Deputy U.S. Marshal J. Clarence Burns (left) ushers two Ku Klux Klansmen Cecil Myers (dark shirt, C) and Joseph Sims to Bibb County jail, after trip from Athens, Ga., where they waived preliminary rights on federal charges, leaving the way open for prosecution under Georgia law for murder. Four Klansmen, including this pair, are charged with the shotgun slaying of Negro educator Lemuel Penn as he drove along a Georgia road with two companions returning from Army summer training at Fort Benning.

United Press International · [ca. August 1964]

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