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eo et a the Tee UT wn lay FF Hot ral 5 ek nena RM SOLE SOR DPRECT AIT ay POY GRO HPE CIEL E RY eo JIMMY LEE TOWNSEND According to JAMES E, JORDAN, at about 6:30 P.M, on June 21, 1964, PREACHER EDGAR RAY KILLEN from Philadelphia, Mississippi, came to the Longhorn Drive-In, Tom Bailey Drive, Meridian, Mississippi, along with JERRY SHARPE and JIMMY LEE TOWNSEND, also of Philadelphia, Mississippi. They were driving a 1959 Chevrolet, gray and white in color allegedly belonging to JERRY SHARPE, KILLEV had a conversation with FRANK HERNDON at the Longhorn Drive-In and then all went to B. L. AKIN's trailer, Akin's Mobile Homes, Tom Balley Drive, Meridian, Mississippi. JORDAN further stated that after their arrival at AKIN's trailer, PREACHER KILLEN said that WAYNE ROBERTS, SHARPE, TOWNSEND and himself should go in SHARPE's 1959 Chevrolet to Philadelphia to see if everything was okay. TOWNSEND went on to Philadelphia and according to JORDAN sometime shortly after the civil rights workers were released from jail at Philadelphia and the civil rights workers had started to drive south | on pighway 19 out of Philadelphia, SHARPE, BILLY SEY d Wn POSEY's 1955 or 1956 red and white Chevrolet. They drove south on Highway | 19 apparently following the civil Kk . P side of the road and POSEY said he was having earburetor trouble. px, bZD POSEY's car was left by the side of the road with JIMMY LEE TOWNSEND to work on the carburetor. The other occupants of the car, ROBERTS, SHARPE, and POSEY later got into another car and left. TOWNSEND stayed with POSEY's car 913 b MP ca acta pep A RR TER