Ex-Klansman on trial for 1964 killings leaves court on stretcher

ONE-TIME Klansman Edgar Ray Killen was removed from court on a stretcher and treated for high blood pressure yesterday on the opening day of testimony.

He is on trial for the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers.

The court went into recess to await Killen’s return, but not before courtroom observers wept as the widow of one of the slain men described her reaction when her husband’s car was found, burned and abandoned, in the Mississippi countryside.