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Mississippi Burning MIBURN Case — Part 4
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pwr square and ‘Preacher! Killen got out and said that
_ he had been by the Jail and that the civil rights
workers were still in jail, ‘Preacher’ Killen got
into the car and said that he would show the group
where they could go so they could park and watch for
evkers when they were released from jail,
Preacher” Killen too
em the jail
Gn s2O%eC them where they
could park and see the civil rights workers if they
left town by proceeding north. § —_
on nnennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnne Preacher! Killen said that when
he got word which way the civil rights workers were
going out of town, the grcup was te go out or the road
and the Mississippi Bighway Safety Fatrol would stop
them. The groap dropped Killer. off at the fursral
heme located about two blocks from the Neshcha County
Courthouse and went and parked at the abcve-rentioned
location. They did not wait lorg until a policeman,
white male, elderly and heavy set, drove up and said
that the civil rights workers were leaving on
Highway 19. The group left their patking place and
headed south on Highway 19 out of Philadelphia. When
they were on the outskires of towr, Sharp, Billy Posey,
Wayne Reberts and the young mar believed to be Townsend
drove up alongside the group in a 1955 cr 1956 red and
white Chevrolet and said to folicw ther, |
“Eroup followed them
patrol car proceeded out of Philadelphia a short distance
and pulled off to the left in frome of a Stardard Service
Station where it stopped, ; el
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