. but the names of those arrested only for civil rights violations have been protected 
I wanted to know if any were still in public office. but this man arrested has lived freely for over 40 years w/out a care in the world. and at his current age, he could die during the trial process.http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/01/07/missi ... index.html
New arrest in 1964 civil rights murders
White supremacist, 80, charged in 'Mississippi Burning' killings
Friday, January 7, 2005 Posted: 1:35 AM EST (0635 GMT)
(CNN) -- An 80-year-old Mississippi man was arrested Thursday in the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers whose bodies were buried in an earthen dam outside the town of Philadelphia -- killings that spurred national support for the civil rights movement.
Edgar Ray Killen, an outspoken white supremacist nicknamed the "Preacher," was arrested at his home without incident in rural Neshoba County about 5:45 p.m. Thursday (6:45 p.m. ET), Sheriff Larry Myers said.
"He was real quiet. He didn't have much to say," Myers told CNN by phone.
He said the arrest was made after a grand jury in Philadelphia indicted Killen on three counts of murder in the June 21, 1964, slayings of civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman.
Killen is scheduled for arraignment Friday, and no bail amount has been set, Myers said.
"As far as I know, this is the only arrest that is forthcoming," the sheriff said.
A new $100,000 reward was offered for information in the case last month by the Mississippi Religious Leadership Conference, an interfaith group organized in response to attacks on black churches in the 1960s. The sheriff said he was not sure if that reward generated any information that led to Thursday's arrest.
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood reopened the investigation last year and began presenting evidence to the grand jury. Prosecutors "just want some closure to the case," Myers said.
CNN was unable to reach Hood for comment Thursday.
Lawrence Guyot, a spokesman for Veterans of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, said the arrest made him "proud to be a Mississippian."
"This is unparalleled in Mississippi. This is a new Mississippi," he said.
Guyot knew Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner and "almost got in the car with them" on that fateful night in June 1964.
"It is never too late to do what is right," he said. "I know Mississippi and I know how hard it was to fight justice."
Claude McInnis, the executive vice chair of the state Democratic Party, said, "My hat's off to them in making this arrest."
"Justice always prevails and if you commit crimes, you face justice," said McInnis, a former sharecropper and civil rights activist. "But there is another old saying that justice delayed is justice denied."
Killen was among 19 people who faced federal charges in the killings in 1967. The case ended in a mistrial for Killen, although seven people -- including a Philadelphia police officer and a Neshoba County sheriff's deputy -- were convicted of conspiracy charges.
Schwerner, 24, and Goodman, 20, were volunteers sent to Mississippi as part of the "Freedom Summer" drive to register black voters in the state. Chaney, 21, was a black Meridian resident who participated in the drive.
They were arrested in Neshoba County while on their way to Meridian, jailed briefly and released -- but they were stopped outside town by members of the Ku Klux Klan, beaten and shot to death. Their bodies were found more than six weeks later, buried in an earthen dam.
During the 1967 trial, former Ku Klux Klansman James Jordan testified that Killen had told the men involved that deputies "had three of the civil rights workers locked up, and we had to hurry and get there and we were to pick them up and tear their butts up."
In a 1999 interview with the Jackson Clarion-Ledger, Killen denied any involvement in the killings or any involvement with the Klan. Other former Klansmen have publicly identified him as a member of the white supremacist group, however.
The killings inspired a 1988 movie "Mississippi Burning," directed by Alan Parker.
he gets 2 spend his last days in hell n die in prison. He could hav come clean long time ago. Smug sommabiatch.
They still hate us for sure. I say move on, sell some of that land, get industrialized and live happily not poorly and quitcher damn griping 140 years later !!!!