Edgar Ray Killen

Edgar Ray Killen, a white ordained Baptist minister known as "The Preacher," was arrested Jan. 6 and appeared in court in Philadelphia, Mississippi, the next day.

Killen is the first person to be charged with the June 21, 1964, murders of James Chaney, a 21-year-old black man from Mississippi, and Andrew Goodman, 20, and Michael Schwerner, 24, both white men from New York.

All had gone to Neshoba County, Mississippi, to teach blacks about voting rights.

The three were detained by a deputy sheriff, Cecil Price, and after being released in the middle of the night were caught again by Klu Klux Klan members who Price had tipped off.

The Japan Times Weekly: Jan. 15, 2005
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