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. - e NO 44-2227 -mjh a At 10.03 p.m., June 21, 1964, Mr. FRANK SCHWELB, Attorney, Civil Rights Division, U. S. Department of Justice,. telephonically advised the New Orleans Office of the FBI that three Civil Rights workers all in their early twenties, MICHAEL SCHWERNER, a white male, JAMES CHANEY, a Negro male, and ANDY GOODMAN a white male, left Meridiar, Mississippi, the morning of June 21, 1964, en route to Philadelphia, Mississippi, where a Negro church had been “burned cr bombed a few weeks back.'' The group left with the intention of being back in Meridian at 4 p.m. on the afternoon of June 21, 1964, but had not returned and had not been heard from up to the time of his call. Ao 10 15 pc, Ay pesos Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), telephonically advised SA — ee Missis- sippi, that ANDY GOODWIN, MICHAEL SCHWERNER and JAMES CHANEY had left Meridian, Mississippi, via automebile early the afternoon of June 21, 1964, traveling to Philadelphia, Mississippi, with the intention of investigating a recent church burning there. They were due to return to Meridian late the afternoon of June 21, 1964, but at the time of call they had not returned and had net been heard from since leaving Meridian. He stated that the police in the towns between Meridian and Philadelphia had been contacted by COFO and no information had been developed regarding their whereabouts. £7 At 11.34 p.m., June 21, 1964, Mr. FRANK SCHWELB telephonically advised the New Orleans Office that the car in which the three above persons were traveling is a 1964 Fairlare Ford, bearing Mississippi Licerse H25503. He stated that i ‘ COFO, Jackson, had called the Lauderdale and Neshoba (Philadelphia Police Department) County Jails by 9 p.m., June 21, 1964, in an attempt to ,-- 3.8 Lfo- Ue