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As James Chaney's family awaited the drive to his burial, 12-year-old Ben gazed outward. "There were a dozen questions in that look," says photographer Bill Eppridge.
James Chaney. Credit: FBI. Price returned a little after 10pm, collected Chaney’s speeding fine -- with no Justice of the Peace -- and told the three men to get out of the county.
He was buried in a cemetery not far south of the remote, wooded area where Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman were executed. His gravestone includes the title of “Rev.” James A. Young, 68 ...
Chaney, the 21-year-old native Mississippian known as "J.E.," had been working in the civil rights movement ever since he got kicked out of school in Meridian for sporting an NAACP button.