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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.
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]
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Edgar Ray Killen, who had been in the State Penitentiary at Parchman, died in prison Thursday
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The White Knights were responsible for many bombings, church burnings, beatings, and murders. In 1964, they murdered three civil rights workers: Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner (their murder was later depicted in the 1988 film Mississippi Burning, loosely based on these events).
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.