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Widow of Civil Rights Worker Reflects on Killen Verdict

NPR
Published June 21, 2005 at 11:00 PM CDT

It's been more than 40 years since civil rights worker Michael Schwerner was killed in Mississippi. Rita Schwerner Bender, his widow, talks about what the Killen verdict means to her.

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