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Description:
United States v. Cecil Price, et al.
, also known as the "
Mississippi Burning
trial'
" (after the
film of that name
), was one of the most famous criminal trials in
American
history. The
United States
charged a group of 18 men with conspiring in a
Ku Klux Klan
plot to murder three young
civil rights
workers (
Michael Schwerner
,
James Chaney
, and
Andrew Goodman
) in
Philadelphia
,
Mississippi
on June 21, 1964 (see
Mississippi civil rights workers murders
). The trial, conducted in
Meridian
, Mississippi with
U.S. District Court
Judge
W. Harold Cox
presiding, resulted in convictions of 7 of the 18 defendants.
The verdict
Guilty verdicts were returned against:
Cecil Price
, the chief deputy sheriff of
Neshoba County
Sam H. Bowers, Jr.
, of
Laurel
, the Imperial Wizard of the White Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan
Horace Doyle Barnette
, a one-time Meridian salesman
Jimmy Arledge
, a Meridian truck driver
Billy Wayne Posey
, a
Williamsville
service station operator
Jimmie Snowden
, a Meridian laundry truck driver
Alton W. Roberts
, a Meridian salesman
Not guilty verdicts were returned for:
Lawrence A. Rainey
, the
sheriff
of Neshoba County
Bernard L. Akin
, a Meridian housetrailer......
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