the courtroom a free...
...Neshoba County sheriff Larry Myers said last week that there would eventually be more arrests. "It's satisfying to 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