Edgar Ray Killen original handwritten one page letter from 2007
He talks about his health problems and about being a political prisonner. He complains to have been kept for over two years in solitary confinement.
Signed your friend Edgar Ray
Edgar Ray Killen (January 17, 1925 – January 11, 2018) was a ku klux klan organizer who allegedly planned and directed the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schweitzer, three civil right 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 against 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