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The reputed Ku Klux Klansman charged in connection with the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers was freed Wednesday on $250,000 bail.
Circuit Judge Marcus Gordon set a March 28 trial date for Edgar Ray Killen, 79, arrested in one of the most notorious crimes of the civil rights era.
The part-time preacher was arrested last week, the first person to be charged with murder by the state of Mississippi in the killings that focused national attention on the civil rights struggle in the South.
Nineteen men, including Killen, were indicted on federal civil rights charges in the 1960s. Killen’s case ended in a hung jury; seven others were convicted in 1967.
