A former Ku Klux Klan member was convicted in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers, two of them Jewish. Tuesday’s decision found Edgar Lee Killen guilty of three counts of manslaughter in the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner.
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