PHILADELPHIA, Miss., June 16 (UPI) -- An 80-year-old man on trial for the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers Thursday was taken by stretcher from a Mississippi courtroom.
Edgar Ray Killen, a former Ku Klux Klansman accused of masterminding the killings that later became the basis of the movie, "Mississippi Burning," complained of not feeling well.
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Defense attorney Mitch Moran said his client's blood pressure is a concern, CNN reported.
The trial in Philadelphia, Miss., opened Wednesday and Judge Marcus Gordon ruled testimony from Killen's 1967 federal civil rights trial could be used in the murder case. The 1967 trial ended in a hung jury.
