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...convicted for the murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi in 1955, but Huie paid enough to get a complete account of the crime for Look magazine. Three years ago, Huie disclosed the facts in the case of the murder of the three civil rights workers in Neshoba County, Miss. After a few midnight meetings with greedy Ku Klux Klan informers, he reconstructed the event for the New York Herald Tribune...
CRIMINAL JUSTICE End for a Klan Klawyer Whenever Ku Klux Klansmen needed legal aid in Mississippi, they invariably turned to Lawyer Travis Buckley. A cocky, stocky, pugnacious little man with jug ears, Buckley, 35, was chief defense attorney in last October's trial of Imperial Wizard Sam Bowers, Neshoba County Sheriff Lawrence Rainey, and the 17 others accused of conspiring to kill 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...
...guilty of a conspiracy that began when Meridian's White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan voted to "eliminate" Schwerner for running a Negro community center and culminated when the lynch mob bulldozed three bullet-stitched corpses into an earthen dam. One of the men convicted was Neshoba County Chief Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price, 29, who set up the killings by arresting the young activist for speeding; another was Samuel H. Bowers Jr., 42, the White Knights' Imperial Wizard. They face maximum sentences of ten years in prison and a $5,000 fine...
Eight accused conspirators were acquitted-one of them at the Government's request. Among those who went free was Neshoba's Sheriff Lawrence A. Rainey, although Assistant U.S. Attorney General John Doar charged that Klansman Rainey's inaction at the time of the murders clearly implicated him. The jury, which was hopelessly deadlocked much of the time and had to come back for a "supercharge" by Cox, could not agree on the guilt of three others. In their cases, the judge declared a mistrial, and although two of the trio freed on bond-Fundamentalist Minister Edgar...
Jordan and seven others, he said, armed themselves and drove to Phil adelphia. There they parked by the courthouse where Ethel Glen ("Hop") Barnett, 45, current Democratic nominee for sheriff of Neshoba County and one of the defendants, told them to wait. Two uniformed men in a city police car informed them that the prospective victims had been released. Later they were told by men in a highway patrol car that the victims would be stopped somewhere down the highway by Deputy Sheriff Price, who, along with Neshoba Sheriff Lawrence Rainey, is now on trial...