50 years ago as civil rights activisted marched in the streets of san francisco, republicans came to the city to elect their president. and in the south college students spear headed a voter registration drive with deadly consequences.

it's all next on a second look. hello everyone i'm frank somerville and welcome to a second look. as voters across the country get ready to cast their ballots next month. we look back 50 years to the election of 1954. it was a time when civil rights activists risked their lives for voting rights in the south and the ku-klux-klan terrorized the region. it was lyndon b. johnson that signed in the civil rights act. randy shandobil took a look at what happened in the 1964 convention. >> reporter: july 1964. even then san francisco was a liberal place. democrats outnumbered republicans 2-1.

but it was here through a republican conservative movement had its first major find. with the cold war and the fear of a nuclear war, the fire brand leading the conservative revolution was welcomed as a hero in san francisco. >> our faith that all the american people can hear that the only enemy of peace in the world is communism. >> reporter: the san francisco convention was actually held in daly city at the cal palace. john hairington was there later he would be president reagan's secretary. >> it was at cal palace. a place better suited for rodeos and circuses. the acustics were terrible.

the facilities were terrible. >> reporter: and with expectations of cable car rides, the trip to the bay city was a cold shower. nelson rockerfeller seemed the likely nominee. but a divorce and an affair killed his chances entering barry goldwater. but the summer of 64 was also the summer of civil rights. and when goldwater voted against the civil rights bill, republicans got scared. >> minority groups run this country. let's face up to it. >> i must say i don't see how any negro or white person would vote for this person. >> i'm ronald reagan, every

person should hear what goldwater has to say. >> reporter: and goldwater pushed bill scranton. it was too late, goldwater had the delegates. >> exciting? yes. a landmark event for conservatives? absolutely. but long time republicans say there was a bit of a hollow ring to it all. they said that everyone knew that republicans had no chance of winning the election. it was after all just eight months after the assassination of president kennedy. >> it was such an earth shaking

occurrence and lyndon johnson came in on a wave of sympathy toward jack kennedy. he came in on a wave that he was going to carry on for the dead president. >> ♪ hello lyndon, hello lyndon. it's so great to have you there where you belong ♪ the day before the election there was a large but peaceful march. >> in your heart you know who's right. his slogan with his picture.

the democrats brought out the far right. >> reporter: he played it up. made it the high point of his convention acceptance speech. >> i will be reminded that extremism is no vice. >> it just electrified the place. his supporters rose. every man, woman, cheering. that's what they wanted to hear. that's the red meat. >> reporter: but the red meat line came back to hunt goldwater. moderate republicans left san francisco in disgust. and for democrats it set up what some said the most controversial tv ad in

political history. >> these are the faces to make a land in which all children can live. >> reporter: the liberal was not branded as too extreme, too dangerous. he lost in a landslide. still to come on a second look. >> i accept this award on behalf of the civil rights movement. >> martin luther king is honored with a noble prize as the ku-klux-klan responds where words of hate. and the freedom summer is met with brutality and death.

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i accept this award on behalf of the civil rights movement, which is moving with

determination. and a majestic for risk and danger and to accomplish a reign of freedom and a rule of justice. i'm mindful that only yesterday in birmingham alabama, our children crying out for brotherhood. threatened with fire hoses, snarling dogs and even death. stockholm 1964, 34-year-old dr. martin luther king jr. was awarded the peace prize. and he donated the money to the civil rights movement. as dr. king was honored in

oslow he was reviled by white supremecists in the south. it's weapons, widespread violence and fear. burning crosses at homes and churches and pulling people from their houses. some evenclaimed to be ghosts of conservative soldiers. college students volunteered to go to mississippi to help with voter registration. before they left for freedom summer they were given lessons on what to expect. >> they're going the pick you up on the road. they're going to try to put something on you, you're going to wind up in jail there's no doubt about it. >> reporter: the reality of the danger was brutally evident when a 21-year-old black man from mississippi, james chaney and two white jewish new

yorkers. michael goodwin and michael sherwerner were picked up on the street and disappeared. >> it took 44 days before the bodies of the three were found. acting on an informants tip the fbi discovered the men's bodies buried beneath at least 15 feet of clay. the two white men had been shot right through the heart. cheney had been beaten until all of the bones in his body were broken and then he was shot three times. >> with tears in his eyes, james cheney 12-year-old brother sang at his funeral. >> ♪

in january of 2005, a bomb shell. an arrest in the case. as erik phillips reported then, this was the first time the state of mississippi brought murder charges in connection with the infamous killings. >> 21-year-old james cheney, 20- year-old andrew goodman and 24- year-old michael shwerner. three civil rights workers killed in the summer of 1964 in philadelphia mississippi. now more than 40 years later the first person to face state murder charges in this case has been arrested. edgar ray killen was indicted by a grand jury. this is a case many in this community will never forget. the three men had come to philadelphia to investigate the burning of a black church where some of their voter registration efforts had been taking place. the men were pulled over by local authorities after leaving the search, arrested and taken to jail. hours later they were released only to drive into a deadly

trap on a dark road. klu klux-klan members forced them to stop. beat them, shot them and buried them in a dam. back in 1967, killing was one of 19 who faced federal conspiracy charges in the killings. seven of the accused were convicted, but his case ended in a mistrial. when we come back on the look, as edgar ray's trial gets under way. there are tearful moments in the courthouse and some explosive moments outside. and the brother of james cheney reacts to the verdict.

we'll -- welcome back to a second look. 25 years after three were killed in a dark stretch in

mississippi.the man accused of orchestrating the crime was staken to court. >> reporter: his family members arrived just before him where emotions running high. inside the arraignment was procedural. the three murder charges against him were read he responded not guilty. the proceedings were short but then back outside. tempers flaired as a man who said he was killins brother resisted to answer questions. while seven men were convicted on federal conspiracy charges in 1967, killens federal trial ended in a hung jury.

>> it's a relief because it's like closing the circle. you know if something was left undone, unresolved. >> reporter: some say killins inindictment is a victory but just the beginning. >> anyone who's involveded in this, if they're still alive we would like to see them indicted and back in court. >> reporter: but the district attorney says additional inindictments in this case are unlikely unless new evidence surfaces. still this action may live what some call a 40-year-old dark cloud over this community. >> if it has an effect of doing some healing i'm all for it. >> there's people in this community who say we can't let this go. >> reporter: the 80-year-old broke both of his legs while chop wood at his home. when it did get under way. he attended in a wheelchair. we were in the courtroom when

cheney's mother took the stand. >> this is my son. >> reporter: this mother of slain civil rights worker james cheney took the stand saturday. 82-year-old faney lee cheney wept several times as she recalled the day her son died. cheney says after her son's murder she moved from her home because she feared for her and her families life. >> they told me they were going to put dynamite under the house. blow us to bits and everything. and i better get on away from there because, i wasn't going to be there long before they -- i'd be put in a hole like james was. >> reporter: cheney was found.

duncan a native found himself in the line of fire when he asked oscar killin if he was aware of his brother's involvement in the ku-klux- klan. >> your daddy and my daddy was in the -- i swear on the bible gentlemen that's the way i've heard it all these years. >> reporter: duncan ignored the comment but responded outside the courtroom. >> well, i had to restrain myself a little bit i suppose. >> how do you respond to it. >> i don't. >> three years after three civil rights workers disappeared, a judge delivered the sentence. >> count one guilty of manslaughter. >> reporter: edgar ray killin

guilty of three counts of manslaughter. a lesser alternative to murder that could still put him behind bars for life. in the case of rita bonder, it's a door closing in the murder of her husband. >> there's still people who may choose to look aside and not see the truth. >> reporter: the jury acted 41 years after the killings became the emblem of the so called summer of freedom. voter rights activists, shwarner, cheney and gillem went to investigate the burning of a church. after being released they were run off the road by members of the klan. killed one after the other and buried. it took 44 days to find their bodies. state prosecutors arrested more

than a dozen suspects including killin without indicting anyone. but federal prosecutor later convicted seven people on civil rights charges with killen spared because one juror said she could not convict a preacher. ben cheney says the equal rights struggle is still far from over. >> the light will shine on this community on this day lightly but we're still living in the dark. >> killen was sentenced to 90 years. 20 years each. and tonight he remains behind bars. he is 89 years old. when we come back on a second look. in 1964, governor from the south was trying to capture the democrat nomination for president. what voters thought of george wallace.

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1964 marked the passage of the summer of freedom. among those seeking the president's office george wallace. he built his political campaign around segregation, democrats were stunned when wallace took his racial backlash message outside the south and won 1/3 of the wisconsin primary vote. george wallace died in 1998. >> reporter: george wallace was once the symbol of southern segregation. a governor trying to keep segregation at universities. >> segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever. >> reporter: it was segregation forever was his campaign promise but he could not deliver. as a democrat he served two terms in office then ran his

wife as surrogate and she won. wallace briefly ran for president in 1964 as a democrat. >> i'm running, i haven't decided who i will have as my vice president for candidate yet. but the no use needing anyone ask why i'm running i'm a candidate. >> reporter: by 1968 he had become an independent. >> no one has suggested that the wishes of the american people will be heard. so today i state to you that i am a candidate for president of the united states. >> reporter: wallace loved to campaign and was never afraid to say what he thought especially about liberals and anti war demonstrators. to him professors who opposed the vietnam war were just empty headed intellectuals. >> i'm getting tired of seeing that kind of decent. that's not decent that's treason. and i'm sick and tired of it. it. wallace lost in 68 but he won

votes that helped johnson. for wallace enough was not enough and he ran again in 1972. but a shooting did not allow him to complete the race, he would never walk again. wallace admitted he was too old and sick to continue as governor. >> i bid your pardon and bid your farewell. in 1995 he once again appeared in front of those doors at the university of alabama, this time to say, times had changed and to offer reconciliation. >> the state of alabama is

presidents -- is better than it was then. there's those who said that we would only get here over that dead body. the world today knows that we are here and we are standing before the forces of power in the state of alabama saying we ain't going to let nobody turn us around. >> this april, president obama said that he and the country owe a debt to the work that was done during the civil rights movement. >> because of the civil rights movement, because of the laws president johnson signed, new doors of opportunity and education swung open for everybody. not all at once but, but they swung open. >> and that's it for this

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