Aug. 7, 1964 - The body of one of the three young civil rights workers murdered in Mississippi was returned to New York today. The remains of Andrew Goodman, 20, were flown to New York for funeral services.
Goodman’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Goodman (pictured), were at Newark, N.J., Airport when the body arrived on a Delta Airlines plane. They stood a few feet away as the plain wooden coffin was taken from the cargo hatch of the airplane. As she watched, Mrs. Goodman lost her composure in public for the first time since her son’s body was found. She cried and sobbed loudly as her husband, along with a police captain and an an airline employee, supported her.
The Goodmans were then driven by police to a cargo area where the coffin was loaded into a hearse. Police took the Goodmans to their own car, and the couple left for New York City with the hearse. The coffin was taken to the Riverside Memorial Chapel, 180 W. 76th St.
Services for the murdered youth will be held in the Ethical Culture Hall, 64th St. and Central Park West, at 11:30 a.m. tomorrow. Burial will be in Mount Judah Cemetery, Cypress Hills, Brooklyn.
Goodman and Michael Schwerner, 24, also of New York, were shot once in the heart, according to sources close to the Mississippi probe. The third victim, Negro James Chaney, 21, of Meridian, Miss., was shot three times, it was said.
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