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Ex-Klansman Leaves Court on Stretcher
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| 6/16/05
Posted on 06/16/2005 9:14:52 AM PDT by TexKat
PHILADELPHIA, Miss. - One-time Klansman Edgar Ray Killen was removed from court on a stretcher Thursday on the opening day of testimony in his trial for the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers.
Killen, 80, was taken to a hospital to be treated for high blood pressure, said District Attorney Mark Duncan, who said he had no other details. Killen was sitting up on the stretcher as he was loaded into the ambulance.
Killen came to court in a wheelchair and has been attended by a nurse because of his health. He broke both his legs in a wood cutting accident several months ago and has other ailments.
Killen was not in the courtroom during the 45-minute testimony by Rita Schwerner Bender, the widow of Michael Schwerner, who was slain along with James Chaney and Andrew Goodman during the "Freedom Summer" of 1964.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: edgarraykillen; kkk; klansman; notbyrd; notyet
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Edgar Ray Killen, seated, his attorneys James McIntyre, left, and Mitch Moran, standing behind Killen, and Killen's stepson Jerry Edwards, right, in discussing defense strategy, Wednesday, June 15, 2005 for Killen's murder trial. Killen is charged with the 1964 deaths of three civil rights workers. (AP Photo/Rogelio Solis, Pool)
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posted on
06/16/2005 9:14:52 AM PDT
by
TexKat
To: Lijahsbubbe; MEG33; No Blue States; Ernest_at_the_Beach; boxerblues; mystery-ak; ChadGore; ...
Ex-Klansman Leaves Court on Stretcher ping.
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posted on
06/16/2005 9:15:47 AM PDT
by
TexKat
(Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
To: TexKat
Perhaps he's just taking a page from MJ's book? Seemed to work for Jacko...
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posted on
06/16/2005 9:16:18 AM PDT
by
LIConFem
(A fronte praecipitium, a tergo lupi.)
To: LIConFem
Killen is an unfortunate name for a murder defendant.
To: MeanWestTexan
Ha! Good point. But if he were done, wouldn't his name be Kilt????
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posted on
06/16/2005 9:21:48 AM PDT
by
petpeeve
To: MeanWestTexan
Broke both his legs in a wood cutting accident a few months ago?????
Sounds like a warning to me...
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posted on
06/16/2005 9:21:55 AM PDT
by
Sacajaweau
(God Bless Our Troops!!)
To: MeanWestTexan
He'd be much better off with a name like Jackson, Simpson, Blake, et cetera.
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posted on
06/16/2005 9:24:13 AM PDT
by
LIConFem
(A fronte praecipitium, a tergo lupi.)
To: MeanWestTexan
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posted on
06/16/2005 9:33:44 AM PDT
by
TexKat
(Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
To: TexKat
Is Senator Byrd going to be called to testify?
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posted on
06/16/2005 9:34:31 AM PDT
by
jec41
(Screaming Eagle)
To: petpeeve
Not sure.
Always heard it in West Texas as "Well, he needed a killen." (Generally in reference to a no-good, lowlife, scumbag who got himself kilt and no one knew how it happened in town with nobody seeing nothing.)
Local dialect issue, I suppose.
To: jec41
Is Senator Byrd going to be called to testify? Yes most definitely, as a character witness for Killen!!
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posted on
06/16/2005 9:36:37 AM PDT
by
TexKat
(Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
To: MeanWestTexan
Then there's the ones "not worth killen".
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posted on
06/16/2005 9:38:07 AM PDT
by
hispanarepublicana
(I was Lucy Ramirez when being Lucy Ramirez wasn't cool.)
To: MeanWestTexan
LOL!
There was once a used car dealer in my hometown whose surname was "Outlaw".
He made a lot of money, until he got sent up the river for tax evasion. :)
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posted on
06/16/2005 9:38:47 AM PDT
by
Constitution Day
(Locked. Reason: Pain in the ass.)
To: MeanWestTexan
"Well, he needed a killen." (Generally in reference to a no-good, lowlife, scumbag who got himself kilt and no one knew how it happened in town with nobody seeing nothing and all.)
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posted on
06/16/2005 9:39:39 AM PDT
by
TexKat
(Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
To: TexKat
To: MeanWestTexan
I love those commercials.
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posted on
06/16/2005 9:43:18 AM PDT
by
TexKat
(Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
To: Constitution Day
There was once a used car dealer in my hometown whose surname was "Outlaw". Can you imagine going to prison with a name like Edison? You'd be forever known as "Con Edison."
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posted on
06/16/2005 9:45:19 AM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
To: MeanWestTexan
They are killen Killen with this trial mess. Hes fixin to up and have a heartattack.
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posted on
06/16/2005 9:45:29 AM PDT
by
TexKat
(Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
To: Mr Ramsbotham
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posted on
06/16/2005 9:45:59 AM PDT
by
Constitution Day
(Locked. Reason: Pain in the ass.)
To: MeanWestTexan
I magin GWB know what we talkin bout.
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posted on
06/16/2005 9:47:24 AM PDT
by
TexKat
(Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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