TRYING TIMES.

CRIMES against civil rights workers; KILLEN, Edgar Ray, 1925-2018; TRIALS (Law); KU Klux Klan (1915- ); MALE civil rights workers; CHANEY, James Earl, 1943-1964; GOODMAN, Andrew, 1943-1964; SCHWERNER, Michael Henry, 1939-1964; CIVIL rights workers; CIVIL rights movements; SOCIAL reformers; CIVIL rights; MOORE, Michael, 1954-; ATTORNEYS general; ACTIONS & defenses (Law); MURDER; CITIES & towns

PHILADELPHIA (Miss.); MISSISSIPPIReport Available

Focuses on the town of Philadelphia, Mississippi, where Edgar Ray Killen is accused of killing three civil rights workers in June 1964. How the slayings of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner marked a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement; Description of the spot where the young men were slain; Background on their deaths; How Killen had long been suspected of organizing the Klansmen who killed the threesome; Reopening of the case by former state Attorney General Michael Moore; question of whether Killen can have a fair trial; Views of Philadelphia residents.