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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.
The murder of the activists sparked national outrage and an extensive federal investigation, filed as Mississippi Burning (MIBURN), which later became the title of a 1988 film loosely based on the events. In 1967, after the state government refused to prosecute, the United States federal government charged 18 individuals with civil rights ...
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.
Edgar Ray Killen (January 17, 1925 – January 11, 2018) was an American Ku Klux Klan organizer who planned and directed the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, three civil rights activists participating in the Freedom Summer of 1964.
Authorities in Panola County said Tellis and Chambers knew each other as residents of the same town, but gave no motive for the slaying.
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.
The remains recovered in the burned structure in Carthage, Mississippi, have been identified as one of the escapees, the Hinds County Sheriff’s Office confirmed last evening.