"Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Today is Tuesday, Jan. 6, the sixth day of 2026. There are 359 days left in the year. Today in history: On Jan. 6, 2005, former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen was indicted on murder charges 41 years after three civil rights workers were killed in Mississippi. (Killen was later convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 60 years in prison; he died in prison in 2018.) Also on this date:"
"In 1919, former President Theodore Roosevelt died in Oyster Bay, New York, at age 60. In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his State of the Union address, outlined a goal of Four Freedoms human rights worthy of defending universally: freedom of speech and expression, the freedom to worship God in one's own way, freedom from want, and freedom from fear."
"In 1974, year-round daylight saving time began in the United States on a trial basis as a fuel-saving measure in response to the OPEC oil embargo. The country, however, returned to standard time in October, effectively ending the experiment. In 1982, truck driver William G. Bonin was convicted in Los Angeles of 10 of the Freeway Killer slayings of young men and boys. (Bonin was later convicted of four other killings; he was executed in 1996.)"
On Jan. 6, 2005, Edgar Ray Killen was indicted for the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers; he was later convicted, sentenced to 60 years, and died in prison. In 1919, former President Theodore Roosevelt died. In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt outlined the Four Freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom to worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. In 1974, a trial of year-round daylight saving time began but ended in October. In 1982, William G. Bonin was convicted of multiple Freeway Killer slayings and later executed. In 1994, Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed in the leg. In 2021, Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol; Ashli Babbitt was shot and killed while attempting to breach a barricaded doorway.
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