Killen Goes on Trial for Civil Rights Slayings

Published June 17, 2005 at 12:00 AM EDT

Chicago Tribune national correspondent Dahleen Glanton talks about the trial of 80-year old Edgar Ray Killen, charged in the deaths of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi more than 40 years ago.

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