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December 4, 2007

Coalition members call for charges

The Clarion-Ledger, 12/4/7 Members of the multiracial Philadelphia Coalition say potential new evidence against a reputed Klansman shows the case involving the 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers should be reinvestigated and reprosecuted. “By all means,” said Leroy Clemons, president of the coalition that successfully pushed for the prosecution of Klansman Edgar Ray Killen,…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
December 4, 2007

Mississippi politics jolted by strange convergence of events

The Leader Call Editorial, 12/3/7 Political conspiracy theorists are enjoying banner times in Mississippi. First came Republican Trent Lott’s announcement early last week that he’s leaving the U.S. Senate by year’s end. Two days after Lott’s announcement, the senator’s brother-in-law, multimillionaire trial lawyer Richard “Dickie” Scruggs was indicted in north Mississippi — along with four…