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Federal agents, left, listen as Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood tells reporters that the investigation into the infamous slayings of three civil rights workers in Mississippi is finally closed, 53 years almost to the day after the young men disappeared during "Freedom Summer," at a news conference Monday, June 20, 2016 in Jackson, Miss. The 1964 killings in Neshoba County sparked national outrage and helped spur passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. They later became the subject of the movie "Mississippi Burning." (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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