List of Famous people with last name Killen

Edgar Ray Killen

First Name Edgar

Last Name Killen

Born on January 17, 1925

Died on January 11, 2018 (aged 92)

Born in United States of America, Mississippi

Edgar Ray Killen was a Ku Klux Klan organizer who planned and directed the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, three civil rights activists participating in the Freedom Summer of 1964. He was found guilty in state court of three counts of manslaughter on June 21, 2005, the forty-first anniversary of the crime, and sentenced to 60 years in prison. He appealed the verdict, but the sentence was upheld on April 12, 2007, by the Supreme Court of Mississippi. He died in prison on January 11, 2018, six days before his 93rd birthday.

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Judith Balfour Killen

First Name Judith

Born on February 10, 1929

Died on October 24, 2012 (aged 83)

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J. Killen

First Name J.

Last Name Killen

Born on November 30, 1911 (age 113)

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