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Omaha Steve

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Sat Jun 21, 2025, 11:15 PM Jun 21

Today in History 1964 Three civil rights workers murdered in Mississippi


https://apnews.com/today-in-history/june-21

In 1964, civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi; their bodies were found buried in an earthen dam six weeks later. (Forty-one years later, on this date in 2005, Edgar Ray Killen, an 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klansman, was found guilty of manslaughter in their deaths; he was sentenced to 60 years in prison, where he died in January 2018.)
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Today in History 1964 Three civil rights workers murdered in Mississippi (Original Post) Omaha Steve Jun 21 OP
;-( elleng Jun 21 #1
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I just watched Robert Reich Coffee Klatch earlier today Inkey Jun 21 #3

Inkey

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3. I just watched Robert Reich Coffee Klatch earlier today
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 11:26 PM
Jun 21

He mentioned That Michael Schwerner was a good friend of his.

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