JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A federal magistrate denied bail Monday to a 71-year-old reputed Ku Klux Klansman charged in the 1964 slayings of two black men.

James Ford Seale has been jailed since his arrest on kidnapping charges last week.

U.S. Magistrate Linda R. Anderson said Seale might flee if released on bail because he has no job or property, is a pilot and lives in a motor home.

Prosecutors say Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee, both 19, were seized and beaten by Klansmen and then thrown into the Mississippi River to drown. Their bodies were found about two months later.

Modified Tuesday, November 02, 2010