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ee ce RR A RS oe See ne EE BR Se at Aree Si traveling in a 1959 Chevrolet, gray and white in eolor. Killen called Frank Herndon out to the perch of the Longhorn and talked to him for several minutes, Frank then called me over and asked me if I could make a trip. I said 'yes'. Killen then said that they hed three civil rights workers in jail in Philadelphia and that they needed their "asses tore up’. Killen said that it had te be done in a hurry since they were being held on a minor charge. He further said that they would need four or five men from Lauderdale County to go and that there would be several from Neshoba County. Herndon went to the telephone and atarted making several calls. Arrangements were made to meet behind B. L. Akin's trailer at Akin's Mobile Homes, Tom Bailey Drive, Meridian, Mississippi. Sharp and I went to the home of Wayne Roberts in Mountain View Villege, Meridian, to see if Roberts could go. I went to the front door of Roberts’ residence and asked him if he could go on a trip. Roberts answered ‘yes’ and came out and got into the car. We then proceeded to Akin’s Mobile Homes where we met Travis Barnett, Doyle Barnett, Jim Snowden, Jim Aldridge, B. L. Akin, ‘Preacher’ Killen and Pete Harris. 8, L. Akin filled Doyle Barnett's car with gas. This car was a 1959 Ford bearing 1964 Louisiana license plate and was blue and white in color and belleved to be a e_Our-door model. q Pete Harris is an investigator for the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Mississippi. ;