The slaying of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi, in 1964 was a notorious event documented in Howard Balls 2004 book Murder in Mississippi. Now Ball revisits that grisly crime to tell how, four decades later, justice finally came to Philadelphia. Originally tried in 1967, Baptist minister and Klansman Edgar Ray Killen was set free because one juror couldnt bring herself to convict a preacher. Now Ball tells how progressiveminded state officials finally reopened the case and, forty years after the fact, enabled Mississippians to reconcile with their tragic past. The second trial of 80yearold "Preacher" Killen, who was convicted by a unanimous jury, took place in June 2005, with the verdict delivered on the fortyfirst anniversary of the crime. Ball, himself a former civil rights activist, attended the trial and interviewed most of the participants, as well as local citizens and journalists covering the proceedings. Ball retraces the cycle of events that led to the resurrection of this "cold case," from the attention generated by the film Mississippi Burning to a new state attorney generals quest for closure. He reviews the strategies of the prosecution and defense and examines the evidence introduced at the trialas well as evidence that could not be presentedand also relates firsthand accounts of the proceedings, including his unnerving staring contest with Killen himself from only ten feet away. Ball explores the legal, social, political, and...

Binding: Hardcover;272 pages; Publisher: University Press of Kansas; Classification: N/A; Weight: 602.17 g; Dimensions: N/A

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