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Killen seen walking on his own without wheelchair

September 03, 2005
  • Clarion-Ledger
Jerry Mitchell

After being released on a $600,000 bond pending his appeal on his manslaughter conviction in the 1964 deaths of three civil rights workers, Edgar Ray Killen was seen walking without his wheelchair. The Klansman testified from his wheelchair at his appeal bond hearing about the pain he was enduring in prison because of his injuries from a March tree-cutting accident in which both his legs were broken.

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