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Mississippi Burning ' s first week of limited release saw it take $225,034, an average of $25,003.40 per theater. [37] The film grossed an additional $160,628 in its second weekend. [ 37 ] More theaters were added during the limited run, and on January 27, 1989, the film officially entered wide release.
United States v. Cecil Price, et al., also known as the Mississippi Burning trial or Mississippi Burning case, was a criminal trial where the United States charged a group of 18 men with conspiring in a Ku Klux Klan plot to murder three young civil rights workers (Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman) in Philadelphia, Mississippi on June 21, 1964 during Freedom Summer.
Olen Lavelle Burrage (March 16, 1930 – March 15, 2013) was a Mississippi farmer and businessman who was tried and acquitted of the June 1964 murders of three civil rights workers. Burrage owned the farm where the bodies of James Chaney , Andrew Goodman , and Michael Schwerner were found buried in an earthen dam.
When he found out about the church burning, he decided to drive back to Mississippi. Accompanying him were 21-year-old James Chaney, a black man, and Andrew Goodman. They were heading to Longdale in Neshoba County , where the sheriff, Lawrence A. Rainey , and his deputy, Cecil Price , were members of the Klan, although the Klansmen never ...
Jerry W. Mitchell (born February 23, 1959) [1] is an American investigative reporter formerly with The Clarion-Ledger, a newspaper in Jackson, Mississippi.He convinced authorities to reopen many cold murder cases from the civil rights era, his investigations providing the basis for prosecutions, prompting one colleague to call him "the South's Simon Wiesenthal". [2]
Chris Gerolmo is a Golden Globe nominated screenwriter, [1] director, [1] and singer-songwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the multi-Academy Award nominated film Mississippi Burning and the less successful Miles from Home starring Richard Gere. He has also written a book about the death of his wife, Joan, from cancer in 2007. [2]
While drought conditions and resulting wildfires prompted a partial statewide burn ban in Mississippi, it has been lifted as of Nov. 16, although some counties remain under county burn bans.
John Hamiter Proctor Jr. (April 19, 1926 in Reform, Alabama – May 30, 1999 in Meridian, Mississippi) was an American FBI agent (1951–1978) and U.S. Navy signalman second class from 1944 to 1946 and served during World War II. He was most famous for his role in investigating the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in 1964.