Three Missing Volunteers

Three young civil-rights volunteers drove out to look at a burned church. A deputy sheriff arrested and jailed them. He released them late at night. Klan members were waiting on the road. The deputy stopped the volunteers' car and moved the three men into his own vehicle. They were driven to a remote spot, shot dead, and buried under an earthen dam with a bulldozer. Prosecutors say the Klan's top leader had approved getting rid of one volunteer. The deputy, the Klan leader and others are charged with conspiring to deny the victims their rights.