Neshoba Slayings: Mississippi’s Past On Trial - KKK wizard greets Killen as trial unfolds in slayings
Jury selection resumes at the courthouse in the case against Killen, the sawmill operator and part-time preacher who’s pleaded innocent to three counts of murder in the June 21, 1964, Klan killings of James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman. Killen was greeted by J.J. Harper of Cordele, Ga., imperial wizard of the American White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
