Mississippi Civil Rights Workers' Murders - 1964 Events of The Mississippi Burning Case

1964 Events of The Mississippi Burning Case

Key People

Victims

  • James Chaney
  • Andrew Goodman
  • Michael Schwerner

Conspirators

  • Cecil Price
  • Lawrence Rainey
  • Alton Wayne Roberts
  • Edgar Ray Killen
  • Sam H. Bowers Jr.
  • James Jordan
  • Horace Doyle Barnette
  • Jimmy Arledge
  • Billy Wayne Posey
  • Jimmie Snowden
  • Bernard L. Akin
  • Travis M. Barnette
  • James T. Harris
  • Frank J. Herndon
  • Olen L. Burrage
  • Herman Tucker
  • Richard A. Willis
  • Edgar Ray Killen
  • Ethel Glen Barnett
  • Jerry McGrew Sharpe

Witnesses

  • James Jordan
  • Delmar Dennis
  • Rev. Charles Johnson
  • Ernest Kirkland
  • Minnie Lee Herring
  • Officer E. R. Poe
  • Sergeant Wallace Miller

FBI

  • Joseph Sullivan
  • John Proctor

Prosecutor

  • John Doar

Judge

  • William Cox

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