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...morning, some 60 other FBI men had fanned out through the area. In quick, efficient visits to piney woods, farms, back-road gas stations and roadside house trailers, they collected a motley crew of 19 more men?including a Freewill Baptist preacher, a tavern bouncer, a 71-year-old Philadelphia cop, and a 17-year-old high school dropout. The 19 were charged, too, in connection with the killings. Whatever the outcome, the trial will certainly become one of the most celebrated in years?if only because the murder of the three young civil rights workers had been so shameless...
Marked for Death. On June 21, a scorching, oppressive day, Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman had driven a blue station wagon through Neshoba County to investigate a burned-out Negro church near Philadelphia. All worked with the Council of Federated Organizations in Meridian, Miss., setting up voter-registration projects. Chaney, a Negro, was a native of Meridian. Goodman, a New Yorker, had begun work only that day. Schwerner, a bearded youth from New York, had been a COFO worker in Philadelphia for six months. Because of his civil rights aggressiveness and because he was Jewish, he had been marked for death...
After visiting the church, the three workers were stopped by Cecil Price, who claimed that they were speeding near Philadelphia. He jailed them until long after dark, then released them. They disappeared. Price insisted that he followed them to the edge of town, saw them drive away...
...days later, their burned-out station wagon was found. On Aug. 4, FBI men, acting on a tip, dug a single hole in a new earthen dam on Old Jolly Farm six miles from Philadelphia and uncovered the three bodies. Each man had been shot to death with a .38-caliber weapon; Chaney had been beaten so horribly that a pathologist who performed an autopsy said he had never seen such injuries except in a highspeed auto accident or a plane crash...
...Plan & the Purpose." The FBI beefed up its Mississippi forces to 153 men?ten times the normal complement. The contingent was headed by able Roy K. Moore, 50, a native of Oregon and a 26-year FBI veteran. Around Philadelphia agents met almost as much hostility as the civil rights workers had?one found several snakes in his car one morning. But the FBI built its case persistently. Agents infiltrated the White Knights of the Klan and paid out several thousand dollars for information...