1964 Killings

Justice is finally served.

Forty-one years to the day after three civil rights workers were beaten and shot to death, an 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klansman was found guilty of manslaughter Tuesday in a trial that marked Mississippi's latest attempt to atone for its bloodstained, racist past.

In other news, Senator Robert Byrd has a new book.

The 770-page book is the latest in a long series of attempts by the 87-year-old Democratic patriarch to try to explain that event early in his life. In it, Byrd says he viewed the Klan as a useful platform from which to launch his political career. He described it essentially as a fraternal group of elites - doctors, lawyers, clergy, judges and other "upstanding people" who at no time engaged in or preached violence against blacks, Jews or Catholics who historically were targets of the Klan."

Timing is everything.

Posted by AlexC at June 21, 2005 7:16 PM