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Jury which convened 1-11-65 atJackson, Mississippi, to hear testimony concerning theabduction and murder on 6=2l-64 of JAMES EARL CHANEY,MICHAEL HENRY SCHWERNER and ANDREW GOODMAN, three civilrights workers, in Neshoba County, Mississippi, returnedIrne Bill 1-15-65 charging BERNARD L, AKIN, JIM! MMH!ARLEDGE, HORACE DOYLE BARNEITE, TRAVIS MARYN BARNETTE, OLENIDVELL BURRAGE, JAMES T. HARRIS, FRANK J. HERNDON, JAMES E.JORDAN, EDGAR RAY KILLEN, BILLY, WAYNE POSEY, CECIL RAY PRICE,LAQREECE ANDREH&#39;RAIEEY, ALTOH QAYNE RQBERTS, JERRY MC CREESHARPE, JIMMY SNDWDEN, JIMY LEE_TOWNSEND, HERMAN TUCKERand RICHARD ANDREW WILLIS with violations of Title 18,U.S. Code, Section 241, with Conspiracy under Section 371,

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Arrest warrants were issued by U. S. District Court,Clerk and all Subjects, with exception of HORACE DOYLE BARNETTEand JAMES EDWARD JORDAN, were arrested by U. S. Marshals on1-16-65 and arraigned before U. S. Commissioner ESTHER CARTER1-16 65, who released them under $5,750 bond. HORACE DOYLEBAFKEITE was arrested by Bureau Agents, Shreveport, La., 1-18-65,arraigned before U. S. Commissioner, Shreveport, La., andreleased on $5,000 bond the same date.

IAMES EDWARD JORDAN voluntarily appeared, in responseto a Bench Warrant issued 1-15-65 in the Southern Distriét ofMiss., at Atlanta, Ga., 1-18-65, arraigned before U. S. Com-missioner, Atlanta, Ga., and released under $5,000 bond.

On 1-24-65, U. S. District Judge HAROLD COX, SouthernDistrict of Miss., signed an order authorizing the Clerk of the -U. S. District Court for Southern District of Miss. to transfercause of JAMS EDWARD JORDAN from Southern District of Miss. tothe Northern District of Ga. for plea of guilty or nolo contender

On 2-24-65, U. S. District Judge COX sustained Defen-dants� motions to dismiss indictments charging Defendants withviolation of Title 18, U. S. Code, Section 241.

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all Defendants and ruled that the second, third, and fourthcounts of the indictment were valid against LAWRENCE RAINEY,CECIL PRICE, and RICHARD ANDREW WILLIS, but not against theother Defendants. &#39;

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Transcript of indictment returned byFederal Grand Jury January 15, 1965,charging violation of Title 18, U. S.Code, Sections 241 and 242

Arrest of Defendants named in Indictment

Motions filed before U. S. District

Judge HAROLD J. COX

Pretrial hearings, January 25 through 27,1965, at Meridian, Mississippi

Arraignment of Defendants before U. S.District Judge HAROLD COX, at Meridian

Order to Transfer the Cause as to

JAMES EDWARD JORDAN from Southern

District of Mississippi to NorthernDistrict of Georgia

Opinion of Judge COX sustaining Defen-dants� motions to dismiss indictment

charging Defendants with violation ofTitle 18, U. S. Code, Section 241

Opinion of U. S. District Judge HAROLDCOX sustaining in part and overrulingin part Defendants� motions to dismissindictments in violation of Title 18,U. S. Code, Section 242

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MURDERED

A. Investigation conducted in vicinity ofWarner&#39;s Grocery Store on Grand Avenue,

Meridian, Mississippi

B. Investigation conducted in area ofNeshoba County Court House in Phila-

delphia, Mississippi

C. Interviews with persons neighboring inarea where SCHWERNER, GOODMAN and CHANEYwere abducted and murdered

D. Aerial photographs of locationsdepicting the area where the abduction,murder and burial of SCHWERNER,

GOODMAN and CHANEY occurred

APPENDIX

A. Characterization of the White Knights ofthe Ku Klui Klan of Mississippi

INDEX

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On January 1, 1965, the Federal Grand Jury convenedat Jackson, Mississippi, to hear testimony concerning tneabduction and murder on June 21, 1964 in Neshoba County,Mississippi, of three civil rights workers, JAMES EARL CHANEYMICHAEL HENRY SCHWERNER and ANDREW GOODAN

On January 15, 1965, a true bill was returned bythe Federal Grand Jury charging the following persons withviolations of Title 18, United States Code, 241 2&2 and 371

CECIL RAY PRICE

BERNARD L. AKIN

JIMMY ARLEDGE

HORACE DOYLE BARNETTE

TRAVIS MARYN BARNETTE

OLEN IDVELL BURRAGE

JAMES T. HARRIS

FRANK J. HERNDON

JAMES E. JORDAN

EDGAR RAY KILLEN

BILLY WAYNE POSEY

LAWRENCE ANDREW RAINEY

ALTON WAYNE ROBERTS

JERRY MC GREW SHARPE

JIMMY SNOWDEN

JIMMY LEE TURN

HERMAN TUCKER

RICHARD ANDREW WILLIS

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LAWRENCE ANDREW RAINEY

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JIMMY SNOWDEN

JIMMY LEE TOWNSEND

HERMAN TUCKER

RICHARD ANDREW WILLIE

"THE GRAND JURY CHARGES AND PRESENTS:

"1. At all times herein mentioned Lawrence

Andrew Rainey was sheriff of Neshoba County,Mississippi; Cecil Ray Price was deputy sheriff ofNeshoba County, Mississippi; Richard Andrew Williswas a patrolman of the Police Department of Philadelphia,Mississippi; and each was acting by virtue of hisofficial position and under color of the laws of theState of Mississippi. &#39;

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Cecil Ray Price, Jimmy Arledge, Horace DoyleBarnette, Travis Maryn Barnette, Alton Wayne RobertJimmy Snowden, James E. Jordan, Billy Wayne Posey,Jerry McGrew Sharpe and Jimmy Lee Townsend couldand would intercept Michael Henry Schwerner, JamesEarl Chaney and Andrew Goodman upon their leavingthe area of the Neshoba County Jail, and threaten,assault, shoot and kill them.

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"UNITED STATES OF AMERICA :

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CECIL RAY PRICE : CRIMINAL NO. 5216BERNARD L. AKIN

JIMY ARLEDGE . :

HORACE DOYLE BARNETTE

TRAVIS MARYN BARNETTE

OLEN LOVELL BURRAGE

JAMES T. HARRIS

FRANK J. HERNDON

JAMES E. JORDAN

EDGAR RAY KILLEN

BILLY WAYNE POSEY

LAWRENCE ANDREW RAINEY

ALTON WAYNE ROBERTS

JIMY MC GREW SHARPE

JIMMY SNOWDEN

JIMY LEE TOWNSEND

HERMAN TUCKER

RICHARD ANDREW WILLIS

1B_U.S.C. Z42, 371

"THE GRAND JURY CHARGES AND PRESENTS:

FIRST COUNT

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Jordan, Edgar Ray Killen, Billy Wayne Posey, LawrenceAndrew Rainey, Alton Wayne Roberts, Jerry McGrewSharpe, Jimmy Snowden, Jimmy Lee Townsend, HermanTucker, and Richard Andrew Willis, within the

Southern District of Mississippi, conspired together,with each other, and with other persons to the GrandJury unknown, to commit an offense against the UnitedStates in violation of Section 242 of Title 18 of

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sumarily punished without due process of law bypersons acting under color of the laws of the Stateof Mississippi.

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MichaelGoodmanPhilade

On June 21, 1964, Cecil Ray Price detainedHenry Schwerner, James Earl Chaney and Andrewin the Neshoba County Jail located in

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SECOND COUNT

"On or about June 21, 1964, in Neshoba County,Mississippi, and within the Southern District of�ississippi, Lawrence Andrew Rainey, sheriff ofNeshoba County, Mississippi, Cecil Ray Price, deputysheriff of Neshoba County, Mississippi, Richard AndrewWillis, a patrolman of the Police Department ofPhiladelphia, Mississippi, Bernard L. Akin, JimmyArledge, Horace Doyle Barnette, Travis Haryn Barnette,Olen Lovell Burrage, James T. Harris, Frank J. Herndon,James E. Jordan, Edgar Ray Killen, Billy Wayne Posey,Alton Wayne Roberts, Jerry Hc�rew Sharpe, Jimmy Snowden,Jimy Lee Townsend and Herman Tucker, while actingunder color of the laws of the State of Mississippi,did wilfully assault, shoot and kill Michael HenrySchwerner, an inhabitant of the State of Mississippi,then and there in the custody of Cecil Ray Price,for the purpose and with the intent of punishingMichael Henry Schwerner summarily and without dueprocess of law and for the purpose and with theintent of punishing Michael Henry Schwerner forconduct not so punishable under the laws of

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1 � On January 15, 1965, warrants for the arrest ofERYARD L. AKIN, JIMMY ARLEDGE, HORACE DOYLE BARNETTE, &#39;

TRAVIS MARYN BARNETTE, OLEN LOVELL BURRAGE, JAMES T. HARRIS,FRANK J. HERNDON, JAMES E. JORDAN, EDGAR RAY KILLEN, BILEYWAYNE POSEY, CECIL RAY PRICE, LAWRENCE ANDREW RAIKEY, ALTON�hf.-&#39;-.�."2~TE ROBERTS, JERRY MC GREI-I SHARPE, JIM-FY SDTOWDEN, JIJMY LEETCEESEID, HERHAN TUCKER and RICHARD AKDREH WILLIS were issuedby Clerk of the United States District Court, Jackson,Mississippi. All of the above-mentioned defendants, withthe exception of HORACE DOYLE BARNETTE and JAMES EDWARD-JSR3i§, were arrested an January 16, 1965, by Deputy �United States Marshals and arraigned before United StatesCorxitsioner ESTHER CARTER at Meridian, Mississippi, whoreleased than on $5,753 bond. _

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The following motions were filed by attorneys forthe Defendants in the murder of the three civil rights workers,SCHWERNER, CHANEY and GOODMAN, before United States District

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l. Motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction,as indictment does not allege a crimecognizable by the Laws of the United States.

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3. Motions for severance.

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_§.P_§_§.e§-P.i.sJ;£.i.9.§.....1udge HAROLD Sgslili. SQ9.thsr.n._Q}.5£=.=.i.9J=,-92Mississippi, on January 25 tp_2 1965, at Meridian, Mississippi,

Mbepertmental Attorney ROBERT _WEN�advised that the following�motions were heard and arguex D C� A|..--Ill-""""

1. Motion for severance.

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-. A motion for severance for Horace Doy1e_Barnette was granted by U. S. DistrictJudge HAROLD J. OOX.

2. Motion to suppress search warrants.

. In connection with this motion, testimonywas presented by Special Agents of theFBI HENRY L. MC CONNELL and JOHN H. KRESEK,who testified concerning their service ofa search warrant August 4, 1964, on OLENBURRAGE, who is the owner of Barrage Dam.

. Special Agent of the FBI JAY COCHRAN, JR.testified regarding entries by Bureau Agentsand excavating equipment on BURRAGE�s prop-erty August 4, 1964, to effect the exhumationof the bodies of the three civil rights workers,SCHWERNER, CHANEY and GOODMAN, who were buriedin BURRAGE�s dam. In connection with thismotion, Defendants� attorneys directed specificquestions to COCHRAN concerning reconnoiteringconducted by Agents on BURRAGE&#39;s property priorto August Q, 196A, which was the date of serv-ing the search warrant on BURRAGE. -

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On JanuaryE&, 1965, seventeen �7! Defendants,BERNARD L. AKIN; JIMM3 NMN! ARLEDGE; HORACE DOYLE BARNETTE;TRAVIS MARYN BARNETTE; OLEN LOVELL BURRAGE;_JAMES T. HARRIS;

FRANK J. HERNDON; EDGAR RAY KILLEN; BILLY WAYNE POSEY; CECILRAY PRICE; LAWRENCE ANDREW RAINEY; ALTON WAYNE ROBERTS;JERRY MC CREW SHARYE; JIMMY SNOWDEN; JIMMY LEE TOWNSEND;

HERMAN TUCKER; and RICHARD ANDREW WILLIS, appeared beforeU. S. District I;dge HAROLD J. COX for a hearing, at whichtime the Defcndants entered pleas of not guilty.

Judge COX ruled the Defendants conld remain free onbonds of $5,750 each. COX stated he wouli set the date forDefendants� trial after ruling on the motions presented tohim by the defense attorneys.

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to JAMES E. JORDAN from the Southern District of Mississippito the Nrrthern District of Georgia, for plea of guilty ornolo contenders is set forth as follows:

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT _SOUIBSRN DISIRICT OF MISSISSIPPI

EASTERN DIVISION

UEITED STATES OF AMERICA

VS. CRIMINAL NU. 5215

CECIL RAY 2112:,JAMES E. JCRDAN, ET AL

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This day this cause came on for hearing on requestof the defendant, James E. Jordan, for a waiver of trialand for transfer of the said cause as to James E. Jordan

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On February 24, 1965, U. S. District Judge HAROLD OOX,Southern District of Mississippi, Jackson, sustained Defendants�notions to dismiss indictments charging Defendants with violationof Section 241, Title 18, U. S. Code. &#39;

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EASTERN DIVISION

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"UNITED starts 01-� AMERICA PLAINTIFF

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_ALTON WAYNE ROBERTS, JERRY MCGREW SHARPE,JIMMY SNOWDEN, JIMMY LEE TOWNSEND, HERMANTUCKER, RICHARD ANDREW WILLIS DEFENDANTS

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ment for failure to state an offense against the laws ofthe United States. The indictment is predicated upon 18U.S.C.A. S241. The first paragraph of the indictment statesthat Rainey was sheriff, Price was deputy sheriff and thatWillis was a police officer, each acting at all times under""color of laws" of the State of Mississippi. The statutementions nothing about "color of law� in the description ofthe crime embraced therein. The indictment charges thatfrom January 1, 1964, to December 4, 1964, the named.de£endants in the Southern District of Mississippi conspired

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"not to be deprived of life or liberty without due processof law by persons acting under color of the laws ofMississippi.� The third paragraph of the indictmentstates that it was the plan and purpose of such conspiracythat said victims would be released by said officials fromthe county jail and that the individual defendants wouldintercept said released prisoners �and threaten, assault,shoot and kill them.� This entire offense is said to have

been committed in Neshoba County, State of Mississippi,in violation of said S241.

�This statute was designed and intended solelyfor the protection of federally created rights, not forany right merely guaranteed by the laws of the UnitedStates. This is not a statute which makes murder a

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case. The right of every person not to be deprived of hislife or liberty without due process of law is a right thatexisted prior to the Federal Constitution. It is a rightwhich is protected by state laws and is merely guaranteedby the Constitution of the United States.

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F.2d 644, where the Court reversed a conviztion under avery similar indictment in this circuit. That opinionmakes abundantly clear the infirmities which areinherent in the indictment here. That decision was

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"The Congress has known of that decision nowfor approximately fifteen years and has acquiescedtherein as a proper construction of S241.

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charged with the violation of any right which was con-ferred upon either of these victims by a federal law.It is of no consequence, therefore, in law that some of-the defendants were officials and that some of them were

merely private citizens in allegedly committing theoffense charged. The motion, like a demurer of old,admits for the purpose of this hearing all matters andthings well pled in the indictment, but contends thateven so, they are not charged with an offense againstthe United States. The authorities cited and found

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"There are several other motions presented bythese defendants pursuant to a previous order of thisGonrt, but action on such motions is unnecessary byreason of the disposition of the foregoing motions.Such other motions,therefore, may be withdrawn or willbe overruled. A judgment accordingly may be presented.

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On February 25, 1965, U. S. District Judge HAROLD COX,Southern District of Mississippi, Jackson, sustained_in partand overruled in part Defendants� motions to dismiss indictmentsin violation of Section 242. Judge COX� opinion is set forthas follows, along with his rulings regarding other motionspresented by Defendants� attorneys:

"UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI

EASTERN DIVISION

"CRIMINAL NUMBER 5216

"UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PLAINTIFF

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CECIL RAY PRICE, ET AL DEFENDANTS

"On January 18, 1965, the defendants wereordered to file all motions to be filed herein on orbefore January 25, 1965. Those motions have been filedand presented and will be presently decided.

"1. The defendants move for sixty daysadditional time to prepare and file motions and sup-porting affidavits. That motion is without merit andwill be overruled.

"2. The defendants move to dismiss the

indictment because of widespread adverse publicity andbecause they were photographed and pictured through thenews media of the country as criminals. There was, 92indeed a great amount of sensational writing and numer-ous pictures of these defendants whichmappeared in manyof the newspapers within the state and on television .stations within the state and in other states. This

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appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States whereit was affirmed. The Supreme Court on appeal in Williams_3L_:§i§ed States, 3&1 US 97; 71 S.Ct. 576, observed thatthe indictment charged that petitioner acting under colorof law used force to make each victim confess to his guiltand implicate others and that the victims were denied theright to bi t*ied by due process of law and if foundguilty to be sentenced and punished in accordance withthe laws of that state. The Court quoted from Count 2cf the indictment which charged violation of the Four-teenth Amendment rights as follows: �The right andprivilege not to be deprived of liberty without dueprocess of law, the right and privilege to be securein his person while in the custody of the State of &#39;Florida, the right and privilege not to be subjected topunishment without due process of law, the right andprivilege to be immune while in the custody of personsacting under color of the laws of the State of Florida,

from illegal assault and battery by any person exer-cising the authority of said state, and the right andprivilege to be tried by due process of law and if foundguilty to be sentenced and punished in accordance withthe laws of the State of Florida.� The trial judge ad-monished the jury that the defendants were �not here ontrial for a violation of any law of the State of Floridafor assault� nor �for assault under any laws of theUnited States.� The Supreme Court thus affirmed saidconviction and approved such application and use of S242to those facts and circumstances. It is thus made crystalclear that the defendants in this case who were officers

and were allegedly acting willfully under color of lawas charged in the indictment are vulnerable to the offensecharged in S242. To same effect is United States v. -

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In_§§own v. United_States& �CA! 204 F.2d 247,convicted of violating l8 U.S,C. S371. Thewas charged with violation of S242 but such

charges against him were dismissed by the Court becausehe was a private individual and not an officer actingtrdcr crlo: of law as in Qgwmgpmealgh of VilgipiamyiRives, 100 [S 313; §nitediStates v. Cruikshanks, W92 US 542; Screws g. Knited States, 325 US 110, 65 S.Ct.1039. The Court said: 4

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in part and overruled in part as indicated.

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"of the description in the affidavit and warrant is voidbut the description of the premises known as the "Gld JollyFarm� under control of Olen Burrage in the north half ofNeshoba County in the Southern District of Mississippi issufficient for all purposes. The objects of the searchmere sufficiently stated. The affidavit of an FBI agentsufficiently set forth grounds for probable cause whichwere effectually adjudicated to exist by the issuance ofthe subsequent warrant. gester v. United States, 265u.s. 5?; as s ~ 445. lhoaneeee v. United States, SCA!$99 7.11 SQ7. IL» sea1-h narrate desdiibed the premisesto be searched as the �Old Jolly Farm� under control ofP?~r Barrage. This place consisted of two hundred fiftyacres. it had formerly been owned by Jolly and was theonly place of such kind in the county under control ofBurrage. The description of the premises to be searchedwas sufficiently clear to enable an officer with reason-able effort to ascertain and identify the place to besearched. That is the rule and the test. The warrant

clearly stated that the search was for the bodies ofthe three identified victims. This warrant was served

at 8:12 A.M., August 4, 1964, according to FBI agents�testimony supported by memoranda made at the same momentas an official record. The Court believes from the evidencethat the government agents acted with full authority underthis warrant in doing all that was done on said date towardsearching for and discovering these bodies. This evidencewas not illegally obtained and the prccess therefor wasvalid. This motion to suppress is without merit and willbe overruled. �

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to sign a consent to plead guilty or nolo contendere andtransfer his case under Rule 20, Federal Rules of Criminal

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