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This file concerns the 1964 Mississippi Burning investigation into the murders of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner in Neshoba County, Mississippi. The FBI investigated the killings as a civil rights matter, focusing on local law enforcement involvement, Ku Klux Klan activity, the victims' detention at the Neshoba County jail, and preparations for federal grand jury proceedings. The released records include Jackson office teletypes and summaries from September 1964, airtels, memoranda to the Justice Department Civil Rights Division, FD-302 interview reports, deleted-page sheets, and photograph indexes. The OCR shows witness accounts of Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price near the victims' station wagon, jail docket entries for the victims' June 21 arrest and release, reports on voter registration activity in Neshoba County, and coordination with Department attorneys over subpoenas and witnesses.

FBI file number: 44-25706 | Documents span: 1964 | Released in 9 parts
Names in this file: James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, Cecil Price, Lawrence Andrew Rainey, Robert Owen, John Doar, William Bradford Huie, Billy Wayne Posey, Minnie Lee Herring, Horace Virgil Hilton Herring
Subjects: civil rights murders, Ku Klux Klan, Neshoba County, voter registration, grand jury, FBI investigation