above: Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price, right below: Price second from left, in hat
Price pretends to not know what happened as J.E.'s body is examined.
J.E was shot three times and his body was in much worse shape than the other two
above: Andy's body was the first to be examined
Deke DeLoach, third in command at the FBI
J.E.'s family leaves for his funeral; his little brother Ben looks at the camera
Ben and his mother, Fannie Lee Chaney
David Dennis gave the eulogy
Fannie Lee Chaney speaks at the bombed out ruins of the New Zion Church; below, Bob Moses, architect of of Freedom Summer
J. Edgar Hoover with LBJ
FBI Major Case Inspector Joseph Sullivan directs the search
A confederacy of dunces. Top row: Dept Sheriff Cecil Price; Travis
Barnette; Alton Wayne Roberts; Jimmy Arledge; Jimmy Snowden Bottom row:
Jerry M. Sharpe; Billy Wayne Posey; Jimmy Lee Townsend; Horace Barnette;
James Jordan. Horace Barnette & Jordan became the government's star
witnesses. Jordan shot J.E. twice. Roberts shot all three men.
top row: Earl Akin, Jimmy Snowden, Price & Raney bottom row: Olen Burrage, B.L. Akin, Jimmy Lee Townsend, Billy Wayne Posey
More rodents. Top row: Raney; Bernard L. Akins; Other "Otha" N. Burkes; Olen Burrage; Edgar Ray Killen Bottom row: Frank J. Herndon; James T. Harris; Oliver R. Warner; Herman Tucker; Sam Bowers
FBI agents escort Sheriff Lawrence Raney to the courthouse, October 1964
Price, Raney & other defendants yuk it up at the arraignment. Herman Tucker, who operated the bulldozer that buried the three bodies, smiling upper right. Raney was always seen chewing Red Man tobacco.
Three lowlifes: Cecil Price, Alton Wayne Roberts and Lawrence Raney
Cecil Price oversees a peaceful march on the first anniversary of the murders.
Cecil Price trying to intimidate Martin Luther King on the second anniversary of the murders.
Cecil Price and cronies look down from the window as the demonstration continues.
Judge William Harold Cox (below) was known as a notoriously racist judge. He had been the college roommate of Mississippi Senator James Eastland.
above & below: Billy Wayne Posey. He drove the car that broke down, but left it in the care of Townsend and Sharpe so that he could still be at the lynching.
Jimmy Snowden drove the station wagon to the lynching spot, picked up the bodies and brought them to Olen Burrage's farm.
Olen Burrage
Three of the accused: Philadelphia, MS cops Richard A. Willis, Cecil Price and Lawrence Raney on the third day of their 1967 trial.
The Reverend Charles Johnson in a 2016 photo
Edgar Ray Killen
Alton Wayne Roberts, dishonorably discharged Marine, town bully, murderer
Alton Wayne Roberts couldn't take being filmed in the light of day
Edgar Ray Killen & Cecil Price are all smiles as they await the verdicts
He wasn't so smiley after the verdicts.
Sam Bowers would be convicted again in the 2000s for the Vernon Dahmer murder and died in prison
....so did Edgar Ray Killen
A typical disciplinary report for Edgar Ray Killen at Parchman Farm. He often lost phone, visitation and canteen privileges. He was in prison from 2005 till his death in 2018.
Freedom Summer volunteers arrive in Hattiesburg, MS, June 1964
Above images: Freedom schools in Mississipi. Below: The Freedom House in Vicksburg is bombed.
The Society Hill Missionary Baptist Church in McComb, site of Freedom School, bombed.
Meridian. George Smith with charred remains of cross that was burned outside his house.
Above & below: Freedom Summer workers with remains of burnt crosses outside offices
Holly Springs, MS: Frank Cierciorka wears piece of paper that says "Voter Registration Worker". Arrested & charged with "Carrying a placard". Spent five days in jail before being released on bail.
Rabbi Arthur Lelyveld after being beaten with a tire iron. Hattiesburg, MS
Andy's brother, David Goodman; Mickey's widow Rita; J.E.'s daughter Angela at the White House
The three civil rights workers received the Presidential Medal Of Freedom from the first black president, something virtually unimaginable in 1964.
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