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Family Reaction to Killen Sentence

NPR
Published June 24, 2005 at 12:00 AM EDT

Ben Chaney is the brother of James Chaney, who was murdered more than 40 years ago in Philadelphia, Miss. James Chaney offers his reaction to Edgar Killen receiving the maximum sentence, after he was found guilty of manslaughter in the case, where two other civil rights workers were killed.

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