Klansman killer of civil rights leader dies in jail

Former Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard Samuel Bowers died yesterday in a US state penitentiary in the Mississippi Delta.

Klansman killer of civil rights leader dies in jail
Mon, 06 Nov, 2006 - 15:34

Former Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard Samuel Bowers died yesterday in a US state penitentiary in the Mississippi Delta.

The 82-year-old was serving a life sentence for the 1966 bombing death of civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer.

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