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The Mississippi Burning Trial United States vs. Price et al.): A Trial Amount
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Burrage told a roomful of KKKers discussing the arrival of the civil rights workers in 1964: "Hell, I've got a dam that will hold a hundred of them." Horace Barnette told the FBI that around midnight after the killings, Burrage was waitng at his farm to direct Klansmen to the dam site.
Burrage then went to his trucking company garage to get gasoline that was used to burn the civil rights workers' station wagon. With the death of Burrage, only one of the 18 people originally indicted remains alive. The survivor is Pete Harris, who witnesses say called the Klansman to gather on the night of the murders.
For a more detailed essay on the Mississippi Burning trial, see:
Bending Toward Justice: John Doar and the "Mississippi Burning" Trial
TRIAL HOMEPAGE
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/price&bowers/Account.html
6/18/2013


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