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...Meridian COFO office, for example, called the FBI at 9 p.m. on June 21, notifying them that the trio of workers was missing. Had the FBI acted then, with a routine visit or phone call to local jails, Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman might be alive today...

Author: By Peter Cummings, | Title: The Mississippi Summer Project: Holly Springs Participant Reports Nervous Beginnings, Eerie Tension | 9/22/1964 | See Source »

...Before going to the polls in November, I hope the names of three great Americans will be remembered: Schwerner, Chancy and Goodman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 28, 1964 | 8/28/1964 | See Source »

...hearing will begin at 10:30 a.m., and King is expected to be free in time for the service, according to William Crout, assistant in the Memorial Church Mrs. Rita Schwerner, the wife of one of the three workers, will be accompanying King, and may also attend the service, Crout said...

Author: By Harrison Young, | Title: King May Speak Here At Memorial Services | 8/11/1964 | See Source »

...outraged and disgusted that members of our U.S. Navy are used for the purpose of trying to locate three no-good rabblerousers in the South. Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman went to Mississippi looking for trouble, and if they got it, they deserved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 17, 1964 | 7/17/1964 | See Source »

There was a flurry of excitement when the mutilated body of a young white man was found at Oakland, Miss., about 100 miles from the search area. At first it appeared that it might be the body of Michael Schwerner, one of the missing trio. It was later identified as that of a carnival worker run over in a highway accident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Search | 7/10/1964 | See Source »

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