Edgar Ray Killen called himself a Baptist minister, but he worshipped in the church of the Ku Klux Klan. So when Killen, a native of Philadelphia, Miss., became his local Klan’s Kleagle (a top commander) in the 1960s, he finally felt ordained with genuine power–and he allegedly used it to recruit and organize more than a dozen Klansmen in the 1964 murder of three civil rights workers.
This is long overdue. It’s amazing to me that only 70% of a local television poll showed support for his arrest. Unbelievable.
Aaron Fulkerson 