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Jun 21, 2022 · The murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964 turned into one of Bureau’s biggest investigations of the era. An official website of the United States government. Here's how you...
When a group of civil rights workers goes missing in a small Mississippi town, FBI agents Alan Ward (Willem Dafoe) and Rupert Anderson (Gene Hackman) are sent in to investigate.
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Jun 28, 2021 · June 28, 2021 / 7:52 AM EDT / CBS/AP. Never-before-seen case files, photographs and other records documenting the investigation into the infamous slayings of three civil rights workers in...
In 1964, three civil rights workers from the North disappear in a small Mississippi town and the FBI are sent to investigate. Agent in charge Alan Ward does everything by the book. Agent Rupert Anderson however was a Sheriff in Mississippi before joining the FBI and understands the local culture.
“Mississippi Burning” is the best American film of 1988 and a likely candidate for the Academy Award as the year’s best picture. Apart from its pure entertainment value - this is the best American crime movie in years - it is an important statement about a time and a condition that should not be forgotten.
Apr 10, 2013 · On 21 June 1964, one black and two white civil rights activists disappeared near Philadelphia, Mississippi. The FBI codenamed the case MIBURN – short for Mississippi Burning. Crime....
The plot of Alan Parker’s 1988 film, Mississippi Burning, is drawn from the 1964 disappearance of civil rights workers Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who were white northerners, and James Chaney, a black native of Meridian, Mississippi. The three activists were working to register African American voters in Meridian as part of the Freedom Summer […]
