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Criminal. He received notoriety being part of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. Member of the Ku Klux Klan, he personally shot and killed civil rights workers James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman on June 21, 1964. He was not prosecuted by the State of Mississippi. During the trial in...
1 de jul. de 1995 · Alton Wayne “Shug” Roberts. Birth. 4 Jul 1945. Death. 1 Jul 1995 (aged 49) Burial. Alton Roberts Cemetery. Pike County, Mississippi, USA Show Map. Memorial ID.
Wayne Roberts was the triggerman who killed Schwerner, Goodman, and Chaney on Rock Cut Road on the night of June 21, 1964. He was identified at trial as the killer by fellow Klansman James Jordan, Roberts was convicted, and sentenced to ten years in pison by Judge Cox. Roberts served his sentence at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas.
23 de may. de 2018 · Alton Wayne Roberts (April 6, 1938 – September 11, 1999) was a Klansman convicted of depriving slain activists Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney of their civil rights in 1964. He personally shot two of the three civil rights workers before his accomplices buried their bodies in a dam.
31 de ago. de 1989 · RICHMOND, Va. -- Alton Waye, baptized the night before he was executed for murdering a 61-year-old widow, peacefully accepted his fate but made one point clear in his last words: 'What's about to ...
21 de jun. de 2022 · Fila superior, de izquierda a derecha: James Harris, Alton Wayne Roberts y Edgar Killen. Fila inferior, de izquierda a derecha: Oliver Warner Jr., Herman Tucker y Jim Arledge (Bettmann Archive)
United States v. Cecil Price, et al., also known as the Mississippi Burning trial or Mississippi Burning case, was a criminal trial where the United States charged a group of 18 men with conspiring in a Ku Klux Klan plot to murder three young civil rights workers (Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman) in Philadelphia, Mississippi on June 21, 1964 during Freedom Summer.
