Today in History: January 6, former KKK leader indicted 41 years after killing civil rights workers

Today is Tuesday, Jan. 6, the sixth day of 2026. There are 359 days left in the year.

Today in history:

On Jan. 6, 2005, former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen was indicted on murder charges 41 years after three civil rights workers were killed in Mississippi. (Killen was later convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 60 years in prison; he died in prison in 2018.)

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In 1919, former President Theodore Roosevelt died in Oyster Bay, New York, at age 60.