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  • Ex-Klansman Leaves Court on Stretcher

    06/16/2005 9:14:52 AM PDT · by TexKat · 31 replies · 893+ views
    AP ^ | 6/16/05
    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...