Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›Klansmen Appear for Trial--Ku Klux Klansmen William Orville Eaton, (left), and Eugene Thomas, (right) are shown entering the federal court building here today where they go on trial for civil rights violations in connection with the slaying of Mrs. Viola Gregg Liuzzo, white Detroit, Mich., housewife. Eaton and Thomas also face state charges of murder in connection with the slaying. Collie Leroy Wilkins another Klansmen was acquitted in state court earlier of murder charges arising from the slaying.
Klansmen Appear for Trial--Ku Klux Klansmen William Orville Eaton, (left), and Eugene Thomas, (right) are shown entering the federal court building here today where they go on trial for civil rights violations in connection with the slaying of Mrs. Viola Gregg Liuzzo, white Detroit, Mich., housewife. Eaton and Thomas also face state charges of murder in connection with the slaying. Collie Leroy Wilkins another Klansmen was acquitted in state court earlier of murder charges arising from the slaying.
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Klansmen Appear for Trial--Ku Klux Klansmen William Orville Eaton, (left), and Eugene Thomas, (right) are shown entering the federal court building here today where they go on trial for civil rights violations in connection with the slaying of Mrs. Viola Gregg Liuzzo, white Detroit, Mich., housewife. Eaton and Thomas also face state charges of murder in connection with the slaying. Collie Leroy Wilkins another Klansmen was acquitted in state court earlier of murder charges arising from the slaying.

Associated Press · [ca. November 1965]

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