Harlan Majure
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Harlan Majure (born October 28, 1929 in Meridian, Mississippi) is a former mayor of Philadelphia, Mississippi during the 1990s. He married Peggy De Mauriee Perry and had two children.
He is most well-known for his testimony in the June 2005 murder trial of Edgar Ray Killen, accused of killing several civil-rights workers in 1964. He provided an alibi for Killen and asserted that the Klu Klux Klan was a "peaceful organization."
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External links
- Testimony in Killen trial (http://www.neshobademocrat.com/main.asp?FromHome=1&TypeID=1&ArticleID=10481&SectionID=36&SubSectionID=371)
- Associated Press release about the trial (http://groups-beta.google.com/group/clari.local.mississippi/browse_thread/thread/5dfb6f7743b31415/f8aa1654d8255586?q=Harlan+Majure&rnum=1&hl=en#f8aa1654d8255586)
- Geneology (http://www.twmccarty.com/unadoc_tillman.html)
