Preacher Arrested for Civil Rights Murders

After four decades, an arrest has been made for the 1964 murders of three Civil Rights workers in Mississippi during Freedom Summer. On June 21, 1964, three young men (Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman) were investigating a burned church in Meridian when they were attacked by a large group of KKK and killed. Their bodies, buried in an earthen dam, weren't found for over a month. Though several Klansmen were arrested, only seven received sentences, with only two being sentenced to the maximum of ten years. After 40 years, Edgar Ray Killen, the man considered to be the leader and organizer of the attack, has finally been arrested.