0:00:08 > 0:00:15This film contains some strong language and some violent scenes.
0:00:26 > 0:00:32# Gracious Lord
0:00:33 > 0:00:38# Take my hand
0:00:41 > 0:00:51# Lead me on
0:00:51 > 0:00:57# Let me stand
0:00:57 > 0:01:04# I am tired
0:01:04 > 0:01:11# I am weak
0:01:11 > 0:01:22# I am walking
0:01:22 > 0:01:31# Through the storm
0:01:31 > 0:01:44# Through the night
0:01:44 > 0:01:59# Lead me all through the night
0:02:01 > 0:02:13# Take my hand, gracious Lord
0:02:13 > 0:02:25# And lead me home
0:02:25 > 0:02:42# Take my hand, gracious Lord
0:02:42 > 0:02:57# And lead me home. #
0:03:01 > 0:03:03CRICKETS CHIRP
0:04:46 > 0:04:48What the...?
0:04:51 > 0:04:53What is it?
0:04:57 > 0:04:59What do they want?
0:04:59 > 0:05:02I don't know.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04Just pass me.
0:05:04 > 0:05:06Pass.
0:05:11 > 0:05:12Is it a cop?
0:05:12 > 0:05:14I can't see.
0:05:15 > 0:05:20- What the fuck are they playing at?! - They ain't playing!
0:05:30 > 0:05:34- What are we going to do? - I don't know.
0:05:38 > 0:05:40Hold on.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54There's a truck too.
0:06:09 > 0:06:11Shit, it IS a cop.
0:06:13 > 0:06:16- You'd better stop.- OK.
0:06:16 > 0:06:20Sit tight. Don't say anything. Let me talk.
0:06:21 > 0:06:25All right. We'll be all right. Just relax.
0:06:58 > 0:07:03Y'all think you can drive any speed you want round here?
0:07:03 > 0:07:07- You scared us, man. - Don't you call me "man", Jew-boy!
0:07:07 > 0:07:12- What should I call you? - Nothing, nigger-lover Jew-boy.
0:07:14 > 0:07:16Yes, sir.
0:07:16 > 0:07:21Hell, you even smell like a nigger, Jew-boy.
0:07:21 > 0:07:24Take it easy. We'll be all right.
0:07:24 > 0:07:26Sure, nigger-lover.
0:07:26 > 0:07:30MAN: He's seen your face. That ain't good.
0:07:30 > 0:07:33Oh, it don't make no difference no more.
0:07:36 > 0:07:40Ho! Shit, we're into it now, boys! GUNSHOTS
0:07:40 > 0:07:45Well, you only left me a nigger, but at least I shot me a nigger!
0:07:45 > 0:07:48LAUGHTER
0:08:11 > 0:08:15# Now listen, you communists niggers and Jews
0:08:15 > 0:08:18# Tell your buddies to spread the news
0:08:18 > 0:08:24# The day of judgement will be nigh As the Lord looks down from high
0:08:24 > 0:08:27# Will his battle be lost by mixing races?
0:08:27 > 0:08:32# We want beautiful babies - not ones with brown faces
0:08:32 > 0:08:35# Never, never, never, I say!
0:08:35 > 0:08:41# The Ku Klux Klan is here to stay! The Ku Klux Klan is here to stay! #
0:08:41 > 0:08:44The Ku Kluxes write rotten lyrics!
0:08:44 > 0:08:49Just read the file, Mr Anderson. I can do without the cabaret.
0:08:49 > 0:08:54- You don't like me, do you, boss? - I do, but not your sense of humour.
0:08:54 > 0:08:59Sometimes that's all you've got. How long have you been in the FBI?
0:08:59 > 0:09:05- Three years.- Right out of college! - No, from the Justice Department.
0:09:05 > 0:09:09A Kennedy boy! Now I see.
0:09:09 > 0:09:14No. I don't think you DO see. Let's get this thing straight.
0:09:14 > 0:09:21I haven't had a pimple in years. I even go to the bathroom by myself. So, you can quit this "boss" stuff.
0:09:21 > 0:09:28- They put me in charge because I've seen this before. - Birmingham? Montgomery?
0:09:28 > 0:09:35- Oxford. I was with Meredith. - You got hit with a brick, so they gave you promotion, right?
0:09:35 > 0:09:41- No. Shot in the shoulder.- At least you lived. That's important.
0:09:41 > 0:09:44No, Meredith lived. THAT'S what's important.
0:09:51 > 0:09:53What's got four eyes and can't see?
0:09:54 > 0:09:56What?
0:09:56 > 0:09:58Mississippi!
0:09:59 > 0:10:05# Never, never, never, I say! The Ku Klux Klan is here to stay! #
0:10:37 > 0:10:40- Big building for a small town. - Yeah.
0:10:42 > 0:10:44Howdy.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18Good morning.
0:11:18 > 0:11:22My name's Alan Ward. I'm with the FBI.
0:11:22 > 0:11:25Federal Bureau of Integration!
0:11:28 > 0:11:31That get-up ain't quite undercover.
0:11:31 > 0:11:35- We're here to see Sheriff Stuckey. - He's right busy now.
0:11:36 > 0:11:39You'll have to wait - or come back.
0:11:42 > 0:11:44We'll wait.
0:11:48 > 0:11:51MAN'S MUTED VOICE >
0:11:56 > 0:12:04Listen to me, you backward shit-ass. You've got two seconds to get the Sheriff, or I kick the door in.
0:12:06 > 0:12:07DOOR OPENS
0:12:07 > 0:12:14Looks like we got company. Some Hoover boys come down to visit. How you doing?
0:12:14 > 0:12:15Good!
0:12:15 > 0:12:18- Sheriff Stuckey.- Rupert Anderson.
0:12:18 > 0:12:23Rupert, we've been expecting you. I assume you've met Deputy Pell?
0:12:23 > 0:12:25Sure did.
0:12:25 > 0:12:28Here to solve our nigger problem?
0:12:28 > 0:12:33- No, it's just a Missing Person case. - Hm. Well, come on.
0:12:33 > 0:12:35Say, you want your boy in on this?
0:12:37 > 0:12:45I'm Special Agent Ward, and I'm in charge of this case. It's a little more serious than Missing Persons.
0:12:45 > 0:12:47I don't think so, boy.
0:12:47 > 0:12:54I think it's a publicity stunt cooked up by that Martin Luther King fella.
0:13:07 > 0:13:14At 3pm Deputy Pell says he arrested three boys for speeding. He held them until 10pm, then released them.
0:13:14 > 0:13:19They drove off. He says he followed them to the county line,
0:13:19 > 0:13:22and never saw them again.
0:13:23 > 0:13:30- Why didn't they make a phone call? - Why should they?- Mr Anderson, these boys were trained activists.
0:13:30 > 0:13:33They always call immediately on release.
0:13:33 > 0:13:37They could have phoned from the hotel lobby.
0:13:37 > 0:13:45- It doesn't follow.- Maybe they went for a beer.- No. The Civil Rights Office in Rossville made some calls.
0:13:45 > 0:13:52The Sheriff's Office here said they'd no idea where the boys were. First lie.
0:13:54 > 0:13:58By who? Sheriff's Office or Civil Rights Office?
0:13:58 > 0:14:04- Who would YOU believe? - Mr Ward, I was a Sheriff in a Mississippi town like this.
0:14:04 > 0:14:08- Yes, I know. - Lying don't come into it.
0:14:08 > 0:14:14We're miles from the rest of the world. If a Sheriff says, "That's what happened,"
0:14:14 > 0:14:18- then that's what happened. - Let's go eat.
0:14:20 > 0:14:22CHATTERING
0:14:32 > 0:14:40- We're full, honey. Y'all want to wait?- Is it worth it?- We're not full for nothing! Want to see the menu?
0:14:40 > 0:14:43- Sure enough.- Thank you.
0:14:43 > 0:14:49- Y'all gonna wait or leave. - We'll wait, cos we want to be near you!
0:14:49 > 0:14:53- There's some empty seats down there. - Er, Mr Ward...
0:14:53 > 0:15:01- That's coloured. Don't even think about it. There's someone leaving here.- Aren't you hungry, Anderson?
0:15:06 > 0:15:09DINER FALLS SILENT
0:15:10 > 0:15:12Good afternoon. Looks good.
0:15:23 > 0:15:28May I ask you a few questions? I'm looking for some information.
0:15:29 > 0:15:34- I've got nothing to say to you, sir. - Just a few questions.
0:15:38 > 0:15:40I ain't got nothing to say, sir.
0:15:56 > 0:16:04Three Civil Rights boys came here to propose setting up a voter registration clinic.
0:16:04 > 0:16:09Before the locals got a chance to say yes, the Klan burned them down.
0:16:09 > 0:16:14Give a man a vote, but don't let him use it. What did your office say?
0:16:14 > 0:16:18That the boys came back to apologise to the congregation.
0:16:18 > 0:16:25"Sorry you folks didn't get to vote. Most of you didn't know you even had one.
0:16:25 > 0:16:29"Now you've got no place to go on Sundays."
0:16:29 > 0:16:34Apparently, after they came back here, they spoke to some locals.
0:16:34 > 0:16:38- That's where we should start. - They won't talk to you.
0:16:38 > 0:16:44These people would rather bite their tongues off than talk to us!
0:16:44 > 0:16:46Bureau procedure, Mr Anderson.
0:16:53 > 0:16:57The church caught fire, and you ran home?
0:16:57 > 0:16:59Yes, sir.
0:16:59 > 0:17:04- Then four white men stopped you? - Yes, sir.
0:17:04 > 0:17:06These men attacked your husband?
0:17:07 > 0:17:09Yes, sir.
0:17:09 > 0:17:12And you can't identify them?
0:17:13 > 0:17:15No, sir.
0:17:16 > 0:17:20- Did you report this to the police? - No, sir.
0:17:20 > 0:17:25- But you told the Civil Rights boys what happened?- Yes, sir.
0:17:25 > 0:17:29Ma'am, did they tell you where they were going after that?
0:17:32 > 0:17:34< No, sir.
0:17:34 > 0:17:36Nothing?
0:17:36 > 0:17:38No, sir.
0:17:39 > 0:17:42All right. Thank you, ma'am.
0:17:42 > 0:17:44You're welcome.
0:17:52 > 0:17:54KNOCKING ON DOOR
0:17:54 > 0:17:59POUNDING ON DOOR Come on, boy. Open up!
0:18:01 > 0:18:04- Is your brother Hollishere? - Yes, sir.
0:18:04 > 0:18:07- We want to see him.- Why?
0:18:07 > 0:18:10Wake him up. That's the man!
0:18:12 > 0:18:15Come here, boy!
0:18:15 > 0:18:16Hollis! >
0:18:17 > 0:18:21- Get back here, fucking nigger! - Hollis!
0:18:27 > 0:18:29PIGS SQUEAL
0:18:36 > 0:18:40Better not catch you talking to the FBI!
0:18:40 > 0:18:44- You'll be dead, boy!- Aargh!
0:18:53 > 0:18:55BABY CRIES
0:19:00 > 0:19:03You admire these kids, don't you?
0:19:03 > 0:19:05Don't YOU?
0:19:05 > 0:19:08I think they're being used.
0:19:08 > 0:19:15I think they're being sent down here in their sneakers to get their heads cracked open.
0:19:15 > 0:19:18Maybe they believed in what they were doing.
0:19:18 > 0:19:21- Did it occur to them they'll end up dead?- Maybe.
0:19:21 > 0:19:24Washington sure as hell knew.
0:19:24 > 0:19:27Some things are worth dying for.
0:19:30 > 0:19:33Down here, they see things a little differently.
0:19:33 > 0:19:37They feel some things are worth KILLING for.
0:19:41 > 0:19:45Where does it come from - all this hatred?
0:19:47 > 0:19:53When I was a boy, there was a negro farmer living near us called Monroe.
0:19:54 > 0:19:59He was... I guess he was just a little luckier than my daddy was.
0:20:03 > 0:20:06He bought himself a mule.
0:20:07 > 0:20:11That was a big deal around town. My daddy hated that mule!
0:20:11 > 0:20:18His friends were always kidding him that they'd seen Monroe ploughing
0:20:18 > 0:20:20with his new mule,
0:20:20 > 0:20:25and how Monroe was going to rent another field now he had a mule.
0:20:25 > 0:20:29One morning, that mule just showed up dead.
0:20:30 > 0:20:32They'd poisoned the water.
0:20:33 > 0:20:38After that, there was no mention of that mule around my daddy.
0:20:41 > 0:20:49One time, we were driving past Monroe's place and we saw it was empty. He'd packed up and left.
0:20:52 > 0:20:55I looked over at my daddy's face...
0:20:57 > 0:20:59..and I knew he'd done it.
0:20:59 > 0:21:02He saw that I knew. He was ashamed.
0:21:04 > 0:21:07I guess he WAS ashamed.
0:21:08 > 0:21:15He said to me, "If you're no better than a nigger, son, who ARE you better than?"
0:21:16 > 0:21:19You think that's an excuse?
0:21:19 > 0:21:23It's no excuse - it's a story about my daddy.
0:21:27 > 0:21:35- Where does that leave you?- He was so full of hate, he didn't know that being POOR was killing him.
0:21:39 > 0:21:41EXPLOSION
0:21:44 > 0:21:47Get the light! Get the LIGHT!
0:21:48 > 0:21:49You OK?
0:22:00 > 0:22:03I guess they know we're here.
0:22:13 > 0:22:15Aargh!
0:22:17 > 0:22:19CAR WHEELS SCREECH
0:22:37 > 0:22:42- Now you know what you're getting into.- I'll call for more agents.
0:22:42 > 0:22:48- Will it make a difference if I tell you that's the wrong thing to do? - No.
0:23:01 > 0:23:03CHATTERING
0:23:34 > 0:23:39The whole place for 75 a month. It's central. It's perfect.
0:23:39 > 0:23:45Hmm. There's room for a hundred more agents. Two hundred in the balcony(!)
0:23:45 > 0:23:49I'll take any help I can get to find the boys.
0:23:51 > 0:23:53When does the show start(?)
0:24:34 > 0:24:37DRAMATIC MUSIC DROWNS SPEECH
0:24:46 > 0:24:49- Who's the big shot? - It's the Klan.
0:24:49 > 0:24:54No pointy hats, but plenty of pointy heads.
0:24:54 > 0:24:57Let me run a check on the plates.
0:25:26 > 0:25:32- Good afternoon, gentlemen.- Anderson. Say hello to Mayor Tilman here.
0:25:32 > 0:25:35- How do you do?- Mr Mayor. Mr Barber.
0:25:36 > 0:25:39This looks like the place to be.
0:25:39 > 0:25:41Even for me.
0:25:41 > 0:25:46Nothing like a barber shop for jawing your socks off!
0:25:46 > 0:25:52- Where are you from, Anderson? - Barton, Mississippi. A spit from Tennessee.
0:25:52 > 0:26:00Then, you know how we all feel down here. We don't take to outsiders telling us how to live our lives.
0:26:00 > 0:26:08I tell you, our niggers were happy till those college kids stirred things up. Nobody was complaining.
0:26:09 > 0:26:11Nobody dared!
0:26:11 > 0:26:16We got a real peaceful community. They're just like any other folks.
0:26:16 > 0:26:23You can push them too far. Way I figure it, it's like three sticks of old dynamite -
0:26:23 > 0:26:28you shake it up, and we're going to be scraping up bodies.
0:26:30 > 0:26:34I'm just here to investigate the missing kids.
0:26:34 > 0:26:39If this boiled down to gravy - it wouldn't cover a steak.
0:26:39 > 0:26:46Them kids you're looking for - I'll bet they're sitting up in Chicago right now,
0:26:46 > 0:26:53- drinking a cold beer and laughing about all this commotion. - I sure hope so!
0:26:53 > 0:27:00You can tell your bosses people got the wrong idea about the South. You know what I mean.
0:27:00 > 0:27:08Everybody running about backwards and illiterate, eating sow-belly and cornpone three times a day.
0:27:09 > 0:27:16Simple fact is, Anderson, we got two cultures down here. White culture and the coloured culture.
0:27:16 > 0:27:23- That's how it'll always be.- The rest of America don't agree, Mr Mayor.
0:27:23 > 0:27:29- The rest of America don't mean Jack shit! You're in Mississippi now. - That's for sure(!)
0:27:29 > 0:27:31Hmm.
0:27:31 > 0:27:36- COMMENTARY ON RADIO - What's the score?- St Louis 5-0.
0:27:36 > 0:27:39- What inning is it?- Seventh.
0:27:39 > 0:27:42- You like baseball?- Yeah, I do.
0:27:42 > 0:27:48It's the only time that a black man can wave a stick at a white man,
0:27:48 > 0:27:51and not start a riot.
0:27:57 > 0:27:59DOOR SLAMS
0:28:06 > 0:28:08Sir.
0:28:08 > 0:28:11Checked on the plates, sir. Clayton Townley.
0:28:11 > 0:28:16- Townley. The Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.- That's him.
0:28:16 > 0:28:23- We may have a lead on the whereabouts of the car. We're awaiting a call.- Good.
0:28:38 > 0:28:41- <- You've an appointment for Tuesday.
0:28:41 > 0:28:44See you then. Bye-bye.
0:29:04 > 0:29:08- You're going to go to that? - DOOR OPENS
0:29:08 > 0:29:10Afternoon, ladies!
0:29:10 > 0:29:12Can I help?
0:29:13 > 0:29:18Well, yes, you can. I tell you, I just HATE the way I look.
0:29:18 > 0:29:22What do you think? A permanent wave?
0:29:22 > 0:29:27- That looks pretty good. Did you have that done here?- No. Jackson.
0:29:27 > 0:29:32I think a wig's your only hope, hon! Can't do much with that cueball!
0:29:32 > 0:29:37- Thank you.- If you want to ask questions, you'll hear it all here.
0:29:37 > 0:29:41As a matter of fact, I do. You know, er...
0:29:41 > 0:29:48- I was wondering who that gentleman was over there. - His name's Clayton Townley.
0:29:48 > 0:29:52- Are you one of them FBI gentlemen? - Yes, ma'am, I am.
0:29:52 > 0:29:56< I think it's shame if those two kids are dead.
0:29:56 > 0:30:02- I sure hope you find them.- Thanks. There's a coloured kid missing also.
0:30:02 > 0:30:07- Would you be here if it wasn't for those white boys?- Maybe not, miss.
0:30:07 > 0:30:08Mrs.
0:30:08 > 0:30:12Pell. Her old man is the Deputy.
0:30:14 > 0:30:16I'm single.
0:30:16 > 0:30:18- TYRES SCREECH- >
0:30:30 > 0:30:32Hollis. >
0:30:39 > 0:30:42We'll take charge.
0:30:42 > 0:30:47Local problem. We'll handle this. We don't NEED your damn help!
0:30:49 > 0:30:53Ain't right having blood on Main Street. Looks bad on the news.
0:30:55 > 0:30:57OK. Easy. I got you. I got you.
0:31:02 > 0:31:07He was in the diner. Think before you talk to coloured kids in public.
0:31:07 > 0:31:15- That was a message from the big boss and you know it!- Yeah. Clayton Townley. Chief Pointy-Head!- Yes.
0:31:15 > 0:31:20- How did you know? - Bureau procedure. Try it!- We did.
0:31:20 > 0:31:23We found the car the kids were driving.
0:31:45 > 0:31:47DOG BARKS
0:32:01 > 0:32:03Good morning.
0:32:11 > 0:32:13Good morning.
0:33:29 > 0:33:34Two beer cans, a Coca-Cola bottle, a green plastic bottle,
0:33:34 > 0:33:38a wristwatch stopped at 12.45, and some keys.
0:33:38 > 0:33:40No bodies.
0:33:40 > 0:33:46- I want the entire area searched. - Yes, sir. It's a big swamp. - EVERY inch, Mr Bird.
0:33:50 > 0:33:53I guess they never left Mississippi.
0:33:54 > 0:33:57They're dead. They're dead.
0:33:57 > 0:33:59Mr Bird!
0:33:59 > 0:34:01Yes, sir.
0:34:01 > 0:34:08There's a phone at the truck stop. Get on it. Get me a hundred more men by morning.
0:34:08 > 0:34:10- A hundred?- A hundred.
0:34:10 > 0:34:16- Bureau people?- I don't care! I want this entire swamp searched.
0:34:16 > 0:34:17yes, sir.
0:34:19 > 0:34:23Don't do it, Mr Ward. You'll start a war.
0:34:23 > 0:34:26There was a war here already.
0:34:29 > 0:34:31DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS
0:35:14 > 0:35:17Your turn!
0:35:22 > 0:35:24Get the fuck out of here!
0:35:42 > 0:35:43MUSIC DROWNS SPEECH
0:35:45 > 0:35:48HUBBUB OF ACTIVITY
0:36:03 > 0:36:05Sir? >
0:36:05 > 0:36:11The Sheriff's alibi is solid. He was playing poker with his two cousins.
0:36:11 > 0:36:16- For the whole time?- No. For three hours. Lost 11 dollars and 38 cents!
0:36:16 > 0:36:22- We're having trouble with the motel manager. - What kind of trouble?
0:36:22 > 0:36:27- He wants us out. He says we're bad for business.- Buy it.
0:36:27 > 0:36:29Sorry, sir?
0:36:29 > 0:36:31BUY it!
0:36:31 > 0:36:34- The motel.- How high can I go?
0:36:34 > 0:36:36Whatever it takes.
0:36:57 > 0:37:02Today, in Jessup County, Mississippi, amidst the eruption of violence,
0:37:02 > 0:37:08the nation watches the search for the three Civil Rights workers.
0:37:08 > 0:37:13I think, if they're in that there swamp, then they asked for it.
0:37:13 > 0:37:18Naval reserves have joined the FBI in their search for the men.
0:37:19 > 0:37:24I think they planned the whole thing. They're laughing at us folks.
0:37:24 > 0:37:28- You think it's a hoax? - Yeah. They won't find nothing.
0:37:28 > 0:37:33Civil rights leaders here are optimistic,
0:37:33 > 0:37:37but privately there is mounting concern.
0:37:37 > 0:37:40They came down looking for trouble!
0:37:40 > 0:37:44This is Network News, Jessup County, Mississippi.
0:37:44 > 0:37:48I'll tell you what, tell you what y'all should be doin'.
0:37:48 > 0:37:53You ought to be looking up in Canada, instead of our swamps.
0:37:53 > 0:37:59I think this is a publicity stunt dreamt up by these NAACP people.
0:37:59 > 0:38:01- NAACP?- Yeah, NAACP.
0:38:01 > 0:38:07Know what it stands for? Niggers, Alligators, Apes, Coons and Possums.
0:38:07 > 0:38:14Tell you what you got. You got your NAACP, your SNCC, your COFO. Know what all that mess is?
0:38:14 > 0:38:18B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T. Got it?
0:38:18 > 0:38:20REPORTERS CONTINUE QUESTIONS
0:38:20 > 0:38:27YOUNG MAN: One day we won't have to say, "Good morning, sir, Mr Sheriff."
0:38:27 > 0:38:34Maybe one day we won't have to say "Mr Stuckey" - we'll just say "Stuckey"
0:38:34 > 0:38:39or "Sheriff", and one day the Sheriff won't even be a white man.
0:38:51 > 0:38:53Hello.
0:38:56 > 0:38:59Could I ask you a few questions?
0:38:59 > 0:39:03Can you tell me what these flowers are?
0:39:04 > 0:39:11I've been seeing them all over the place, and I never saw such a pretty plant.
0:39:11 > 0:39:13Trumpet-pitchers.
0:39:13 > 0:39:16Trumpet-pitchers.
0:39:16 > 0:39:18They're beautiful. They really are.
0:39:18 > 0:39:22They don't smell so good, but they're pretty!
0:39:25 > 0:39:30It was nice talking to you. Sorry to interrupt your meeting here.
0:39:30 > 0:39:35We just can't seen to get anybody to talk to us. They just ZIP up.
0:39:35 > 0:39:41- People are afraid that it'll get back to the law.- We ARE the law.
0:39:41 > 0:39:47- Not around here you ain't.- We were sent to find out about those boys.
0:39:47 > 0:39:51- They came to help you.- It ain't coloured folks you should talk to.
0:39:51 > 0:39:55- Who SHOULD we be talking to? - Come away.
0:39:57 > 0:40:00Try the Sheriff's Office.
0:40:01 > 0:40:06- Why aren't you afraid? - How come YOU ain't?
0:40:07 > 0:40:10Earl, come on, son.
0:40:22 > 0:40:26TV COMMENTARY: 'Here's the pitch. Swing!
0:40:26 > 0:40:28'Another runner's home.
0:40:29 > 0:40:32'On to the next pitch.
0:40:32 > 0:40:37'By the look of Bob Gibson he is upset. Arne Hunt's in the centre.
0:40:37 > 0:40:40'Hickman scored the best second run of the game.
0:40:40 > 0:40:44'Next one up is Joe Christopher.' DOORBELL RINGS
0:40:53 > 0:40:55Good evening.
0:40:55 > 0:41:04I'm Agent Ward. This is Agent Anderson. We're with the FBI. We'd like to talk to your husband.
0:41:05 > 0:41:07- <- Y'all come in now.
0:41:13 > 0:41:16The FBI gentlemen want to ask you some questions.
0:41:16 > 0:41:20- <- You want me to put your dinner in the oven?
0:41:22 > 0:41:24Leave us alone.
0:41:24 > 0:41:27Mind if I take a seat?
0:41:30 > 0:41:33Why are you bothering me at home?
0:41:33 > 0:41:40Well, I just want to run through your movements on June 21st again.
0:41:40 > 0:41:46- June which? - June 21st. Deputy, we both know what day we're talking about.
0:41:46 > 0:41:52Let's be civilised, then you can watch your ball game and we can go.
0:41:54 > 0:41:58MUTED VOICES >
0:42:00 > 0:42:01Oh.
0:42:01 > 0:42:05Please. Don't let me interrupt you.
0:42:05 > 0:42:11It's just, when you hear a question asked a dozen times, it gets boring.
0:42:11 > 0:42:13I guess so.
0:42:19 > 0:42:23- You don't eat together? - He works funny hours.
0:42:24 > 0:42:30- You think that's odd?- No. No, I...work funny hours myself.
0:42:33 > 0:42:40- I eat when I'm hungry. He eats when he can. Can I get you something? - No. Thanks. This is a nice house.
0:42:40 > 0:42:48- How long have you lived here? - I was BORN here. But my father lost the house in a poker game one night.
0:42:50 > 0:42:53We've been paying rent ever since!
0:42:55 > 0:42:57Wicked game.
0:43:00 > 0:43:02Poker.
0:43:02 > 0:43:04Wicked.
0:43:05 > 0:43:07- Mr Anderson.- >
0:43:07 > 0:43:12It's nice talking to you. Guess I've got to go.
0:43:17 > 0:43:21- Them pork chops still good? Bring me a beer.- Good night.
0:43:21 > 0:43:27Let you get back to the baseball. It's the only game where a black man can ...
0:43:27 > 0:43:30I know. I already heard that one.
0:43:35 > 0:43:42- Fifty minutes of his alibi hinges on his wife. What's she like? - She's a nice lady.
0:43:42 > 0:43:50- Tell me, how does a woman like that end up...?- With Shithead in there? You know what small towns are like.
0:43:50 > 0:43:57A girl spends her school years looking for a husband - and her life wondering why.
0:43:57 > 0:44:02- He's too confident.- Did you see the wedding photograph?- No.
0:44:02 > 0:44:04His three pals are ushers.
0:44:04 > 0:44:09They hook their fingers over their belts like that.
0:44:09 > 0:44:13- What is that? Some sort of masonic thing?- No.
0:44:13 > 0:44:15KKK.
0:44:18 > 0:44:22I know you ain't drunk.
0:44:25 > 0:44:29I'm just gonna take you where you can sleep it off.
0:44:29 > 0:44:32Hold up.
0:45:10 > 0:45:13TRAIN WHISTLE HOOTS
0:45:27 > 0:45:33- Hi. I, er, need to check a couple of things with you. - My husband's not here.
0:45:33 > 0:45:37Actually, it was YOU I wanted to talk to.
0:45:37 > 0:45:38Me?
0:45:38 > 0:45:42- Yeah.- OK. You'd better come in then.
0:45:46 > 0:45:54It'll just take a minute. My boss is a kind of a pain. A college kid! He has to dot all the i's!
0:45:54 > 0:46:01- What do you want to ask? - It's a TIME thing - something we're not clear about.
0:46:01 > 0:46:06- I'll put your flowers in water for you.- Actually, they're for you.
0:46:06 > 0:46:08They're beautiful.
0:46:09 > 0:46:14They are pretty. They don't smell so nice, but they are pretty.
0:46:14 > 0:46:18- Can I get you anything? Some tea?- Yeah. Thanks.
0:46:33 > 0:46:38- Oh, don't you look at that terrible photo.- Oh, I don't know about that.
0:46:39 > 0:46:42- Is this recent?- No, I wish.
0:46:42 > 0:46:48- This sure looks recent to me. - We were married 14 years ago.
0:46:48 > 0:46:50Are you kidding me? No!
0:46:50 > 0:46:52Go on!
0:46:52 > 0:46:55- You take sugar?- Sure do.
0:46:55 > 0:46:57I grew up in a town like this.
0:46:57 > 0:47:02- You were smart enough to leave. - Why didn't YOU?
0:47:02 > 0:47:05"For better or for worse"!
0:47:08 > 0:47:12- How about you? Are you married? - Two, please.
0:47:12 > 0:47:18Well, I WAS - as I remember. It didn't last very long. I was never home.
0:47:18 > 0:47:25She got fed up with phone calls from Miami and postcards from Des Moines.
0:47:25 > 0:47:31There was always a guy. Any guy who could spare the time for a movie,
0:47:31 > 0:47:34or a beer, or a quarter for the jukebox.
0:47:36 > 0:47:39She left!
0:47:41 > 0:47:43How about YOU?
0:47:43 > 0:47:50You know the South, Mr Anderson. You marry the first boy who makes you laugh.
0:47:51 > 0:47:54Hey. Your husband's quite a guy!
0:47:55 > 0:48:04You know, my boss has this THING about an hour. The 50 minutes that your husband says he was with you.
0:48:06 > 0:48:09And I guess he WAS.
0:48:09 > 0:48:11Guess he was.
0:48:13 > 0:48:15Well, that's a pity.
0:48:17 > 0:48:21I don't have an excuse to hang around now!
0:48:24 > 0:48:25Well...
0:48:25 > 0:48:30- Thank you for the iced tea. - Thank you for the flowers.
0:48:30 > 0:48:32Sure.
0:48:34 > 0:48:36Do you know what kind they are?
0:48:36 > 0:48:40A fella said they're trumpet-pitchers.
0:48:40 > 0:48:48- That's right. My daddy used to call them Ladies From Hell cos they're car...- Carnivorous!- That's a word?
0:48:48 > 0:48:53That colour's the bait. Insects just home on in there and they're dead
0:48:53 > 0:48:56before they got their shoes off.
0:48:59 > 0:49:04- Maybe I should have picked something more appropriate.- Maybe.
0:49:18 > 0:49:26# In His mercy and His grace
0:49:27 > 0:49:33# In the mansions bright and blessed
0:49:33 > 0:49:40# Keeping there for us a place...
0:49:40 > 0:49:49CONGREGATION JOINS IN: # When we all get to Heaven
0:49:49 > 0:49:57# What a day of rejoicing that will be
0:49:57 > 0:50:00# When we all
0:50:00 > 0:50:06# See Jesus
0:50:06 > 0:50:14# We'll sing and shout for victory. #
0:50:15 > 0:50:20'May the peace and joy of the Holy Ghost abide with you. Amen.'
0:50:25 > 0:50:28CHATTERING
0:50:32 > 0:50:35SCREAMING
0:50:36 > 0:50:47# When we all get to heaven
0:50:49 > 0:51:01# What a day of rejoicing that will be
0:51:01 > 0:51:10# When we all see Jesus
0:51:10 > 0:51:14# Jesus
0:51:14 > 0:51:21# We'll sing and shout for victory. #
0:51:25 > 0:51:29You've already been told once, nigger.
0:51:29 > 0:51:31I don't want to tell you again!
0:51:31 > 0:51:36You go flapping them boot-lips off to the Federal men -
0:51:36 > 0:51:41we're going to have to put you in the ground. Without a pine box.
0:51:41 > 0:51:44You understand me?
0:51:44 > 0:51:46AARGH!
0:51:51 > 0:51:53HE MOANS
0:51:55 > 0:51:59- How do you think the negroes are treated?- >
0:51:59 > 0:52:02They're treated as good as they oughta be.
0:52:08 > 0:52:12The niggers here have been treated awful bad for a long time.
0:52:22 > 0:52:26I think Martin Luther King is one of the leaders.
0:52:26 > 0:52:31J Edgar Hoover said he was a communist and they had proof.
0:52:31 > 0:52:35I haven't seen it myself, but it's what they say.
0:52:40 > 0:52:43SQUEALING
0:52:45 > 0:52:47THEY JEER
0:52:47 > 0:52:51Hey, you really want to find that nigger?
0:52:51 > 0:52:59They want us to eat with the niggers and use the same bathroom. That's hard for some Mississippi folk to do.
0:52:59 > 0:53:05They're not like us. They don't take baths. They stink. They're nasty.
0:53:05 > 0:53:07They're just not like white folks.
0:53:07 > 0:53:09SHOUTING >
0:53:11 > 0:53:15What do you think happened to the three boys?
0:53:15 > 0:53:16Dead.
0:53:17 > 0:53:20Just as dead as they can be.
0:53:20 > 0:53:23Feels so good!
0:53:25 > 0:53:28Is she asleep? Is she?
0:53:28 > 0:53:29Oh!
0:53:29 > 0:53:33- I'm sorry. I woke you up. - Hello, darling.
0:53:33 > 0:53:35Oh, yeah.
0:53:35 > 0:53:37I'll be a couple of hours.
0:53:37 > 0:53:40Mary, is that your Betsy's kid?
0:53:42 > 0:53:44She's growing up real quick.
0:53:53 > 0:53:56Tuesday is fine on those, Mary.
0:54:01 > 0:54:03Funny.
0:54:05 > 0:54:08Their kids are so cute.
0:54:13 > 0:54:15Is that thing back on me again?
0:54:15 > 0:54:23If the Secret Service couldn't protect the President, how are we supposed to protect a few niggers?
0:54:23 > 0:54:28It's just a bunch of low-life white trash drinking cheap alcohol.
0:54:28 > 0:54:35Or more like paint-thinner and snake juice, cos this state is as dry as a Martini.
0:54:35 > 0:54:37Give me a little room here.
0:54:37 > 0:54:40Excuse me. Excuse me.
0:54:40 > 0:54:42Is this OK?
0:54:42 > 0:54:47- Your name please?- > Clayton Townley, local businessman.
0:54:47 > 0:54:50- Are you a spokesman for the Ku Klux Klan?- >
0:54:50 > 0:54:53I told you. I'm a businessman.
0:54:53 > 0:54:57I am also a Mississippian and an American.
0:54:57 > 0:55:04I am getting sick and tired of the way that we are having views distorted by you newspapers and TV.
0:55:04 > 0:55:10Get this straight. We do not accept Jews because they reject Christ,
0:55:10 > 0:55:15and their control of the banks are at the root of communism today.
0:55:15 > 0:55:19We do not accept Papists and their Roman dictator.
0:55:19 > 0:55:23We do not accept Turks, Mongols, Tartars, Orientals nor Negroes -
0:55:23 > 0:55:29we're here to protect Anglo-Saxon democracy and the American Way.
0:55:29 > 0:55:32TALKING AND LAUGHING
0:55:32 > 0:55:37Lester, you are living proof that cousins shouldn't fuck! >
0:55:38 > 0:55:45I was trying to say - there was this coloured boy trying to play football for Barry Brown in Alabama. >
0:55:45 > 0:55:49Barry says, "I'm gonna give you a try."
0:55:49 > 0:55:51Is he going to run with a watermelon?
0:55:51 > 0:55:54He's going to keep running too!
0:55:54 > 0:55:57He says, "You go on one goal-line."
0:55:57 > 0:56:02He puts the WHOLE other team on the other goal-line and he says...
0:56:07 > 0:56:11- Are you open? - Only members can drink here.
0:56:11 > 0:56:12Member?
0:56:12 > 0:56:15A member of what?
0:56:16 > 0:56:22- A member of the Social Club. - Why don't you just buy me a beer?
0:56:24 > 0:56:26Give him a beer, Frank.
0:56:29 > 0:56:37Nice to be back in a dry county. When I was a sheriff, half my pay was from collecting taxes
0:56:37 > 0:56:39on the illegal juice.
0:56:39 > 0:56:45Is it the same here? You could make a tidy penny from the bootleggers.
0:56:45 > 0:56:50- I wouldn't know nothing about that. - Yeah. A tidy penny.
0:56:52 > 0:56:55Got anything stronger than this, Deputy?
0:56:55 > 0:56:57No, we ain't.
0:56:57 > 0:57:03No? In Thornton, Mississippi, there's a still in every yard.
0:57:05 > 0:57:09Well, all you need is some corn, sugar and a pot to boil it in.
0:57:09 > 0:57:17I tried to take fingerprints off a guy who had his hands in a mash barrel, but there's no skin on them.
0:57:17 > 0:57:23We're not interested in your stories. You ain't from here no more.
0:57:25 > 0:57:31- Why did you leave anyway?- Well, I just wanted a change of scenery.
0:57:31 > 0:57:35The grits were leaving a bad taste in my mouth.
0:57:35 > 0:57:41If that's how you feel, Mr FBI Man, why don't you drink that beer,
0:57:41 > 0:57:45and go back to your commie nigger-loving bosses?
0:57:45 > 0:57:51You can't know Mr Hoover. He don't like commies. He'd be on your side there.
0:57:51 > 0:57:58I don't give two shits whose side he's on. We've got 5,000 niggers in this county
0:57:58 > 0:58:01who ain't registered to vote yet.
0:58:01 > 0:58:09As far as I'm concerned, they never WILL. You can tell your stiff suits that they ain't going to change us.
0:58:09 > 0:58:13Unless it's over my dead body, or a lot of dead niggers.
0:58:17 > 0:58:20Are you saying you'd kill, Frank?
0:58:20 > 0:58:27I'd give it no more thought than wringing a cat's neck. No Mississippi court would convict me.
0:58:27 > 0:58:33- How about you, Deputy? How are you with wringing necks? - Just keep pushing me.
0:58:34 > 0:58:37Listen, you old fucker,
0:58:37 > 0:58:45you tell your queer-assed nigger bosses they're never gonna find them Civil Rights-ers. So, pack your bags.
0:58:45 > 0:58:47AARGH!
0:58:48 > 0:58:53- You shit-kicker. Don't go mistaking me for some whole other body.- AARGH!
0:58:53 > 0:58:59Your brains must be in your dick if you think we'll just fade away!
0:59:00 > 0:59:02How about you, Deputy?
0:59:04 > 0:59:10Is that gun just for show, or do you get to shoot people once in a while?
0:59:11 > 0:59:12AIEE!
0:59:17 > 0:59:20Thanks for the beer!
0:59:25 > 0:59:31< Do they want to save this country from the onslaught of integration?
0:59:31 > 0:59:38They want to put white children and coloured children into the melting pot,
0:59:38 > 0:59:44from out of which will come a conglomerated mulatto, MONGREL class of people!
0:59:44 > 0:59:49BOTH races will be destroyed in such a move!
0:59:49 > 0:59:55I will die before I yield one inch to that kind of a movement in Alabama.
0:59:55 > 0:59:58APPLAUSE
0:59:58 > 1:00:05Do you know what you've done? Townley's been on the radio all day talking about FBI intimidation!
1:00:05 > 1:00:09- We're going to do this MY way! - "Bureau Procedure"?
1:00:09 > 1:00:14Why were you at the beauty parlour? If it was business, I want to know.
1:00:14 > 1:00:19- If it wasn't, I won't allow it. Do you understand me?- Get in here!
1:00:21 > 1:00:28You don't know when to speak and when to SHUT UP! That makes you a fool!
1:00:28 > 1:00:32I'm not going to choke anything out of Mrs Pell.
1:00:32 > 1:00:36This can of worms only opens from the inside.
1:00:41 > 1:00:44I KNOW that.
1:00:50 > 1:00:51(Shit.)
1:00:51 > 1:00:53CHANTING: Freedom.
1:00:53 > 1:00:56GOSPEL MUSIC PLAYS
1:01:01 > 1:01:03JEERING >
1:01:08 > 1:01:10Freedom!
1:01:15 > 1:01:18Freedom!
1:01:25 > 1:01:27- 20 cents.- 20 cents?
1:01:36 > 1:01:39# Free him
1:01:39 > 1:01:41# Lord
1:01:41 > 1:01:45# Bear him
1:01:45 > 1:01:52# Seek not his favour
1:01:52 > 1:01:57# Tell him you're strong. #
1:02:06 > 1:02:07Hi!
1:02:07 > 1:02:09Hey, now!
1:02:09 > 1:02:12Just passing. Just saying hello.
1:02:12 > 1:02:18- Not watching the parade? - Your guys questioned everybody except me!
1:02:22 > 1:02:25Send some FBI boys to see me!
1:02:27 > 1:02:29Sorry about the intrusion.
1:02:29 > 1:02:33- Pecan?- I'm sick of pecans.
1:02:33 > 1:02:36MARCHERS CHANT: Freedom! Freedom!
1:02:39 > 1:02:42CHANTING DROWNS SPEECH
1:03:12 > 1:03:15How did you find out about this?
1:03:15 > 1:03:18Bureau procedure, Mr Ward.
1:03:29 > 1:03:31Sheriff Stuckey.
1:03:31 > 1:03:34He got HIS phone call.
1:03:36 > 1:03:39I wonder who else was called.
1:03:40 > 1:03:43Hold it, where you going, boy?
1:03:43 > 1:03:45Go on, get out of here.
1:04:00 > 1:04:03Here they come.
1:04:11 > 1:04:15- Come on. Let's go. - Wait until they go back inside.
1:04:15 > 1:04:17Get him!
1:04:17 > 1:04:19AAGH!
1:04:21 > 1:04:24Get him inside that truck!
1:04:24 > 1:04:26Get inside!
1:04:28 > 1:04:31- Let's GO!- WAIT!- GO! GO! Come on!
1:04:36 > 1:04:38Come on. Let's go. Come on.
1:04:38 > 1:04:40GO!
1:05:05 > 1:05:08RAILROAD CROSSING BELLS CLANG
1:05:11 > 1:05:14TRAIN CLAXON BLARES
1:05:22 > 1:05:24BRAKES SQUEAL
1:05:45 > 1:05:48- Left!- How do you know? - I don't. Turn left!
1:05:51 > 1:05:54- There's the truck.- Yeah.
1:05:54 > 1:05:57Go up that little road there.
1:06:00 > 1:06:03Come on. Stop. Through here.
1:06:15 > 1:06:17MOANS >
1:06:20 > 1:06:23CAR ROARS OFF
1:06:23 > 1:06:26GUNSHOTS
1:06:35 > 1:06:38What's wrong with these people?
1:06:46 > 1:06:52Mrs Walker, I know this is difficult for you, but I really need your help.
1:06:52 > 1:06:59If you could just persuade your son to press charges, then we could pick up the Deputy at least.
1:06:59 > 1:07:05- He won't talk to no-one. It won't do no good.- I promise you, it will.
1:07:05 > 1:07:11Leave him alone. Maybe then they'll let US alone.
1:07:21 > 1:07:28If this is a pattern, I guess at least we know what happened on June 21st.
1:07:28 > 1:07:31Pell stopped the three boys for speeding.
1:07:31 > 1:07:39He held them until the Klan was ready. He released them at ten. By that time his buddies were waiting.
1:07:39 > 1:07:42I'm sure Deputy Pell went with them.
1:07:42 > 1:07:47- Will he crack?- Down here they say rattlesnakes don't commit suicide.
1:07:56 > 1:08:04- Deputy Pell, did you release the Civil Rights workers into the hands of the Klan on June 21st?- No.
1:08:04 > 1:08:07- Are you a member of the Klan?- No.
1:08:07 > 1:08:11- Have you ever been a member of the Klan?- No.
1:08:11 > 1:08:15- Do you know the term, "Grand Cyclops"?- Yes.
1:08:15 > 1:08:23Were you the Grand Cyclops of the East Mississippi Clavern of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan?
1:08:23 > 1:08:28- Objection. My client has told you he is not a Klan member.- Objection?
1:08:28 > 1:08:32This is an interview. Such formality is unnecessary.
1:08:32 > 1:08:37I guess I don't have to stay here, do I? I've got work to do.
1:08:40 > 1:08:44- Guess you do too!- Yes, sir. And you can be sure we'll do it.
1:08:44 > 1:08:46Good luck!
1:08:48 > 1:08:51If you can indict me, come find me!
1:08:54 > 1:08:57- How did it go?- Just fine.
1:08:57 > 1:08:59Don't worry about a thing!
1:08:59 > 1:09:07REPORTERS FIRE QUESTIONS Does the FBI have evidence that the Sheriff's Office is involved?
1:09:07 > 1:09:10They don't have one iota of evidence.
1:09:10 > 1:09:16Do not do that, please. Sir! Do not do that, please!
1:09:16 > 1:09:18FRANK: Get the fuck out of here!
1:09:18 > 1:09:21SHOUTING AND SCREAMING
1:09:21 > 1:09:26FRANK: Go back where you belong! Get out of my face!
1:09:26 > 1:09:29FRANK: Get out and leave us alone!
1:09:29 > 1:09:31Leave us alone! >
1:09:31 > 1:09:35Go home, boy! You're going to get hurt now!
1:09:37 > 1:09:44- Mr Ward! This is getting to be more than we can take. - Not now, sir.- Now, wait!
1:09:44 > 1:09:51I resent your public pursuit of my Sheriff's department. You have made every effort to implicate them!
1:09:51 > 1:09:58- Your innuendos are not evidence they were connected to any crime. - WE'RE frustrated too!
1:09:58 > 1:10:06Pointing the finger is NOT evidence! We cotton choppers are still stupid enough to be believe in democracy.
1:10:06 > 1:10:13- We know our rights under the law! - You know SOMETHING. I'll bet on that.
1:10:13 > 1:10:18Anderson, you're so far up my nose, I can feel your boots on my chin!
1:10:18 > 1:10:26I'm telling you again that a couple of crazies dressed in bed sheets going round scaring negroes
1:10:26 > 1:10:29is not the entire state's fault!
1:10:29 > 1:10:32There are three dead kids out there,
1:10:32 > 1:10:36and a lot of scared people, so get used to seeing us.
1:10:36 > 1:10:42- Get used to my boots on your chin, too!- You people'd better back off!
1:10:42 > 1:10:46Goddamn FBI! Coming down here and harassing...
1:10:46 > 1:10:50- Do you have a statement? - You're damn right...
1:10:50 > 1:10:57For a moment there, Mr Anderson, it sounded like we were both on the same side!
1:11:24 > 1:11:27- Are you all right, honey? - I'm fine.
1:11:27 > 1:11:30- Let me know if you need anything. - Thanks!
1:12:22 > 1:12:26A VEHICLE APPROACHES >
1:12:50 > 1:12:52Daddy! Momma!
1:13:07 > 1:13:11There's no sign of him, sir. He's long gone.
1:13:11 > 1:13:15His mother won't talk to us. Won't even answer the door.
1:13:15 > 1:13:22- Somebody saw something. - They won't talk. - Get going. Shake it out of them.
1:13:26 > 1:13:30BIRD: All right. Let's go. Every house. Come on.
1:13:36 > 1:13:37What?
1:13:37 > 1:13:43Sending all these white guys around with notebooks will get you nowhere.
1:13:43 > 1:13:46OK. What would YOU do?
1:13:50 > 1:13:52It's OK to be afraid.
1:14:00 > 1:14:05Go on, Willie. Tell them what you saw.
1:14:10 > 1:14:13WHISTLING
1:14:36 > 1:14:39'The defendants will rise.'
1:14:42 > 1:14:45In this country, a man's home is his castle.
1:14:45 > 1:14:53That is one of the principles by which this community survives. You have done violence to that principle.
1:14:53 > 1:14:58But I want you to know that the court understands
1:14:58 > 1:15:01that your crimes have been, to some extent,
1:15:01 > 1:15:05brought about by OUTSIDE influences.
1:15:05 > 1:15:07CROWD MURMURS
1:15:13 > 1:15:17Outsiders have come into Jessup County.
1:15:17 > 1:15:21They've been people of low morality,
1:15:21 > 1:15:27and unhygienic. Their presence here has provoked a lot of people.
1:15:29 > 1:15:34So, the court understands, without condoning them, mind you,
1:15:34 > 1:15:40that the crimes to which you men pleaded guilty were, to some extent,
1:15:40 > 1:15:45provoked by these outside influences. RAISED VOICES
1:15:47 > 1:15:51With all this, I'm going to make your punishment light.
1:15:51 > 1:15:55I sentence you each to five years' imprisonment...
1:15:57 > 1:16:01..but I'm going to SUSPEND the sentences.
1:16:01 > 1:16:04CHEERING
1:16:35 > 1:16:37You can't go in there, sir.
1:16:37 > 1:16:42- FBI. Let us through. - Sorry, sir, you can't go in there.
1:16:47 > 1:16:48Sheriff!
1:16:52 > 1:16:54You've really started something.
1:16:54 > 1:16:59- Move the cars. I want to go in. - No. This is as far as you're going.
1:16:59 > 1:17:03- We can handle it. - Just a bunch of crazy coloureds.
1:17:03 > 1:17:05Local problem.
1:17:19 > 1:17:25Look at those flames. It's why they sent you down here, wasn't it?
1:17:25 > 1:17:28- It would have happened, anyway. - Yeah, sure.
1:17:28 > 1:17:33If I was a negro, I'd probably think the way they do.
1:17:33 > 1:17:36Nobody would give a damn WHAT you thought.
1:17:39 > 1:17:41BARKING
1:17:44 > 1:17:47HORSES WHINNY
1:18:06 > 1:18:09CATTLE LOW
1:18:17 > 1:18:20CATTLE BELLOW
1:18:32 > 1:18:37Earl. Earl. Get your momma, your grandma and the children out.
1:18:37 > 1:18:41When you hit the road, keep going. Keep going.
1:18:42 > 1:18:45Nathan! Come on. Get up, Nathan!
1:18:45 > 1:18:49- Come on. Get up, Nathan. - What's happening?- >
1:18:49 > 1:18:52Momma. Come on, Momma! Let's go!
1:18:54 > 1:18:57- Come on, y'all!- Get out, child.
1:18:57 > 1:18:59Grandma! >
1:18:59 > 1:19:01Go!
1:19:01 > 1:19:03GOSPEL MUSIC PLAYS
1:19:10 > 1:19:15- Come on, Momma. Move it, Grandmomma. - Where we going?
1:19:15 > 1:19:18Who's there?
1:19:18 > 1:19:20If you're in there, come out.
1:19:20 > 1:19:23I ain't taking this shit no more!
1:19:23 > 1:19:26ANIMALS BELLOW
1:20:25 > 1:20:27It's OK, Poppa.
1:20:27 > 1:20:30Everything's going to be fine.
1:20:30 > 1:20:35They just cracked your head. Keep breathing. Don't go dying on me now.
1:20:35 > 1:20:38You hear me?
1:20:38 > 1:20:41It'll be just fine.
1:20:47 > 1:20:50BUZZING FLIES
1:21:06 > 1:21:09Cows won't run away.
1:21:09 > 1:21:15No-one knows why. They just stand there until their bellies go pop.
1:21:15 > 1:21:19They have relatives in Detroit.
1:21:19 > 1:21:21Are they gonna go?
1:21:21 > 1:21:24I didn't give them any choice.
1:21:25 > 1:21:29- At least we know who did this. - WE did.
1:21:29 > 1:21:34It's progress. 20 years ago they'd have lynched them for stealing food.
1:21:34 > 1:21:39I don't understand you, Mr Anderson. Not at all.
1:21:39 > 1:21:46Let's get something straight. This was fucked up the moment we turned this into a show for the newsmen!
1:21:46 > 1:21:54- The moment those kids vanished, it WAS news.- The CIVIL RIGHTS WORKERS were news. To me, they're just kids.
1:21:54 > 1:22:01- They're STILL missing. - What's missing is the time Pell spent with his wife.
1:22:05 > 1:22:06OK.
1:22:19 > 1:22:21OK.
1:22:21 > 1:22:23I LOVE Mississippi.
1:22:23 > 1:22:26CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
1:22:35 > 1:22:36They...
1:22:36 > 1:22:39They HATE Mississippi.
1:22:39 > 1:22:47They hate us because we present a shining example of successful segregation.
1:22:47 > 1:22:52These northern students, with their atheist communist bosses
1:22:52 > 1:22:56came to our community to destroy it,
1:22:56 > 1:22:59and have taken a terrible blow this week.
1:22:59 > 1:23:03This week, their cause has been crippled.
1:23:03 > 1:23:10This week, these Federal policemen that you see prying into our lives, violating our civil liberties,
1:23:10 > 1:23:18have learned that they are powerless if EVERY SINGLE Anglo-Saxon Christian one of us STANDS TOGETHER!
1:23:18 > 1:23:21CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
1:23:26 > 1:23:28We've got company, sir.
1:23:28 > 1:23:33- This is a political meeting. - Doesn't smell that way.
1:23:33 > 1:23:39- It's a goddamn political meeting. - It LOOKS like one, but SMELLS more like Klan.
1:23:41 > 1:23:44Without the Hallowe'en costumes.
1:23:44 > 1:23:46Gentlemen.
1:23:46 > 1:23:49In the courts of Mississippi, >
1:23:49 > 1:23:54they have been reminded that they cannot force us to have replicas
1:23:54 > 1:23:59of their communities - communities where negroes run riot,
1:23:59 > 1:24:01unrestrained and unpunished,
1:24:01 > 1:24:06as they do on the streets of Haarlem, of Oakland and of Chicago!
1:25:12 > 1:25:15HE TAPS ON THE DOOR
1:25:23 > 1:25:26Can I come in?
1:25:34 > 1:25:37It's not good for you to be here.
1:25:37 > 1:25:38Why?
1:25:38 > 1:25:40It's ugly.
1:25:40 > 1:25:46The whole thing is ugly. Do you know what it's like to live with this?
1:25:47 > 1:25:51People look at us and only see bigots
1:25:51 > 1:25:53and racists.
1:25:54 > 1:25:59Hatred isn't something you're born with - it gets taught.
1:26:00 > 1:26:05At school they said segregation was what was said in the Bible.
1:26:06 > 1:26:08Genesis 9,
1:26:08 > 1:26:10verse 27.
1:26:13 > 1:26:18At seven years age, you get told it enough times, you believe it.
1:26:19 > 1:26:22You believe their hatred.
1:26:23 > 1:26:26You live it. You breathe it.
1:26:28 > 1:26:31You MARRY it.
1:26:59 > 1:27:03- My husband drove one of the cars that night.- Ssh.
1:27:03 > 1:27:07That's what you want to hear, isn't it?
1:27:07 > 1:27:10The bodies are buried on the Roberts' farm.
1:27:10 > 1:27:13In an earthen dam.
1:27:15 > 1:27:18SHE SOBS
1:27:30 > 1:27:31Sir!
1:27:44 > 1:27:46Take a break, Mr Bird.
1:27:46 > 1:27:50Put some handkerchiefs around your faces.
1:27:51 > 1:27:53RETCHING
1:27:56 > 1:27:59HUBBUB OF ACTIVITY
1:28:01 > 1:28:03Here.
1:28:07 > 1:28:10Lift it together. Get in there.
1:28:17 > 1:28:20The bodies of the three missing men
1:28:20 > 1:28:23were discovered at an undisclosed grave.
1:28:24 > 1:28:29Neither the FBI nor the Sheriff's Office will comment.
1:28:29 > 1:28:33The bodies have been brought to the county hospital.
1:28:33 > 1:28:38It is expected that an autopsy will be performed later tonight.
1:28:40 > 1:28:43Keep it open. Coming through.
1:28:43 > 1:28:45Open it up.
1:28:46 > 1:28:49Hold back.
1:29:07 > 1:29:10Clinton, you got some problems at home.
1:29:10 > 1:29:12What?
1:29:12 > 1:29:16Pull your head out of your ass and get home!
1:29:16 > 1:29:22TV: I, Vincent Thompson, am the cheese champion of the world.
1:29:22 > 1:29:28'In an international competition, my cheese won first prize based on flavour, texture...'
1:29:28 > 1:29:31DOOR OPENS
1:29:34 > 1:29:38Hi, Clinton. I didn't expect you home so early.
1:29:38 > 1:29:41Hi, Frank.
1:29:44 > 1:29:46Agh!
1:29:47 > 1:29:48Oh!
1:29:52 > 1:29:55I'm sorry. I'm SORRY! Aargh!
1:29:57 > 1:30:01POUNDING BLOWS
1:30:07 > 1:30:09Sir.
1:30:11 > 1:30:13Say again.
1:30:13 > 1:30:16I'll be right there.
1:30:21 > 1:30:26- Mr Bird?- Yes, sir. - Get five men and meet me outside.
1:30:28 > 1:30:31- Where's Anderson?- He's at the motel.
1:30:35 > 1:30:42- You two take the front door. Stop anyone getting past. You take the corridor. Mr Bird.- Sir.
1:30:44 > 1:30:51OK. Bring Anderson here. Don't tell him why. Don't tell him anything. Just get him here.
1:31:21 > 1:31:23Mr Anderson. Stop!
1:31:23 > 1:31:29- Mr Anderson!- Go to hell. - I'm telling you to stop! We're not killers.
1:31:29 > 1:31:33- That's why we are different to them. - YOU'RE different!
1:31:33 > 1:31:40- YOU'RE not like them.- Wrong! Why do you care what I do to that son of a bitch? You've got a WORLD to change!
1:31:40 > 1:31:47- Right!- You're arrogant and stupid! - YOU'RE making changes too. - I will now!
1:31:47 > 1:31:52Don't mess this up because you like fooling around with witnesses.
1:32:00 > 1:32:08- It don't mean shit to have a gun unless you use it!- I'll kill you, if you won't listen.- Fuck you!
1:32:08 > 1:32:11Let me go.
1:32:11 > 1:32:16- We'll go after all of them - TOGETHER.- You wouldn't know how!
1:32:16 > 1:32:22- Then teach me! - You don't have the guts. - I have the guts AND the authority.
1:32:22 > 1:32:29- What does that mean?- No rules. We nail him any way we can - even your way.
1:32:29 > 1:32:33- Is this you talking? Or some guy pulling your strings?- Both.
1:32:33 > 1:32:39- We do it MY way.- Your way. - With MY people.- Whatever it takes.
1:32:40 > 1:32:41OK.
1:32:47 > 1:32:50Give me a minute.
1:32:56 > 1:33:03- You think he would have shot me? - Oh, yes, sir. - Ballsy little bastard, isn't he?
1:33:11 > 1:33:16They want me to say, let us not forget the two white boys who died
1:33:16 > 1:33:20helping negroes help themselves. ALL: Amen!
1:33:20 > 1:33:28They want me to say that we mourn with the mothers of these white boys. ALL: Amen!
1:33:30 > 1:33:38But the state of Mississippi won't allow those boys to be buried in the same cemetery as this negro boy.
1:33:39 > 1:33:44'I say, "I have no more love to give!"
1:33:44 > 1:33:48'I have only ANGER in my heart today!
1:33:48 > 1:33:51'And I want you to be angry WITH me.
1:33:51 > 1:33:57'I am sick and I am tired and I want you to be sick and tired with me.
1:33:57 > 1:34:02'I...I...I am sick and tired of going to the funerals of black men
1:34:02 > 1:34:05'who have been MURDERED by white men.
1:34:05 > 1:34:11'I am sick and tired of the people who ALLOW these things to happen.
1:34:11 > 1:34:17'What is an "inalienable right" if you are a negro?
1:34:17 > 1:34:21'What is equal treatment under the law?
1:34:21 > 1:34:25'What does it mean "Liberty and Justice for all"?
1:34:25 > 1:34:30'Now, I say to these people,
1:34:30 > 1:34:35'"Look at the face of this young man. You will see the face of a black man,
1:34:35 > 1:34:38'"but his blood is red like yours.
1:34:38 > 1:34:42'"It is JUST LIKE YOURS!"'
1:35:48 > 1:35:50CRICKETS CHIRP
1:36:07 > 1:36:09You...
1:36:11 > 1:36:14I'm gonna tell you a story.
1:36:14 > 1:36:20A young kid, name of Homer Wilkes, lives about 30 miles north of here.
1:36:20 > 1:36:24He was just walking home along the road.
1:36:25 > 1:36:27A car pulled up.
1:36:27 > 1:36:31Three white boys took him for a ride.
1:36:34 > 1:36:36Now...
1:36:36 > 1:36:40he hadn't done anything.
1:36:41 > 1:36:42Except...
1:36:44 > 1:36:47..be a negro.
1:36:48 > 1:36:51And they took him to a shack,
1:36:51 > 1:36:55a shack like...like this one,
1:36:55 > 1:36:58and they took out a razor blade.
1:36:58 > 1:37:02A regular old razor blade - like this one.
1:37:04 > 1:37:07And they pulled down his pants...
1:37:09 > 1:37:12..they spread his legs...
1:37:13 > 1:37:16..and sliced off his scrotum.
1:37:19 > 1:37:22They put it in a coffee cup.
1:37:26 > 1:37:31Do you know how much you bleed when somebody cuts off your BALLS?
1:37:31 > 1:37:32HUH?
1:37:36 > 1:37:41When they found Homer, he looked like he'd been dipped in blood.
1:37:41 > 1:37:48He was barely alive when they got him to the hospital. He can hardly walk now.
1:37:57 > 1:38:03Mayor, we know you know who was there when those three boys were murdered.
1:38:04 > 1:38:07We know you know who pulled the trigger.
1:38:07 > 1:38:11HE STRUGGLES TO SPEAK
1:38:12 > 1:38:15Is there something you want to say?
1:38:20 > 1:38:22OK.
1:38:27 > 1:38:31- Is he with the Bureau? - Yeah. He's a kind of specialist.
1:38:31 > 1:38:36- Are you sure Tilman won't talk? - Not a chance!- What do you have?
1:38:36 > 1:38:41There were three cars. Seven men. Pell and Bailey did the killing.
1:38:41 > 1:38:49- Stuckey?- He knew about it, but he's smart. Pell pulled the trigger for him.- And Townley?- It was his idea.
1:38:49 > 1:38:55- Grand dragons don't get their hands dirty. - The whole thing - bullet by bullet.
1:38:55 > 1:39:03I don't suppose you're interested in the words "coercion" or "duress"? This is no good in court!
1:39:03 > 1:39:10We're not IN court. We'd never get them on murder, anyway - that's a State charge.
1:39:10 > 1:39:13- They'll never prosecute.- I know.
1:39:13 > 1:39:20- We have to get them on violation of civil rights.- Remember whose rights YOU'VE violated!- Get off your perch!
1:39:20 > 1:39:27- Don't drag me into your gutter! - These people crawled out of a sewer. Maybe we SHOULD be in the gutter.
1:39:33 > 1:39:35Thank you.
1:39:58 > 1:40:01This had better be important.
1:40:07 > 1:40:10Who the hell called this meeting?
1:40:12 > 1:40:16- We thought YOU did. - Of this group? Are you stupid?
1:40:16 > 1:40:22- You didn't call this? Shit! Well, who the fuck did?- Shut up!
1:40:22 > 1:40:25- Is this some set-up?- Lester.
1:40:25 > 1:40:28Ray, I got a note from my wife,
1:40:28 > 1:40:31from you and Clinton.
1:40:31 > 1:40:33Lester, shut up!
1:40:34 > 1:40:41Now...we're all going to walk straight out of here and say nothing.
1:40:41 > 1:40:45That means nothing, Lester, or you're dead.
1:40:45 > 1:40:46Shut up!
1:40:47 > 1:40:49Clinton...
1:40:52 > 1:40:54Clinton.
1:40:58 > 1:41:02The rattlesnakes are starting to commit suicide!
1:41:27 > 1:41:29Hi, Lester.
1:41:34 > 1:41:38We'll give you that ride home.
1:41:38 > 1:41:39What?
1:41:39 > 1:41:47- You said 4.30, but we're running late, so I'll meet you at the car. - You're cracked.
1:41:48 > 1:41:52- Do you have change of 20?- Sure.
1:41:59 > 1:42:05- Agh!- Get in the car, or you'll have nothing left after this drawer shuts.
1:42:08 > 1:42:15- Lester, you can make it a lot easier on yourself by going on the record.- I got nothing to say.
1:42:15 > 1:42:18You're barking up the wrong tree.
1:42:18 > 1:42:24Let me tell you, we've got you cold. Your buddies have already talked.
1:42:25 > 1:42:27Liar.
1:42:32 > 1:42:34You're in trouble.
1:42:34 > 1:42:42- We know you drove the green truck. And your buddy says - refresh my memory, Mr Bird.- Yes, sir.
1:42:42 > 1:42:45"Cowens kicked the negro, then shot him."
1:42:45 > 1:42:48- That's a lie.- No, it's true. What else?
1:42:48 > 1:42:54"Cowens said, 'They only left me a nigger, but at least I shot me a nigger.'"
1:42:55 > 1:43:00- I didn't kill him. I only shot him in the ass.- We know that.
1:43:00 > 1:43:05He's already dead by the time you put a slug in him.
1:43:05 > 1:43:10But your buddy says that YOU killed the kid. Go on the record right now,
1:43:10 > 1:43:15or it'll be YOUR ass we're talking about - not just a black kid's.
1:43:26 > 1:43:31Think about it, Lester. Come on out of there.
1:43:33 > 1:43:35Come out.
1:44:16 > 1:44:19This is tricky!
1:44:19 > 1:44:22They make it look so easy, don't they?
1:44:23 > 1:44:26I got a question for you.
1:44:26 > 1:44:29Do you mind if I call you Clinton?
1:44:29 > 1:44:32I feel like I know you so well.
1:44:34 > 1:44:38We have it that, on the night of the murders,
1:44:38 > 1:44:42you made a speech as they buried the kids.
1:44:42 > 1:44:48How does Lester tell it? "You've struck a blow for the white man."
1:44:48 > 1:44:52- Is that what you said, Clinton? - Hm?
1:44:52 > 1:44:55Is that what you said?
1:44:55 > 1:45:01It had to be you because Townley and Stuckey were too smart to be there.
1:45:01 > 1:45:06You were too stupid to think anyone would remember what you had to say.
1:45:06 > 1:45:09But old Lester's got a good memory.
1:45:13 > 1:45:17I'm sorry. I haven't done this for a long time.
1:45:17 > 1:45:22Did you make a speech the night you beat up your wife, Clinton?
1:45:22 > 1:45:25Hmm? Did you?
1:45:25 > 1:45:30Did you strike a blow for the white man that night? Eh?
1:45:32 > 1:45:37You've got a stupid smile, do you know that, Pell? Can you see it?
1:45:38 > 1:45:43Did you smile when the bulldozer ran over the black kid's body? EH?!
1:45:47 > 1:45:51Did you smile when the bodies were covered?
1:45:51 > 1:45:53Get up. Come on. Get up.
1:45:53 > 1:45:58Did you smile that same stupid smile? DID YOU?!
1:45:59 > 1:46:02< CRASHING
1:46:02 > 1:46:07- <- Did you smile, Pell? DID YOU?! - CLATTERING
1:46:07 > 1:46:09- <- Did you?
1:46:15 > 1:46:22Make no mistake, Deputy. I'll cut your fucking head off and not give a shit what the report sheet says.
1:46:41 > 1:46:44BABY CRIES
1:46:44 > 1:46:47One more bite. Come on, babe.
1:46:47 > 1:46:50One more bite, darlin'.
1:47:06 > 1:47:08What the fuck is going on?!
1:47:08 > 1:47:13Shut up! Get in the bedroom and lock the door! Stay away from the windows!
1:47:24 > 1:47:25Shit!
1:48:25 > 1:48:27Bring him over here.
1:48:27 > 1:48:31I didn't say a thing. I swear. It's a set-up!
1:48:31 > 1:48:34It's a set-up. I didn't do nothing!
1:48:35 > 1:48:40NOTHING! I didn't say nothing! I didn't say nothing!
1:48:46 > 1:48:49I didn't say nothing!
1:49:00 > 1:49:02< GUNSHOTS
1:49:07 > 1:49:11You're lucky we've been watching your ass.
1:49:13 > 1:49:17If you go on the record, we'll give you protection.
1:49:17 > 1:49:19If not...
1:49:19 > 1:49:23If not, they're going to kill you, anyway.
1:49:23 > 1:49:24Phew!
1:49:24 > 1:49:27You need a toilet, Lester.
1:49:50 > 1:49:53- That really had him going! - Sure did!
1:50:19 > 1:50:21CLAMOUR OF VOICES
1:50:35 > 1:50:38We'll get the cheque, Mr Swilley.
1:50:38 > 1:50:41Come this way, sir.
1:50:58 > 1:51:00DRAMATIC MUSIC DROWNS SPEECH
1:51:13 > 1:51:15Button up, Wesley.
1:52:27 > 1:52:32Why did he do it? He wasn't even in on it.
1:52:32 > 1:52:34Wasn't even Klan.
1:52:35 > 1:52:42He was guilty. Anyone's guilty who watches this happen and pretends it isn't.
1:52:42 > 1:52:43No.
1:52:43 > 1:52:46He was guilty, all right.
1:52:46 > 1:52:51Just as guilty as the fanatics who pulled the trigger.
1:52:51 > 1:52:54Maybe we ALL are.
1:53:45 > 1:53:47Hello!
1:53:49 > 1:53:51Yeah.
1:53:56 > 1:54:01I just missed you at the hospital. They said you'd gone home.
1:54:01 > 1:54:04What's left of it.
1:54:04 > 1:54:06I'm sorry.
1:54:06 > 1:54:09Mmm, so am I.
1:54:09 > 1:54:13- What are you going to do? - I don't know.
1:54:15 > 1:54:20- Where will you go?- I'm not going. I'm staying. This is my home.
1:54:20 > 1:54:24I was born here. I'll probably die here!
1:54:28 > 1:54:32If I'd wanted to leave, I'd have done it a long time ago.
1:54:32 > 1:54:37Enough good people here know what I did was right.
1:54:37 > 1:54:41Enough ladies like the way I fix their hair.
1:54:56 > 1:54:57Hey.
1:54:59 > 1:55:04If you're ever in Des Moines, don't send me a postcard.
1:55:16 > 1:55:24# We cannot see in the future
1:55:24 > 1:55:28# No. No. No. No. No.
1:55:28 > 1:55:39# And it's hard to smile through trials
1:55:39 > 1:55:47# No, we cannot see
1:55:47 > 1:55:54# Every pitfall
1:55:54 > 1:56:02# But we must walk on by faith
1:56:02 > 1:56:05# Each day
1:56:05 > 1:56:07# Oh, Lord
1:56:07 > 1:56:13# Oh, on Monday...
1:56:13 > 1:56:18ALL: # Walk on
1:56:18 > 1:56:20# And on Tuesday...
1:56:20 > 1:56:24ALL: # Walk on
1:56:24 > 1:56:35# Let Jesus be your guide Let Jesus, let Him be your guide
1:56:35 > 1:56:40# Whoooh He's able
1:56:40 > 1:56:44# To carry your load And He can see
1:56:44 > 1:56:48# And see way down the road
1:56:48 > 1:56:51# Ooooh Walk on
1:56:51 > 1:56:54# By faith... #
1:56:54 > 1:56:56Want to drive, Rupert?
1:56:59 > 1:57:00Yeah.
1:57:03 > 1:57:05# On Monday...
1:57:05 > 1:57:09ALL: # Walk on
1:57:09 > 1:57:13# And on Tuesday Walk on
1:57:13 > 1:57:27# Let Jesus be your guide Let Jesus, let Him be your guide
1:57:27 > 1:57:33# He's able to carry your load To carry your load
1:57:33 > 1:57:40# And He can see way And see way down the road
1:57:40 > 1:57:42# Walk on
1:57:42 > 1:57:46# By faith
1:57:46 > 1:57:50# Each day... #
1:57:52 > 1:57:57# Don't worry and don't you fret
1:57:57 > 1:58:02# There's hope for today and tomorrow
1:58:02 > 1:58:06# God's got a way, yeah out of every single problem
1:58:06 > 1:58:09# Walk on, each day
1:58:09 > 1:58:14# Take a rest it's gonna be all right
1:58:14 > 1:58:19# We can change things keep facing other times
1:58:19 > 1:58:23# Mountains we can move with the faith in God
1:58:23 > 1:58:26# Walk on, each day
1:58:26 > 1:58:32# On Monday, and on Tuesday # Walk on, walk on
1:58:32 > 1:58:37# Let Jesus be your guide
1:58:37 > 1:58:45# He is able to carry your load Walk on! Walk on by faith
1:58:45 > 1:58:49# Every day, He's there
1:58:49 > 1:58:54# Hold your head up you got a way out in Jesus
1:58:54 > 1:58:58# You got Jesus He'll be your guide
1:58:58 > 1:59:01# He's able He can carry your load
1:59:01 > 1:59:05# Walk on, walk on hold your head up and walk on
1:59:05 > 1:59:11# In the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus
1:59:11 > 1:59:16# He's everything everything you need is in Jesus
1:59:16 > 1:59:20# Hold on to the name of Jesus
1:59:20 > 1:59:24# Hold on to the power that's in His name... #