~lJfOPSY ON RIGHTS CRUSADER )ff. W~"t, HorrOrrr:,;:, But I wos disappolnted, too, .r I hecause I wouldn't ha.\'e a chance now 1o do something th 1 that rnl~ht help find the mur· r? A Doctor's Report ' 1 derers of those kids, Good· l rich, when he came on the .,._ phone, resoh·ed my amblva· il BY DAY1D 8PAIX, :'.\I.D. I was as surprised by the post· unteer for the Medical Com· t lent feelings for me. . fj C09Yright 19'4, The Layman's Pren midnight call as I would have mittee for Human Rights. Reprinttcl bY Permission "Get d0\\'11 here anyway. g . been if I looked out the win· "Dave, can. you get dov,n Take the late plane. There's y The phone rang about 1 :30 dow and saw my ailing out­ here, right away?" something tunny g o i n g on a .m. I had just gone to sleep, board motor running a.round "To Mississippi?" about this business. I think r after a restless hour In bed by itself in the bay. "Immediately. The autopsy we may be able to arrange conjugating tour days of utter • • • for you to examine the bodies t failure to get my outboard for those three kids Is sched· THE OPERATOR said Jack· uJed fo r tomorrow, and the later. It may all be a Wild J motor running, and I walked son, Miss., was call!ng. goose chase, but let's try." i half-asleep down the dark hall­ attorneys for :Mrs. Chaney and The man on the \~ire was )lickey Schwerner's famllr I said goodby, and then way to the telephone certain Dr. Charles Goodrich, a New told my wife that I was going that It was a wrong number. want an expert pathologist at York p h y s i c i a n who was the examination. a!! an lnde· to Mississippi, after all. The phone doesn't ring too spending his vacation in Mi~­ pendent observer." The Newa rk plane left on often at our summer home on sissippi giving medical aid to time and I had just unfastened )fartha's Vineyard Island, and civil-rights workers as a vol- I had been horrified by the my seatbelt when I heard a newspaper accounts of the man across the aisle tell the discovery of the bodies o! the stewardess to Jet him know it three young civil-rights work· "she ran across anybody C ers. I would do an)'ihing I could to help. Goodrich said Turn to Page 5A, Column 1 IC he had verbal permission for me to observe tile autopsy. ir People in New York were working on a way to get me Behind The Doetor!s Story from the little island off the coast of Massachusetts to On J une 21, 1964, two white men-, Mississippi by I u n c h t I m e. "You find a way to get me 24, and Andrew Goodman, 20, both of Kew York-and a Ii there, and I 'II go," I said. Negro, James Chaney, 21, of Meridian, ~ss., were killed • • • near Philadelphia, Miss.. THEN I WE:ST back to bed The FBI says it knows who the killers were but "in­ and waited. tensive investigation'' is continuing to build a court case. At 3 a.m., the phone rang The three young men were civil-rights workers. The again. There is a small air­ suspicion that they had been killed was confirmed when port on Martha's Vineyard l ~land. I was to be there at their burned-out s tation wagon was discovered near Phila­ 7 a.m. delphia two days after their disappearance. A special .plane would ts.kb • -* (< ' • ·--· • 'i:· ~ J rr.e tt-Kfillneu~ lu.1..:,:r.:.DL•i...ct1 TIIE ABS0LUTE FAC'.r of their deatlis was estab-. where I oould catch A 9:1.5 lished Aug. 4, when their bodies were found by FBI a.m. flight to Mlsslsslppl that agents, buried under a concrete footing beneath a 20-foot would get me into Jackson ·15 earthen dam on a farm six miles southwest of Phila­ minutes before the autopsy C was ischeduled to begin. delphia. a A coroner's jury reported two months later that it It was still