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Monday, June 27, 2005

From the courthouse to the jailhouse

Ben Chaney, Brother of Civil Rights Slaying Victim

"I want to thank God that today we saw Preacher Killen in a prison uniform taken from the courthouse to the jailhouse."

-- Ben Chaney, younger brother of black Mississippian James Chaney, one of three civil rights workers who was slain in 1964. Chaney was reacting to the 60-year prison sentence given Thursday (June 23) to former Ku Klux Klansman and preacher Edgar Ray Killen for his role in the case. He was quoted by The Washington Post.

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