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'.192. 1-;-;;_--.1.-_ Title: BERNARDL, AKIN, ET AL; , JAMES EARL CHANEY; mcmst HENRY scumzausa, aka Mickey; ANDREWcooomn - VICTIMS Character: CIVIL I_ZIGHTS- ELECTION mws; _ MISPRIS-TON OF FELONY;JUVENILE DELINQUENCY ACT A_ Bureau File: 44-2592 706 --2"':',. .- ,_92A .¢ 8 . _~ - Jackson File: 44-1 955 _.5: '""""" ' 11_________4__!___ I1 ._. - F 11- If UbECL1E1VB ournmary report OI bA at I Jackson dated December 19, 1964. 576. = ii; v -'."<'5' -' '$=..**;£+-.3. .:~»==~;,;= VOLUME - '-"§{1':'*:f§ u -3.-1: J I V ********************** -32:-K' -, * ' -k ;~=°;-"-->35; * I This report consists of four * volumes, including a Digest of the .T*.~3§-'}._ * Table ofContents andcomplete Index V"-";_-'.'.;_ * in each volume. Included in each '§ -'~'is volume a detailed Table of ¬oni:ents . * pertaining to that volume. 2,". *.,I'f ;-_-<.'-=._f;-91; * This is Volume IV. * ' ,_,;_-.3-__-;:.1"'5¢~~ ****************a-**** - 4//-025701. pi". 1 :_, /Br; Dal. 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ARLHDGE was in the car at the time the group awaited the release of the civil rights workers from the Jail at Philadelphia and he accompanied this group to the point where the civil rights workers car was stopped by Deputy Sheriff CECIL PRICE, After ;sJ~>.='.' ' Z» '- the civil rights workers were removed from their car, :7 ve their stati .