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On This Day: Anne Frank captured by Gestapo
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On Aug. 4, 1944, acting on a tip from a Dutch informer, the Nazi Gestapo captured 15-year-old Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family.
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On Aug. 4, 1944, acting on a tip from a Dutch informer, the Nazi Gestapo captured 15-year-old Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family.
Edgar Ray Killen, Klansman in 'Mississippi Burning' slayings, dies in prison at 92
U.S. News // 7 years ago
Edgar Ray Killen, Klansman in 'Mississippi Burning' slayings, dies in prison at 92
Edgar Ray Killen, convicted in the 1964 deaths of three civil rights workers in Mississippi, has died in prison, the brother of a victim said.
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No release for man guilty of 1964 killings
A Mississippi judge Friday refused to release Edgar Ray Killen while he appeals his conviction for organizing the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers.
Odd News // 1 decade ago
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No release for man guilty of 1964 killings Jul 14, 2006

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Edgar Ray "Preacher" Killen (born January 17, 1925) is a former Ku Klux Klan organizer who conspired in the murders of three civil rights activists—James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner—in 1964.

He was found guilty of three counts of manslaughter on June 21, 2005, the forty-first anniversary of the crime. He appealed the verdict, but his sentence of three times 20 years in prison was upheld on January 12, 2007, by the Mississippi Supreme Court.

Killen was a sawmill operator and part-time Baptist minister. He was also a kleagle, or klavern recruiter and organizer, for the Neshoba and Lauderdale County chapters of the Ku Klux Klan.

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