Posted on 11/05/2006 8:53:46 PM PST by onyx
Officials say Former Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard Samuel H. Bowers died today in a state penitentiary in the Mississippi Delta.
He was serving a life sentence for the 1966 bombing death of civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer.
The 82-year-old Bowers was convicted in August of 1998 of ordering the assassination.
Dahmer, a civil rights activist had fought for black rights during Mississippi's turbulent struggle for racial equality.
Department of Corrections spokeswoman Tara Booth said in news release that Bowers died at approximately 11:30 am of cardio pulmonary arrest in the Mississippi State Penitentiary Hospital in Parchman.
Dahmer's widow, Ellie Dahmer tells The Associated Press that the death brings little closure to a wound she has nursed for decades.
She says, "He was supposed to stay there until he died. I guess he fulfilled that. He lived a lot longer than Vernon Dahmer did. It won't bring Vernon back."
Vernon Dahmer died at the age of 58 after being fire-bombed outside his home.
I wonder if thats an urban legend.I hear older black people saying it most defintely WAS true,but no one can ever fix on a time,date and place where this so called"paper bag test" occured.
Did Sen. Byrd (D - WV) send a fruit basket to the widow?
Probably delivering the eulogy.
FOTFLOL! Just in time for tomorrow's election!
LOL --- Fruit cradled in a nice white sheet...lol.
St. Louis?
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