1 00:00:28,204 --> 00:00:34,710 "Precious Lord" 2 00:00:36,045 --> 00:00:42,301 "Take my hand" 3 00:00:44,261 --> 00:00:53,646 "Lead me on" 4 00:00:54,772 --> 00:01:00,402 "Let me stand" 5 00:01:01,153 --> 00:01:07,409 "I am tired" 6 00:01:08,494 --> 00:01:14,750 "I am weak" 7 00:01:16,293 --> 00:01:24,217 "I am worn" 8 00:01:26,637 --> 00:01:36,646 "Through the storm" 9 00:01:37,356 --> 00:01:47,783 "Through the night" 10 00:01:49,409 --> 00:01:58,793 "Lead me on" 11 00:02:00,545 --> 00:02:05,133 "Through the night" 12 00:02:06,384 --> 00:02:10,930 "Take my hand" 13 00:02:11,973 --> 00:02:17,937 "Precious Lord" 14 00:02:18,980 --> 00:02:25,862 "And lead" 15 00:02:26,279 --> 00:02:31,075 "Me home" 16 00:02:32,994 --> 00:02:37,457 "Take my hand" 17 00:02:38,750 --> 00:02:48,551 "Precious Lord" 18 00:02:49,177 --> 00:02:56,184 "And lead" 19 00:02:56,642 --> 00:03:04,358 "Me home" 20 00:05:00,515 --> 00:05:02,392 uh-oh. 21 00:05:04,853 --> 00:05:07,355 What is it ? 22 00:05:11,109 --> 00:05:13,820 - What do they want ? - I don't know. 23 00:05:15,780 --> 00:05:19,325 Just pass me. Pass me. 24 00:05:24,873 --> 00:05:28,001 - Is it a cop ? - I can't see. 25 00:05:29,544 --> 00:05:33,965 - What the fuck are they playin' at ? - They ain't playin'. You better believe it. 26 00:05:44,892 --> 00:05:48,354 - What are we gonna do ? - I don't know. 27 00:05:53,943 --> 00:05:56,029 OK. Hold on, you guys. 28 00:06:07,248 --> 00:06:09,876 There's a truck too. 29 00:06:25,933 --> 00:06:28,352 Shit. It is a cop. 30 00:06:30,271 --> 00:06:32,314 You better stop. 31 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:36,777 OK. Sit tight, you guys. Don't say anything. Let me talk. 32 00:06:38,070 --> 00:06:41,198 All right ? We'll be all right. Just relax. 33 00:07:18,277 --> 00:07:21,113 Y'all think you can drive any speed you want around here ? 34 00:07:21,196 --> 00:07:23,282 You had us scared to death, man. 35 00:07:23,365 --> 00:07:27,744 - Don't you call me "man", Jew-boy. - No, sir. What should I call you ? 36 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:32,499 You don't call me nothin', nigger-lovin' Jew-boy. You just listen. 37 00:07:33,625 --> 00:07:35,711 Yes, sir. 38 00:07:36,878 --> 00:07:41,300 Hell, you even startin' to smell like a nigger, Jew-boy. 39 00:07:41,383 --> 00:07:45,220 - Take it easy. We'll be all right. - Sure you will, nigger-lover. 40 00:07:45,303 --> 00:07:49,599 He's seen your face. That ain't good. You don't want him seein' your face. 41 00:07:49,683 --> 00:07:53,228 Oh, it don't make no difference no more. 42 00:07:56,565 --> 00:08:01,236 Whoa, shit ! We into it now, boys. 43 00:08:01,319 --> 00:08:04,614 You only left me a nigger, but at least I shot me a nigger. 44 00:08:07,325 --> 00:08:09,411 Yes, indeed. 45 00:08:33,309 --> 00:08:36,437 "Now listen, you communists and niggers and Jews" 46 00:08:36,521 --> 00:08:39,149 "Tell all your buddies to spread the news" 47 00:08:39,232 --> 00:08:42,610 "Your Day of Judgment will soon be nigh" 48 00:08:42,694 --> 00:08:45,613 "As the Lord in his wisdom looks down from on high" 49 00:08:46,447 --> 00:08:49,284 "Will his battle be lost by mixin' the races ?" 50 00:08:49,576 --> 00:08:53,663 "We want beautiful babies, not ones with brown faces" 51 00:08:53,746 --> 00:08:56,541 "Never, never, never, I say" 52 00:08:56,624 --> 00:08:58,751 "For the Ku Klux Klan is here to stay" 53 00:08:58,835 --> 00:09:00,920 "Never, never, never, I say" 54 00:09:01,004 --> 00:09:04,215 "Cause the Ku Klux Klan is here to stay" 55 00:09:04,298 --> 00:09:07,593 These Ku Kluxers are better with lynchings than with lyrics. 56 00:09:07,677 --> 00:09:12,515 Just read the file, Mr Anderson. I can do without the cabaret. 57 00:09:12,598 --> 00:09:15,726 - You don't like me much, do you, boss ? - Sure I like you. 58 00:09:15,977 --> 00:09:19,397 I just don't share your sense of humour. 59 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:21,983 Sometimes that's all you got left. 60 00:09:22,066 --> 00:09:25,194 - How long you been in the Bureau ? - Three years. 61 00:09:25,278 --> 00:09:29,240 - Right outta college, huh ? - No. From the Justice Department. 62 00:09:30,283 --> 00:09:32,660 Kennedy boy. Now I see. 63 00:09:33,411 --> 00:09:36,580 No. I don't think you do see. 64 00:09:36,664 --> 00:09:39,208 Let's get this thing straight. 65 00:09:39,291 --> 00:09:42,795 I haven't had a pimple in years. I shave every morning. 66 00:09:42,878 --> 00:09:47,091 I even go to the bathroom by myself. So you can quit this "boss" stuff. 67 00:09:48,134 --> 00:09:51,220 I'm in charge because I've been through this before. 68 00:09:51,303 --> 00:09:56,308 - Birmingham ? Montgomery ? - Oxford. I was with Meredith at Old Miss. 69 00:09:56,392 --> 00:10:00,354 Oh. You got hit in the head with a brick, so they gave you a promotion. 70 00:10:00,437 --> 00:10:02,565 No. Shot in the shoulder. 71 00:10:04,108 --> 00:10:09,822 - Well, at least you lived. That's important. - Meredith lived. That's what's important. 72 00:10:17,329 --> 00:10:20,999 What's got four eyes and can't see ? 73 00:10:21,083 --> 00:10:23,794 - What ? - Mississippi. 74 00:10:25,838 --> 00:10:28,257 "Never, never, never, I say" 75 00:10:28,340 --> 00:10:31,593 "Cause the Ku Klux Klan is here to..." 76 00:11:04,501 --> 00:11:07,420 - Big building for a small town. - Yeah. 77 00:11:11,299 --> 00:11:13,385 Howdy. 78 00:11:45,583 --> 00:11:48,711 Good morning. My name's Alan Ward. 79 00:11:49,796 --> 00:11:51,881 I'm with the FBI. 80 00:11:52,423 --> 00:11:55,009 Federal Bureau of Integration ? 81 00:11:58,471 --> 00:12:03,768 - In that get-up, you ain't undercover. - We're here to see Sheriff Stuckey. 82 00:12:03,851 --> 00:12:06,604 Sheriff's right busy now. 83 00:12:07,980 --> 00:12:11,109 You'll have to wait or come back some other time. 84 00:12:13,361 --> 00:12:15,446 We'll wait. 85 00:12:27,708 --> 00:12:30,711 Listen to me, you backwoods shit-ass, you. 86 00:12:30,795 --> 00:12:35,841 You got two seconds to get the sheriff out here or I'll kick the goddamn door in. OK ? 87 00:12:39,637 --> 00:12:42,682 Well, hell. Looks like we got some company. 88 00:12:42,765 --> 00:12:45,017 Some Hoover boys come down to visit. 89 00:12:45,101 --> 00:12:47,186 - How ya doin' ? - Good. 90 00:12:47,770 --> 00:12:50,231 - I'm Sheriff Stuckey. - Rupert Anderson. 91 00:12:50,731 --> 00:12:53,192 Rupert, we've been expectin' you. 92 00:12:53,275 --> 00:12:57,571 - I assume you met my deputy, Mr Pell. - Sure did. 93 00:12:58,113 --> 00:13:00,950 You down here to help us solve our nigger problems ? 94 00:13:01,033 --> 00:13:04,286 No. It's just a missing-person case. 95 00:13:04,370 --> 00:13:06,455 Well, come on. 96 00:13:06,539 --> 00:13:10,167 - You gonna want your boy in on this ? - Sheriff... 97 00:13:10,251 --> 00:13:14,421 I'm Special Agent Ward and I'm in charge of this case. 98 00:13:14,505 --> 00:13:18,676 We think it might be a little more serious than missing persons. 99 00:13:18,759 --> 00:13:21,637 I don't think so, boy. Know what I think it is ? 100 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:25,891 It's a publicity stunt cooked up by that Martin Luther King fella. 101 00:13:25,974 --> 00:13:28,685 Come on. 102 00:13:41,448 --> 00:13:45,577 At around 3 p.m., Deputy Pell says he arrested the three boys for speeding. 103 00:13:45,661 --> 00:13:49,456 He held them in jail until 10 p.m. and then released them. 104 00:13:49,539 --> 00:13:53,585 They drove off. He says he followed them as far as the county line... 105 00:13:53,669 --> 00:13:55,754 ...and never saw them again. 106 00:13:57,756 --> 00:14:00,092 Why didn't they make a phone call ? 107 00:14:00,175 --> 00:14:04,096 - Why should they ? - These boys were trained activists. 108 00:14:04,179 --> 00:14:08,892 They're taught to check in every hour and, if arrested, the moment they're released. 109 00:14:08,975 --> 00:14:14,731 The hotel is near the jail. They could've phoned from the lobby. It doesn't follow. 110 00:14:14,815 --> 00:14:17,400 - Maybe they had a beer. - Not these boys. 111 00:14:17,484 --> 00:14:21,696 The civil rights office in Rossville started making calls when they didn't check in. 112 00:14:21,780 --> 00:14:26,117 The sheriff's office here said they had no idea where the boys were. 113 00:14:26,868 --> 00:14:29,037 First lie. 114 00:14:31,206 --> 00:14:34,084 By who ? Sheriff's office or civil rights office ? 115 00:14:34,167 --> 00:14:36,378 Who would you believe ? 116 00:14:36,669 --> 00:14:40,799 Mr Ward, I was a sheriff in a little Mississippi town just like this. 117 00:14:40,882 --> 00:14:44,469 - Yes, I'm aware of that. - Well, lyin' just don't come into it. 118 00:14:44,552 --> 00:14:48,431 We were ten miles from Memphis, a million miles from the rest of the world. 119 00:14:48,515 --> 00:14:53,811 If a sheriff in a town like this says that's what happened, that's what happened. 120 00:14:53,895 --> 00:14:55,980 Let's go eat. 121 00:15:10,370 --> 00:15:13,373 We're full up, honey. Y'all wanna wait a while ? 122 00:15:13,456 --> 00:15:16,417 - Is the wait worth it ? - We're not full for nothin', sugar. 123 00:15:16,501 --> 00:15:18,878 Y'all wanna look at a menu while you wait ? 124 00:15:18,961 --> 00:15:20,797 Thank you. 125 00:15:21,631 --> 00:15:24,217 Well, what y'all gonna do ? Wait or leave ? 126 00:15:24,300 --> 00:15:26,928 We're gonna wait 'cause we wanna be near you. 127 00:15:27,970 --> 00:15:32,141 - There are some empty seats down there. - Uh, Mr Ward... 128 00:15:32,225 --> 00:15:35,353 That's coloured down there. Don't even think about it. 129 00:15:35,436 --> 00:15:40,566 - People here are gettin' ready to leave. - Aren't you hungry, Mr Anderson ? 130 00:15:49,241 --> 00:15:51,535 Good afternoon. Looks good. 131 00:16:02,922 --> 00:16:05,799 Do you mind if I ask you a few questions ? 132 00:16:05,883 --> 00:16:08,135 I'm looking for some information. 133 00:16:11,222 --> 00:16:14,808 - I ain't got nothin' to say to you, sir. - Just a few questions. 134 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:22,149 I ain't got nothin' to say to you, sir. 135 00:16:41,126 --> 00:16:46,840 The civil rights boys came to propose setting up a voter registration clinic. 136 00:16:46,924 --> 00:16:50,427 Before the locals got a chance to say yes, the Klan burned 'em down. 137 00:16:50,510 --> 00:16:54,681 - You give a man a vote but he can't use it. - Yeah, that's the way it works. 138 00:16:54,765 --> 00:16:56,850 What did their office in Rossville say ? 139 00:16:56,934 --> 00:17:00,812 That the boys came back here to apologise to the congregation. 140 00:17:01,730 --> 00:17:03,815 "Sorry you folks didn't get to vote." 141 00:17:03,899 --> 00:17:07,527 "I suppose most of you never knew you even had one." 142 00:17:07,611 --> 00:17:10,113 "Now you got no place to go on Sunday." 143 00:17:12,032 --> 00:17:16,119 Apparently, after they came back here, they talked to some locals down the road. 144 00:17:16,203 --> 00:17:20,499 - I think that's where we should start. - Oh, they won't talk to you. 145 00:17:21,791 --> 00:17:24,878 These people have to live here long after we're gone. 146 00:17:24,961 --> 00:17:27,797 They'd rather bite their tongue off than talk to us. 147 00:17:27,881 --> 00:17:30,008 Bureau procedure, Mr Anderson. 148 00:17:37,641 --> 00:17:41,436 The church caught fire and you ran home. Is that correct ? 149 00:17:41,936 --> 00:17:43,521 Yes, sir. 150 00:17:43,605 --> 00:17:46,232 And then the four white men stopped you ? 151 00:17:46,316 --> 00:17:47,776 Yes, sir. 152 00:17:48,068 --> 00:17:51,404 And these four white men attacked your husband ? 153 00:17:51,488 --> 00:17:53,823 Yes, sir. 154 00:17:53,907 --> 00:17:56,409 But you can't identify them. 155 00:17:57,952 --> 00:18:00,413 No, sir. 156 00:18:00,496 --> 00:18:03,124 Did you report this to the police ? 157 00:18:03,208 --> 00:18:05,710 No, sir. 158 00:18:05,793 --> 00:18:08,546 But you told the civil rights boys what happened ? 159 00:18:08,630 --> 00:18:11,049 Yes, sir. 160 00:18:11,132 --> 00:18:14,761 Ma'am, did they tell you where they were going after that ? 161 00:18:18,556 --> 00:18:21,726 - No, sir. - Nothing ? 162 00:18:21,809 --> 00:18:23,895 No, sir. 163 00:18:25,813 --> 00:18:28,232 All right. Thank you, ma'am. 164 00:18:28,441 --> 00:18:30,318 You're welcome. 165 00:18:43,164 --> 00:18:45,750 - Come on, boy. - Open up. 166 00:18:48,002 --> 00:18:50,379 - Your brother Hollis here, Fennis ? - Yes, sir. 167 00:18:50,463 --> 00:18:52,923 Well, wake his ass up. We wanna see him. 168 00:18:53,007 --> 00:18:54,967 - Why ? - Just wake him up, boy. 169 00:18:55,051 --> 00:18:57,678 - What is it ? - There you are, nigger trash ! 170 00:19:00,222 --> 00:19:02,308 Come here, boy ! 171 00:19:02,391 --> 00:19:03,726 Hollis ! Hollis ! 172 00:19:05,102 --> 00:19:07,730 Get your ass back here, you fuckin' nigger ! 173 00:19:07,813 --> 00:19:09,690 Hollis ! Hollis ! 174 00:19:25,789 --> 00:19:28,292 We better not catch you talkin' to the FBI. 175 00:19:28,375 --> 00:19:30,836 Or you'll be dead, boy. Real dead. 176 00:19:49,521 --> 00:19:52,691 You admire these kids, don't you ? 177 00:19:52,774 --> 00:19:55,277 Don't you ? 178 00:19:55,360 --> 00:19:57,446 I think they're bein' used. 179 00:19:58,530 --> 00:20:01,950 They're sent here in their Volkswagens and sneakers... 180 00:20:02,034 --> 00:20:04,119 ...just to get their heads cracked open. 181 00:20:04,202 --> 00:20:07,998 Did it ever occur to you that maybe they believed in what they were doing ? 182 00:20:08,081 --> 00:20:12,085 - Did it occur to them they'd end up dead ? - Maybe. 183 00:20:12,169 --> 00:20:15,756 In Washington they sure as hell knew, didn't they ? 184 00:20:15,839 --> 00:20:18,550 Some things are worth dying for. 185 00:20:20,343 --> 00:20:23,972 Well, down here they see things a little differently. 186 00:20:25,348 --> 00:20:29,102 People down here feel some things are worth killin' for. 187 00:20:31,980 --> 00:20:35,650 Where does it come from, all this hatred ? 188 00:20:38,653 --> 00:20:41,406 You know, when I was a little boy, ... 189 00:20:41,489 --> 00:20:45,744 ...there was an old Negro farmer lived down the road from us, name of Monroe. 190 00:20:45,827 --> 00:20:51,041 And he was... Well, I guess he was just a little luckier than my daddy was. 191 00:20:55,754 --> 00:20:57,839 He bought himself a mule. 192 00:20:59,382 --> 00:21:02,552 That was a big deal around that town. 193 00:21:02,635 --> 00:21:05,388 My daddy hated that mule. 194 00:21:05,471 --> 00:21:10,977 His friends kidded him that they saw Monroe ploughin' with his new mule... 195 00:21:11,060 --> 00:21:15,732 ...and Monroe was gonna rent another field now that he had a mule. 196 00:21:17,567 --> 00:21:20,528 One morning that mule just showed up dead. 197 00:21:22,905 --> 00:21:25,366 They poisoned the water. 198 00:21:26,409 --> 00:21:31,456 After that there was never any mention about that mule around my daddy. 199 00:21:35,251 --> 00:21:39,589 One time we were drivin' past Monroe's place and we saw it was empty. 200 00:21:39,672 --> 00:21:43,885 He'd just packed up and left, I guess. Gone up North or somethin'. 201 00:21:45,970 --> 00:21:48,931 I looked over at my daddy's face... 202 00:21:51,017 --> 00:21:53,477 ...and I knew he'd done it. 203 00:21:53,561 --> 00:21:55,521 And he saw that I knew. 204 00:21:55,604 --> 00:21:57,690 He was ashamed. 205 00:21:58,774 --> 00:22:00,860 I guess he was ashamed. 206 00:22:03,154 --> 00:22:05,990 He looked at me and he said... 207 00:22:06,073 --> 00:22:10,202 ..."If you ain't better than a nigger, son, who are you better than ?" 208 00:22:12,288 --> 00:22:14,415 Do you think that's an excuse ? 209 00:22:14,498 --> 00:22:18,210 No, it's not an excuse. It's just a story about my daddy. 210 00:22:22,923 --> 00:22:25,467 Where does that leave you ? 211 00:22:25,551 --> 00:22:27,636 With an old man who was so full of hate... 212 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:32,391 ...that he didn't know that bein' poor was what was killin' him. 213 00:22:40,858 --> 00:22:42,943 Get the light ! Get the light ! 214 00:22:45,195 --> 00:22:47,281 You all right ? 215 00:22:57,416 --> 00:22:59,668 I guess they know we're here. 216 00:23:35,871 --> 00:23:38,373 Now you know what you're gettin' into. 217 00:23:38,456 --> 00:23:41,543 I'm gonna call Washington. I need more agents. 218 00:23:41,626 --> 00:23:45,380 Would it change your mind if I say that's exactly the wrong thing to do ? 219 00:23:45,463 --> 00:23:46,840 No. 220 00:24:34,679 --> 00:24:39,684 The whole place for 75 a month. It's private. It's central. It's perfect. 221 00:24:40,893 --> 00:24:42,979 There's room for a hundred more agents. 222 00:24:43,062 --> 00:24:45,940 Two hundred, maybe. More in the balcony. 223 00:24:46,023 --> 00:24:49,193 We're just trying to find the three boys, Mr Anderson. 224 00:24:49,277 --> 00:24:51,654 I'll take all the help I can get. 225 00:24:53,823 --> 00:24:55,908 When's the show start ? 226 00:25:50,087 --> 00:25:53,340 - Who's the big shot ? - It's the Klan. 227 00:25:54,299 --> 00:25:57,970 No pointy hats but plenty of pointy heads. 228 00:25:58,887 --> 00:26:01,181 Let me run a check on the plates. 229 00:26:31,837 --> 00:26:34,297 Good afternoon, gentlemen. 230 00:26:34,381 --> 00:26:37,801 Anderson. Say hello to our mayor, Mr Tilman here. 231 00:26:38,301 --> 00:26:41,096 - How do you do, Anderson ? - Mr Mayor. Mr Barber. 232 00:26:43,139 --> 00:26:47,644 Well, this looks like the place to be. Even for me. 233 00:26:47,727 --> 00:26:52,524 Yep. Nothin' like a barbershop for jawin' your socks off. 234 00:26:53,149 --> 00:26:55,151 Where you from, Anderson ? 235 00:26:55,235 --> 00:26:58,697 Thornton, Mississippi, sir. Just a spit from Tennessee. 236 00:26:58,988 --> 00:27:02,534 Well, then you must know how we all feel down here. 237 00:27:02,617 --> 00:27:06,204 We don't take to outsiders tellin' us how to live our lives. 238 00:27:06,287 --> 00:27:08,915 And I'm here to tell ya, our nigras were happy... 239 00:27:08,998 --> 00:27:12,877 ...till those beatnik college kids came down here stirrin' things up. 240 00:27:12,961 --> 00:27:16,297 Before that, there wasn't anybody complainin'. 241 00:27:16,381 --> 00:27:18,967 Nobody dared. 242 00:27:19,717 --> 00:27:22,929 We got a real peaceful community down here, Anderson. 243 00:27:23,012 --> 00:27:27,725 Course, they're just like any other folks, I reckon, when you push 'em too far. 244 00:27:27,809 --> 00:27:32,689 The way I figure it, it's like three sticks of old dynamite. 245 00:27:32,772 --> 00:27:37,568 You shake it up... and we're gonna be scrapin' bodies off the street. 246 00:27:38,653 --> 00:27:42,949 I'm just here to investigate the missing three kids, ask some questions. 247 00:27:43,032 --> 00:27:45,201 If this all boiled down to gravy, ... 248 00:27:45,284 --> 00:27:48,454 ...there wouldn't be enough to cover a chicken-fried steak. 249 00:27:48,538 --> 00:27:55,628 Them kids you're lookin' for ? I'd bet you a shiny new dime they're in Chicago now... 250 00:27:55,711 --> 00:28:01,050 ...drinkin' a cold beer and havin' a laugh about the commotion they stirred up here. 251 00:28:01,133 --> 00:28:03,094 Well, I sure hope so. 252 00:28:03,177 --> 00:28:07,765 You can tell your bosses people got the wrong idea about the South. 253 00:28:08,808 --> 00:28:10,893 You know what I'm talkin' about. 254 00:28:10,976 --> 00:28:14,563 Everybody runnin' around ragged, backwards and illiterate, ... 255 00:28:14,647 --> 00:28:18,526 ...eatin' sowbelly and corn pone three times a day. 256 00:28:18,609 --> 00:28:22,822 Simple fact is, Anderson, we got two cultures down here. 257 00:28:22,905 --> 00:28:26,700 White culture and a coloured culture. 258 00:28:26,784 --> 00:28:31,205 That's the way it always has been. That's the way it always will be. 259 00:28:31,288 --> 00:28:35,918 - The rest of America don't see it that way. - The rest of America don't mean jack shit. 260 00:28:36,001 --> 00:28:38,337 You in Mississippi now. 261 00:28:38,921 --> 00:28:41,048 Oh, that's for sure ! 262 00:28:43,425 --> 00:28:47,137 - What's the score, Mr Barber ? - St Louis on top, five to nothing. 263 00:28:47,221 --> 00:28:49,848 - What inning is it ? - Bottom of the seventh. 264 00:28:49,932 --> 00:28:53,435 - You like baseball, Anderson ? - Yeah, I do. You know, ... 265 00:28:55,270 --> 00:29:00,109 ...it's the only time when a black man can wave a stick at a white man... 266 00:29:00,609 --> 00:29:02,903 ...and not start a riot. 267 00:29:18,835 --> 00:29:20,796 Sir. 268 00:29:20,879 --> 00:29:24,341 We checked on the plate, sir. Clayton Townley. 269 00:29:24,424 --> 00:29:28,470 Townley. Grand Wizard of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. 270 00:29:28,553 --> 00:29:31,431 That's him. And we have a lead on the car. 271 00:29:31,515 --> 00:29:35,268 A Choctaw on the reservation thinks he knows where it is. 272 00:29:35,352 --> 00:29:36,603 Good. 273 00:29:52,619 --> 00:29:55,246 You have an appointment next Tuesday ? 274 00:29:55,330 --> 00:29:57,415 I'll see you then. Bye-bye. 275 00:30:24,317 --> 00:30:26,986 Afternoon, ladies. 276 00:30:27,070 --> 00:30:29,739 - Can I help you ? - Well, yes, you can. 277 00:30:29,822 --> 00:30:33,701 I tell you, I just... I hate the way I look. You know ? 278 00:30:33,785 --> 00:30:37,497 What do you think ? A permanent wave, maybe ? Or a bleach job ? 279 00:30:39,207 --> 00:30:43,294 - That looks good. Was it done in here ? - No. Jackson. 280 00:30:43,378 --> 00:30:49,008 A wig's your only hope, hon. You won't be able to do much with that cue ball. 281 00:30:50,676 --> 00:30:54,430 If you wanna ask us some questions, this is where you'll hear it all. 282 00:30:54,514 --> 00:30:56,641 Yeah, matter of fact, I do. 283 00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:01,145 I was wonderin' who that gentleman was that just drove in over there. 284 00:31:01,229 --> 00:31:05,566 - I know that isn't President Johnson. - His name's Townley. Clayton Townley. 285 00:31:05,650 --> 00:31:09,403 - Are you one of them FBI gentlemen ? - Yes, ma'am, I am. 286 00:31:09,487 --> 00:31:14,659 Well, I think it's a shame if those two kids are dead. But I sure hope you find 'em. 287 00:31:14,742 --> 00:31:19,038 Thank you. Actually, three kids are missin'. There's a coloured kid also. 288 00:31:19,413 --> 00:31:23,876 Do you think your people'd be down here if it weren't for those two white boys ? 289 00:31:23,959 --> 00:31:26,128 - Maybe not, miss. - Mrs. 290 00:31:26,378 --> 00:31:29,590 Pell. Her old man's Ray Stuckey's deputy. 291 00:31:32,802 --> 00:31:34,887 But I'm single. 292 00:31:54,239 --> 00:31:56,325 Move out of the way. 293 00:31:58,911 --> 00:32:02,956 Move over, boy. We'll take care of this. It's a local problem. 294 00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:06,084 We'll handle this. We don't need your damn help. 295 00:32:08,629 --> 00:32:13,091 It ain't right havin' blood on Main Street. How'd that look on the TV news ? 296 00:32:14,968 --> 00:32:17,429 - Get up. - OK, I got him. I got him. 297 00:32:21,683 --> 00:32:23,310 He's the kid from the diner. 298 00:32:23,393 --> 00:32:26,813 Think twice before you talk to coloured kids with an audience. 299 00:32:26,897 --> 00:32:30,359 They're sending a message from the boss in Tupelo, and you know it. 300 00:32:30,442 --> 00:32:33,320 I know it, yes. Clayton Townley, chief pointy head. 301 00:32:33,403 --> 00:32:36,656 Yeah, that's right. How did you know ? 302 00:32:36,740 --> 00:32:39,117 Bureau procedure, Mr Ward. Try it sometime. 303 00:32:39,201 --> 00:32:40,827 We did. 304 00:32:40,911 --> 00:32:43,413 We found the car the kids were driving. 305 00:33:23,828 --> 00:33:25,914 Good morning. 306 00:33:34,589 --> 00:33:36,674 Good morning. 307 00:34:57,212 --> 00:35:00,883 Two beer cans, a Coca-Cola bottle, a green plastic bottle, ... 308 00:35:00,966 --> 00:35:06,513 ...a badly burned wristwatch stopped at 12.45, and a set of keys. No bodies. 309 00:35:06,597 --> 00:35:11,018 - I want the area searched. Every inch. - Yes, sir. 310 00:35:11,101 --> 00:35:13,812 - It's a big swamp. - Every inch, Mr Bird. 311 00:35:17,900 --> 00:35:20,444 I guess they never left Mississippi. 312 00:35:21,862 --> 00:35:24,364 They're dead. They're dead. 313 00:35:25,449 --> 00:35:27,409 Mr Bird ? 314 00:35:27,492 --> 00:35:31,204 - Yes, sir ? - There's a telephone at the truck stop. 315 00:35:31,288 --> 00:35:35,792 Get to it, get on it, and get me a hundred more men here by morning. 316 00:35:36,335 --> 00:35:38,420 - A hundred ? - A hundred. 317 00:35:38,837 --> 00:35:41,923 - Bureau people, sir ? - I don't care if it's the army ! 318 00:35:42,007 --> 00:35:45,260 - I want this entire swamp searched ! - Yes, sir. 319 00:35:48,430 --> 00:35:50,682 Don't do it, Mr Ward. 320 00:35:50,765 --> 00:35:54,686 - You'll just start a war. - It was a war long before we got here. 321 00:36:53,077 --> 00:36:55,538 Get the fuck outta here now ! 322 00:37:36,245 --> 00:37:38,330 Sir ? 323 00:37:39,123 --> 00:37:43,919 The sheriff's alibi is solid. He was playing poker with his wife's brother and cousins. 324 00:37:44,003 --> 00:37:48,048 - The whole time ? - For three hours. He lost $11.38. 325 00:37:49,675 --> 00:37:54,430 There's something else. We're having a little trouble with the motel manager. 326 00:37:54,513 --> 00:37:58,934 - What kind of trouble ? - He wants us out. We're bad for business. 327 00:37:59,018 --> 00:38:01,061 Buy it. 328 00:38:01,145 --> 00:38:03,689 - Sorry, sir ? - Buy it ! 329 00:38:04,732 --> 00:38:06,650 The motel. 330 00:38:06,734 --> 00:38:09,445 - How high can I go ? - Whatever it takes. 331 00:38:33,218 --> 00:38:35,679 Today in Jessup County, Mississippi, ... 332 00:38:35,762 --> 00:38:39,349 ...amidst the violence of this week, the eyes of the nation... 333 00:38:39,433 --> 00:38:43,395 ...are fixed on the search for the missing civil rights workers. 334 00:38:43,729 --> 00:38:48,650 I think it's all a big hoax. But if they are in that swamp, then they asked for it. 335 00:38:48,734 --> 00:38:54,739 Naval reserves have joined FBI agents in searching for the missing men. 336 00:38:54,823 --> 00:38:59,494 I think they planned it. They're sittin' up in New York laughin' at us Mississippi folks. 337 00:38:59,578 --> 00:39:04,666 - You think it's a hoax ? - A big hoax. They gonna find nothin'. 338 00:39:04,749 --> 00:39:09,170 Civil rights leaders are optimistic as to the young men's whereabouts. 339 00:39:09,254 --> 00:39:13,842 But privately there is mounting concern that they will ever be found alive. 340 00:39:13,925 --> 00:39:16,594 They came lookin' for trouble and found it. 341 00:39:16,761 --> 00:39:21,141 This is Marek Barlbobi, Network News, Jessup County, Mississippi. 342 00:39:23,435 --> 00:39:28,022 Tell you what I think they oughta be doin'. Lookin' up in Canada for them boys, ... 343 00:39:28,106 --> 00:39:30,733 ...instead of our swamps around here. 344 00:39:30,817 --> 00:39:36,364 I'll tell you somethin' else. I think it's a stunt dreamed up by NAAC people. 345 00:39:36,447 --> 00:39:39,367 - NAAC people ? - NAACP. 346 00:39:39,450 --> 00:39:44,539 Know what it stands for ? Niggers, Alligators, Apes, Coons and Possums. 347 00:39:44,622 --> 00:39:47,333 Tell you what you got. You got your NAACP. 348 00:39:47,417 --> 00:39:51,212 You got your SNCC. You got your COFO. 349 00:39:51,296 --> 00:39:55,842 You know what all that mess is ? B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T. 350 00:39:55,925 --> 00:39:58,011 You got it ? 351 00:40:01,639 --> 00:40:07,270 One day we won't have to say "Good morning, sir, Mr Sheriff." 352 00:40:07,353 --> 00:40:11,649 Maybe there'll come a time when we won't have to say "Mr Stuckey". 353 00:40:11,732 --> 00:40:16,237 One day there'll come a time when we'll just say "Stuckey" or "Sheriff". 354 00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:20,867 And one day there'll come a time when the sheriff won't even be a white man. 355 00:40:32,294 --> 00:40:34,088 Hello. 356 00:40:37,425 --> 00:40:40,219 I wonder if I could ask you a few questions. 357 00:40:40,302 --> 00:40:44,723 I don't suppose you could tell me what kind of flower these are, could you ? 358 00:40:44,807 --> 00:40:47,852 I been seein' 'em all over the place here and... 359 00:40:48,936 --> 00:40:51,730 Never saw such a darn pretty plant. 360 00:40:52,773 --> 00:40:54,650 They're trumpet-pitchers. 361 00:40:54,733 --> 00:40:56,735 Trumpet-pitchers ? 362 00:40:57,069 --> 00:40:59,572 They're beautiful. They really are. 363 00:40:59,822 --> 00:41:03,200 They don't smell so good but they're pretty. 364 00:41:07,496 --> 00:41:09,581 It's nice talkin' to you. 365 00:41:09,665 --> 00:41:14,670 Sorry about interruptin' your meeting but we can't get anybody to talk to us. 366 00:41:14,753 --> 00:41:16,880 They zip up, like my momma used to say. 367 00:41:16,964 --> 00:41:21,927 People don't wanna talk to you because they're afraid it'll get back to the law. 368 00:41:22,010 --> 00:41:24,680 - We are the law. - Not around here you ain't. 369 00:41:25,472 --> 00:41:31,812 We came to find out what happened to those boys. They were here to help you. 370 00:41:31,895 --> 00:41:36,733 - It ain't coloured folks you should talk to. - Who should we talk to ? 371 00:41:37,526 --> 00:41:39,611 Come on, Aaron. 372 00:41:40,487 --> 00:41:43,657 You should start with the sheriff's office. 373 00:41:45,117 --> 00:41:48,036 - Why aren't you afraid ? - How come you ain't ? 374 00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:49,955 Aaron ? 375 00:41:50,997 --> 00:41:53,667 Aaron, come on, son. 376 00:42:06,429 --> 00:42:11,434 Here's the pitch. Swing and a line-drive base hit. Another run is home. 377 00:42:15,105 --> 00:42:18,400 On to the next pitch by the ruffled Bob Gibson. He is upset. 378 00:42:18,483 --> 00:42:21,444 Ron Hunt singled to centre. Hickman passed third... 379 00:42:21,528 --> 00:42:23,697 ...and scored the Mets' second run. 380 00:42:23,780 --> 00:42:26,449 Hunt holds on at first, and the Mets lead two to one. 381 00:42:38,962 --> 00:42:43,216 Good evening, Mrs Pell. I'm Agent Ward. This is Agent Anderson. 382 00:42:43,299 --> 00:42:45,593 We're with the FBI. 383 00:42:45,677 --> 00:42:47,762 Is your husband home ? 384 00:42:47,845 --> 00:42:50,348 We'd like to have a word with him. 385 00:42:51,015 --> 00:42:53,101 Y'all come in, then. 386 00:42:59,607 --> 00:43:04,112 It's the FBI gentlemen, Clinton. They wanna ask you some more questions. 387 00:43:04,195 --> 00:43:06,489 You want me to put your dinner in the oven ? 388 00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:11,702 Leave us alone. 389 00:43:11,786 --> 00:43:13,871 Mind if I take a seat ? 390 00:43:17,708 --> 00:43:20,878 What's so goddamn important you got to bother me at home ? 391 00:43:20,962 --> 00:43:25,800 I just wanted to run through once again your movements on June 21st. 392 00:43:25,883 --> 00:43:28,094 June which ? 393 00:43:28,177 --> 00:43:30,263 June 21st. 394 00:43:30,346 --> 00:43:35,309 Deputy, we both know what day we're talking about, so let's do this civilised. 395 00:43:35,393 --> 00:43:39,855 Then you get back to your ball game and we can get back to Washington. 396 00:43:50,366 --> 00:43:52,910 Please, don't let me interrupt you. 397 00:43:53,702 --> 00:43:59,208 It's just when you've heard a question a dozen times, it gets kinda boring. 398 00:43:59,708 --> 00:44:02,002 Yeah, I guess so. 399 00:44:08,384 --> 00:44:11,720 - You don't eat together ? - He works funny hours. 400 00:44:14,765 --> 00:44:16,850 - You think that's odd ? - No. 401 00:44:16,934 --> 00:44:19,353 No, I work funny hours myself. 402 00:44:22,231 --> 00:44:25,359 I eat when I'm hungry. He eats when he can. 403 00:44:25,442 --> 00:44:29,071 - Can I get you somethin' ? - No, no. Thanks. 404 00:44:29,154 --> 00:44:31,115 This is a nice house. 405 00:44:31,198 --> 00:44:34,451 - How long have you lived here ? - I was born here. 406 00:44:34,535 --> 00:44:38,205 But my father lost the house in a poker game a long time ago. 407 00:44:40,165 --> 00:44:43,168 We've been payin' rent ever since. 408 00:44:45,963 --> 00:44:48,674 It's a wicked game. 409 00:44:51,176 --> 00:44:52,928 Poker. 410 00:44:53,970 --> 00:44:56,056 Wicked. 411 00:44:56,139 --> 00:44:58,100 Mr Anderson ? 412 00:45:00,852 --> 00:45:03,605 It's nice talkin' to you. Guess I gotta go. 413 00:45:07,776 --> 00:45:10,695 Them pork chops still any good, honey ? Bring me a beer. 414 00:45:10,779 --> 00:45:13,073 Good night. 415 00:45:13,698 --> 00:45:15,617 Let you get back to your baseball. 416 00:45:15,700 --> 00:45:19,454 They say it's the only game where a black man can wave a stick... 417 00:45:19,537 --> 00:45:21,623 I know. I already heard that one. 418 00:45:27,629 --> 00:45:30,882 Fifty minutes of his alibi hinges on his wife. 419 00:45:30,965 --> 00:45:34,260 - You talked to her. What's she like ? - She's a nice lady. 420 00:45:34,344 --> 00:45:38,014 Tell me, Mr Anderson. How does a woman like that end up with... 421 00:45:38,098 --> 00:45:41,976 With shithead in there ? You know what these small towns are like. 422 00:45:42,060 --> 00:45:46,481 A girl spends all her time in high school lookin' for the guy she's gonna marry... 423 00:45:46,564 --> 00:45:49,150 ...and spends the rest of her life wonderin' why. 424 00:45:49,234 --> 00:45:51,861 Something's wrong. He's too confident. 425 00:45:51,945 --> 00:45:54,781 - Did you see the wedding photograph ? - No. 426 00:45:54,864 --> 00:45:58,785 His three pals, the ushers, had their thumbs hooked in their belts... 427 00:45:58,868 --> 00:46:01,663 ...with their three fingers pointing down. 428 00:46:01,746 --> 00:46:04,374 So what is that ? Some sort of Masonic thing ? 429 00:46:04,457 --> 00:46:07,377 No ! KKK. 430 00:46:12,799 --> 00:46:15,885 I know you ain't drunk. 431 00:46:15,968 --> 00:46:19,138 - I'm not drunk. - All right. You ain't drunk. 432 00:46:19,222 --> 00:46:22,725 I'm just gonna take you where you can sleep it off. 433 00:46:22,809 --> 00:46:24,894 All right. Hold up. 434 00:46:27,897 --> 00:46:29,982 Watch your head. 435 00:47:24,036 --> 00:47:29,083 Hi. Uh... There was a couple of things I needed to check with you. 436 00:47:29,166 --> 00:47:34,046 - My husband's not here. - Actually, it was you I wanted to talk to. 437 00:47:34,755 --> 00:47:37,049 Me ? 438 00:47:37,132 --> 00:47:39,635 OK. You'd better come in, then. 439 00:47:43,639 --> 00:47:45,641 Just take a minute. 440 00:47:45,724 --> 00:47:48,852 My boss, he's kind of a pain. A college kid. 441 00:47:48,936 --> 00:47:52,773 He has to dot all the i's and cross all the t's. 442 00:47:52,856 --> 00:47:58,362 - What is it you wanted to ask me about ? - It's a time thing we're not so clear about. 443 00:47:58,445 --> 00:48:01,490 Should I put your flowers in some water while you're here ? 444 00:48:01,573 --> 00:48:03,658 Yeah. Actually they're for you. 445 00:48:04,910 --> 00:48:07,287 They're beautiful. 446 00:48:07,370 --> 00:48:09,498 They are pretty, aren't they ? 447 00:48:09,581 --> 00:48:12,501 They don't smell so nice but they're pretty. 448 00:48:13,001 --> 00:48:15,504 Can I get you anything ? Some tea ? 449 00:48:15,587 --> 00:48:17,672 Yeah. Thanks. 450 00:48:32,937 --> 00:48:36,066 Oh, don't you look at that. It's a terrible photo. 451 00:48:36,149 --> 00:48:38,651 Oh, I don't know about that. 452 00:48:39,444 --> 00:48:42,989 - Is this recent ? - No. I wish. 453 00:48:43,073 --> 00:48:45,700 Well... this here looks recent to me. 454 00:48:45,784 --> 00:48:48,369 We were married 14 years ago. 455 00:48:48,453 --> 00:48:51,414 Are you kidding me ? No ! Come on. 456 00:48:52,916 --> 00:48:55,043 - You take sugar ? - Sure do. 457 00:48:56,586 --> 00:49:00,965 - You know, I grew up in a town like this. - You were smart enough to leave. 458 00:49:01,049 --> 00:49:02,967 Why didn't you ? 459 00:49:03,051 --> 00:49:05,136 "For better or for worse." 460 00:49:09,057 --> 00:49:11,726 How about you ? Are you married ? 461 00:49:13,394 --> 00:49:16,064 Well, I was, as I remember. 462 00:49:17,106 --> 00:49:19,817 It didn't last very long. I was never home. 463 00:49:19,901 --> 00:49:26,657 I guess she got fed up with... phone calls from Miami, postcards from Des Moines. 464 00:49:27,116 --> 00:49:29,952 There was always a guy around. 465 00:49:30,036 --> 00:49:33,706 Any guy that could spare the time for a movie or a beer... 466 00:49:33,789 --> 00:49:36,751 ...or a quarter for the jukebox. 467 00:49:39,337 --> 00:49:41,756 She left. 468 00:49:45,259 --> 00:49:49,263 - How about you ? - Well, you know the South, Mr Anderson. 469 00:49:50,389 --> 00:49:54,393 You leave high school and marry the first boy who makes you laugh. 470 00:49:54,477 --> 00:49:56,896 Hey, your husband's quite a guy. 471 00:49:59,231 --> 00:50:04,695 You know, my boss has this thing about an hour - 50 minutes, to be exact - ... 472 00:50:04,779 --> 00:50:08,365 ...that your husband says that he was with you. 473 00:50:11,827 --> 00:50:15,539 - And I guess he was. - Guess he was. 474 00:50:18,751 --> 00:50:21,545 Well, that's a pity. 475 00:50:22,129 --> 00:50:27,259 That means that I don't have an excuse for hangin' around here any more. 476 00:50:28,969 --> 00:50:30,554 Well... 477 00:50:31,430 --> 00:50:33,474 Thank you for the iced tea. 478 00:50:33,557 --> 00:50:36,060 - Thank you for the flowers. - Sure. 479 00:50:38,687 --> 00:50:40,773 Do you know what kind they are ? 480 00:50:42,107 --> 00:50:46,153 - I heard they're called trumpet-pitchers. - Oh, that's right. 481 00:50:46,236 --> 00:50:49,990 My daddy used to call 'em ladies-from-hell because they're carn... 482 00:50:50,073 --> 00:50:51,825 Carnivorous. 483 00:50:51,909 --> 00:50:53,911 - That's the word ? - Yeah. 484 00:50:53,994 --> 00:50:58,957 That pretty colour's the bait. Insects just home in there and wham, they're dead, ... 485 00:50:59,041 --> 00:51:01,835 ...even before they got their shoes off. 486 00:51:05,213 --> 00:51:07,549 Maybe I should've picked something else. 487 00:51:07,632 --> 00:51:09,509 Maybe. 488 00:51:17,976 --> 00:51:25,317 "Sing the wondrous love of Jesus" 489 00:51:25,859 --> 00:51:32,949 "Sing his mercy and his grace" 490 00:51:33,950 --> 00:51:41,750 "In the mansions, bright and blessed" 491 00:51:41,833 --> 00:51:48,757 "He'll prepare for us a place" 492 00:52:00,101 --> 00:52:05,398 - "...day of rejoicing that will be" - "That will be" 493 00:52:05,899 --> 00:52:14,198 "When we all see Jesus" 494 00:52:14,532 --> 00:52:22,373 "We'll sing and shout the victory" 495 00:52:23,791 --> 00:52:27,754 May the peace and the joy in the Holy Ghost abide with all of you... 496 00:52:27,837 --> 00:52:29,964 ...for now and for ever. Amen. 497 00:52:46,731 --> 00:52:51,402 "When we all" 498 00:52:53,404 --> 00:52:58,576 "Get to heaven" 499 00:52:59,952 --> 00:53:06,751 "What a day offer joicing" 500 00:53:07,209 --> 00:53:11,297 "That will be" 501 00:53:12,548 --> 00:53:17,761 "When we all" 502 00:53:19,138 --> 00:53:24,727 "See Jesus, Jesus" 503 00:53:25,352 --> 00:53:29,940 "We'll sing and shout" 504 00:53:30,941 --> 00:53:34,486 "The victory" 505 00:53:38,991 --> 00:53:43,787 You already been told once, nigger. We don't wanna have to tell you again. 506 00:53:43,871 --> 00:53:48,041 You make any more trouble by flappin' them boot-lips off to them federal men, ... 507 00:53:48,125 --> 00:53:53,338 ...we'll sure as hell put you in the ground, boy, and that's without a pine box ! 508 00:53:54,756 --> 00:53:57,050 You understand me ? 509 00:54:09,062 --> 00:54:11,898 How are Negroes treated in Mississippi ? 510 00:54:11,982 --> 00:54:16,278 They're treated about fair. About as good as they oughta be. 511 00:54:22,159 --> 00:54:26,788 The niggers around here have been treated awful bad for a long time. 512 00:54:37,048 --> 00:54:40,135 I think Martin Luther King's one of the leaders. 513 00:54:40,218 --> 00:54:43,263 I mean, J. Edgar Hoover said that he was a communist... 514 00:54:43,346 --> 00:54:45,974 ...and they had proof to that effect. 515 00:54:46,057 --> 00:54:50,812 But I don't know that for sure. I hadn't seen it myself, but that's what they say. 516 00:55:04,284 --> 00:55:06,494 Hey, you really wanna find that nigger ? 517 00:55:06,578 --> 00:55:12,000 They say we've got to eat together and use the same bathroom as the niggers. 518 00:55:12,083 --> 00:55:15,420 And that's awful hard for some Mississippi folks to do. 519 00:55:15,503 --> 00:55:21,384 They're not like us. They don't take baths. They stink, they... they're nasty, ... 520 00:55:21,968 --> 00:55:24,095 ...they're just not like white folks. 521 00:55:29,851 --> 00:55:32,437 What do you think has happened to the three boys ? 522 00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:34,605 Dead. 523 00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:37,608 Just as dead as they can be. 524 00:55:38,067 --> 00:55:40,153 It feels so good. 525 00:55:43,072 --> 00:55:45,158 - Is she asleep ? Is she ? - Yeah. 526 00:55:46,117 --> 00:55:49,620 Oh, my Lord. I'm sorry I woke you up. 527 00:55:52,582 --> 00:55:56,002 - Bye, hon. I'll be a couple of hours. - All right. 528 00:55:56,085 --> 00:55:58,963 Well, Mary, is that your Betsy's kid ? 529 00:55:59,046 --> 00:56:02,717 Yeah. She's growin' up real quick, ain't she ? 530 00:56:12,226 --> 00:56:14,728 Tuesday'll be just fine on those, Mary. 531 00:56:20,359 --> 00:56:22,027 Funny. 532 00:56:24,113 --> 00:56:26,198 Their kids are so cute. 533 00:56:32,621 --> 00:56:34,999 Is that thing back on me again ? 534 00:56:35,082 --> 00:56:38,627 If the entire Secret Service couldn't protect the president, ... 535 00:56:38,711 --> 00:56:42,047 ...how in hell are we supposed to protect a few nigras ? 536 00:56:42,131 --> 00:56:47,803 It ain't nothin' but a bunch of lowlife white trash drinkin' too much cheap alcohol. 537 00:56:47,886 --> 00:56:52,766 More like paint thinner and snake juice, because this state's as dry as a martini, ... 538 00:56:52,850 --> 00:56:55,269 ...and we got the alcoholics to prove it. 539 00:56:56,395 --> 00:56:59,731 Give me a little room here. Excuse me, Bob. 540 00:57:02,109 --> 00:57:04,444 - Is this OK ? - Your name, please ? 541 00:57:04,528 --> 00:57:07,281 Clayton Townley. Local businessman. 542 00:57:07,364 --> 00:57:11,702 Are you, sir, a spokesman for the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan ? 543 00:57:11,785 --> 00:57:14,788 I told you. I'm a businessman. 544 00:57:14,871 --> 00:57:18,417 I'm also a Mississippian. And an American. 545 00:57:18,500 --> 00:57:21,837 And I am sick and tired of the way many of us Mississippians... 546 00:57:21,920 --> 00:57:25,465 ...are havin' our views distorted by your newspapers and on TV. 547 00:57:25,549 --> 00:57:27,634 So let's get this straight. 548 00:57:27,717 --> 00:57:31,513 We do not accept Jews because they reject Christ. 549 00:57:31,596 --> 00:57:36,935 Their control of the international banking cartels are at the root of communism. 550 00:57:37,018 --> 00:57:40,522 We do not accept Papists because they bow to a Roman dictator. 551 00:57:40,605 --> 00:57:44,734 We do not accept Turks, Mongols, Tartars, Orientals nor Negroes... 552 00:57:44,818 --> 00:57:48,196 ...because we're here to protect Anglo-Saxon democracy... 553 00:57:48,280 --> 00:57:51,908 - ...and the American way. - Thank you, sir. 554 00:57:54,619 --> 00:57:58,289 Lefty, you are livin' proof that cousins shouldn't fuck. 555 00:58:01,543 --> 00:58:04,546 What I was tryin' to say... there's this coloured boy. 556 00:58:04,629 --> 00:58:08,258 He wants to play football for Bear Bryant over at Alabama. 557 00:58:08,716 --> 00:58:11,553 So Bear says "I'm gonna give you a tryout." 558 00:58:11,636 --> 00:58:13,972 What's he gonna run with ? A water melon ? 559 00:58:15,306 --> 00:58:17,684 He's gonna keep on runnin' too. 560 00:58:17,767 --> 00:58:20,937 "OK, boy" he says. "You get down there on one goal line." 561 00:58:21,020 --> 00:58:25,942 He puts a whole team on the other goal line. He throws the boy the ball and says... 562 00:58:31,447 --> 00:58:35,076 - Are you open ? - You got to be a member to drink here. 563 00:58:35,743 --> 00:58:38,246 A member ? 564 00:58:38,329 --> 00:58:40,415 A member of what ? 565 00:58:43,292 --> 00:58:45,378 A member of the social club. 566 00:58:46,129 --> 00:58:49,090 I thought you'd just buy me a beer. 567 00:58:50,132 --> 00:58:52,218 Give him a beer, Frank. 568 00:58:55,846 --> 00:58:58,808 Nice to be back in a dry county again. 569 00:58:58,891 --> 00:59:01,852 When I was sheriff, half of my take-home pay... 570 00:59:01,936 --> 00:59:05,189 ...was from collectin' taxes on illegal jukes like this. 571 00:59:05,272 --> 00:59:07,149 Probably works the same here. 572 00:59:07,233 --> 00:59:11,195 I would think you'd haul in a tidy penny here, winkin' at the bootleggers. 573 00:59:11,278 --> 00:59:13,614 I wouldn't know nothin' about that. 574 00:59:13,698 --> 00:59:17,034 Yeah... A tidy penny. 575 00:59:20,246 --> 00:59:23,749 - Got anything stronger than this, Deputy ? - No. No, we ain't. 576 00:59:24,250 --> 00:59:25,793 Oh ? 577 00:59:25,876 --> 00:59:31,382 You know, in Thornton, Mississippi, there's a joy-juice still in every yard. 578 00:59:31,924 --> 00:59:35,678 All you need is just some corn and sugar and a pot to boil it in. 579 00:59:37,179 --> 00:59:39,723 I was tryin' to fingerprint this old boy once. 580 00:59:39,807 --> 00:59:42,434 He'd had his hand in the mash barrel all his life. 581 00:59:42,518 --> 00:59:45,688 There was no skin at all on there. No prints. 582 00:59:45,771 --> 00:59:49,233 We ain't interested in your good ol' Mississippi boy stories. 583 00:59:49,316 --> 00:59:51,568 You ain't from here no more. 584 00:59:53,153 --> 00:59:57,950 - Why'd you leave, anyway ? - I just wanted a change of scenery. 585 01:00:00,702 --> 01:00:03,914 The grits started leavin' a bad taste in my mouth. 586 01:00:03,997 --> 01:00:07,209 Well, if that's how you feel about it, Mr FBI Man, ... 587 01:00:07,292 --> 01:00:13,173 ...why don't you get back to your commie, nigger-lovin' bosses up North ? 588 01:00:13,257 --> 01:00:15,884 You must not know my boss, Mr Hoover. 589 01:00:15,968 --> 01:00:19,680 He's not too fond of commies. He'd be on your side there. 590 01:00:19,763 --> 01:00:23,725 I don't give two shits whose side your Mr Hoover's on, boy. 591 01:00:23,809 --> 01:00:29,022 All I know is we got 5,000 niggers in this county who ain't registered to vote yet. 592 01:00:29,106 --> 01:00:31,942 And, as far as I'm concerned, they never will. 593 01:00:32,025 --> 01:00:38,031 So tell your stiff suits up in Washington, DC, they ain't gonna change us one bit. 594 01:00:38,615 --> 01:00:42,911 Unless it's over my dead body. Or a lot of dead niggers. 595 01:00:46,873 --> 01:00:50,001 You'd kill, Frank ? Is that what you're sayin' ? 596 01:00:50,377 --> 01:00:54,589 I wouldn't give it no more thought than wringin' a cat's neck. 597 01:00:54,673 --> 01:00:58,343 And there ain't a court in Mississippi that'd convict me for it. 598 01:00:58,426 --> 01:01:00,512 How about you, Deputy ? 599 01:01:00,595 --> 01:01:04,724 - How are you with wringin' necks, huh ? - Just keep pushin' me, Hoover boy. 600 01:01:04,808 --> 01:01:07,185 You get this straight, you cornhole fucker. 601 01:01:07,268 --> 01:01:12,524 Tell your queer-ass bosses they'll never find them civil rightsters down here. 602 01:01:12,607 --> 01:01:16,861 So you might as well pack your bags and head up North where you belong. 603 01:01:19,072 --> 01:01:21,491 You get this straight, shitkicker. 604 01:01:21,574 --> 01:01:24,786 Don't you go mistakin' me for some whole other body. 605 01:01:24,869 --> 01:01:27,997 Your brain's in your dick if you think we'll just fade away. 606 01:01:28,081 --> 01:01:31,250 We're gonna be here till this thing's finished. 607 01:01:32,710 --> 01:01:35,505 How about you, Deputy ? 608 01:01:35,880 --> 01:01:38,633 Is that gun just for show ? 609 01:01:38,716 --> 01:01:42,095 Or do you get to shoot people once in a while ? 610 01:01:49,268 --> 01:01:52,104 Thanks for the beer. 611 01:01:57,485 --> 01:02:03,991 Ask them if they want to help save this country from the onslaught of integration. 612 01:02:04,075 --> 01:02:08,746 You know the system : they want to throw white children and coloured children... 613 01:02:08,829 --> 01:02:11,666 ...into the melting pot of integration, ... 614 01:02:11,749 --> 01:02:18,172 ...out of which will come a conglomerated, mulatto, mongrel class of people ! 615 01:02:18,255 --> 01:02:21,592 Both races will be destroyed in such a movement. 616 01:02:21,675 --> 01:02:26,889 I, for one, under God will die before I'll yield one inch... 617 01:02:26,972 --> 01:02:29,600 ...to that kind ofa movement in America. 618 01:02:31,977 --> 01:02:34,063 Do you know the trouble you've caused ? 619 01:02:34,146 --> 01:02:38,901 They've been on the radio all day, talkin' about FBI intimidation. 620 01:02:38,984 --> 01:02:42,488 We're not thugs, Mr Anderson. We're gonna do this thing my way. 621 01:02:42,571 --> 01:02:47,409 - I know. Bureau procedure. - Why were you at the beauty parlour ? 622 01:02:47,493 --> 01:02:51,330 If that was Bureau business, I wanna know about it. If not, I won't allow it. 623 01:02:51,413 --> 01:02:53,916 - Do you understand me ? ! - Get in here ! 624 01:02:56,460 --> 01:03:00,089 You know your problem ? You don't know when to speak and when to shut up ! 625 01:03:00,172 --> 01:03:02,758 That makes you a fool ! 626 01:03:02,841 --> 01:03:06,178 Mrs Pell won't say anything her husband doesn't want her to. 627 01:03:06,261 --> 01:03:08,347 And I'm not gonna choke it out of her ! 628 01:03:08,430 --> 01:03:12,100 This can of worms only opens from the inside. 629 01:03:17,898 --> 01:03:19,983 I know that. 630 01:03:27,324 --> 01:03:29,409 Freedom ! Freedom ! 631 01:03:29,493 --> 01:03:34,623 ("Try Jesus" by Vesta Williams) 632 01:03:37,334 --> 01:03:39,419 White nigger ! 633 01:03:42,380 --> 01:03:44,466 White niggers ! 634 01:03:47,761 --> 01:03:50,055 Hurry up ! Hurry up ! 635 01:03:50,138 --> 01:03:54,017 Freedom ! Freedom ! Freedom ! 636 01:04:02,692 --> 01:04:05,195 20 cents ? 637 01:04:08,531 --> 01:04:12,368 Freedom ! Freedom ! Freedom ! 638 01:04:14,370 --> 01:04:17,582 "Bring him" 639 01:04:17,999 --> 01:04:23,338 "Your burdens" 640 01:04:24,839 --> 01:04:30,637 "Seek not his favour" 641 01:04:31,471 --> 01:04:38,770 "Tell... tell him your sorrows" 642 01:04:45,985 --> 01:04:48,738 - Hi. - Hey, now ! 643 01:04:49,697 --> 01:04:54,160 Just passin' by. Just sayin' hello. You're not out watchin' the parade ? 644 01:04:54,243 --> 01:05:00,124 How come you don't ask me questions ? Everybody's been talked to 'cept me. 645 01:05:02,668 --> 01:05:06,631 Why don't you send some of them good-lookin' FBI boys to talk to me ? 646 01:05:07,465 --> 01:05:11,135 Sorry about the intrusion. I was at the hardware store and... 647 01:05:11,218 --> 01:05:14,096 - Pecan ? - I'm sick of pecans. 648 01:05:14,180 --> 01:05:17,350 Freedom ! Freedom ! 649 01:05:17,433 --> 01:05:20,811 - Are you willing to stand and fight ? - Yes ! 650 01:05:54,803 --> 01:05:57,097 How'd you find out about this ? 651 01:05:58,223 --> 01:06:00,517 Bureau procedure, Mr Ward. 652 01:06:12,654 --> 01:06:14,781 Sheriff Stuckey. 653 01:06:15,324 --> 01:06:17,492 He got his phone call. 654 01:06:20,329 --> 01:06:22,831 Wonder who else was called. 655 01:06:24,249 --> 01:06:26,752 Where you goin', boy ? 656 01:06:26,835 --> 01:06:29,338 Go on. Get outta here. 657 01:06:46,229 --> 01:06:48,315 Here they come. 658 01:06:56,114 --> 01:07:00,160 - Come on. Let's go. - We'll wait until they go back inside. 659 01:07:01,077 --> 01:07:03,163 Get him ! 660 01:07:07,000 --> 01:07:09,169 Get him into the goddamn truck ! 661 01:07:09,586 --> 01:07:12,380 Get inside, you sons of bitches. 662 01:07:13,757 --> 01:07:16,593 - Let's go ! - Wait until they go back inside ! 663 01:07:22,056 --> 01:07:24,517 Come on, Ward. Let's go. Come on ! 664 01:07:25,268 --> 01:07:27,145 Go on ! 665 01:08:34,587 --> 01:08:36,005 - Turn left ! - How do you know ? 666 01:08:36,088 --> 01:08:38,507 I don't. Just turn left. 667 01:08:41,635 --> 01:08:43,971 There's the truck. 668 01:08:44,054 --> 01:08:46,348 Go up that little road there. 669 01:08:50,019 --> 01:08:52,229 Stop, stop. 670 01:09:26,847 --> 01:09:29,057 What's wrong with these people ? 671 01:09:38,525 --> 01:09:43,780 Mrs Walker, I know this is difficult for you, but I really need your help. 672 01:09:43,864 --> 01:09:47,534 If you could just persuade your son to press charges, ... 673 01:09:47,617 --> 01:09:51,121 ...then we could pick up the deputy at least, right away. 674 01:09:51,204 --> 01:09:53,665 He won't talk to no one. 675 01:09:53,748 --> 01:09:57,586 - And it won't do no good anyway. - I promise you, it will. 676 01:09:57,961 --> 01:10:00,046 Leave him alone. 677 01:10:00,130 --> 01:10:02,424 Maybe then they'll let us alone. 678 01:10:14,978 --> 01:10:21,151 If this is a pattern, I guess at least we know what happened on June 21st. 679 01:10:21,234 --> 01:10:24,738 Pell stopped the three boys for speeding at three o'clock. 680 01:10:24,821 --> 01:10:28,032 He held them in jail until the Klan could get organised. 681 01:10:28,116 --> 01:10:33,121 Then he released 'em at 10.30. By that time, his buddies were ready and waiting. 682 01:10:33,204 --> 01:10:36,124 No. Pell went with 'em that night. I'm sure of it. 683 01:10:36,207 --> 01:10:37,709 Do you think he'll crack ? 684 01:10:37,792 --> 01:10:40,837 Down here they say rattlesnakes don't commit suicide. 685 01:10:50,555 --> 01:10:53,725 Did you release the three civil rights workers... 686 01:10:53,808 --> 01:10:57,478 ...into the hands of the Klan on the night of June 21st ? 687 01:10:57,562 --> 01:10:58,688 No. 688 01:10:58,771 --> 01:11:01,816 - Are you a member of the Ku Klux Klan ? - No. 689 01:11:02,358 --> 01:11:06,070 - Have you ever been a member ? - No. 690 01:11:06,154 --> 01:11:09,240 Are you familiar with the term Grand Cyclops ? 691 01:11:09,323 --> 01:11:10,992 I've heard of it. 692 01:11:11,075 --> 01:11:14,912 Were you in fact the Grand Cyclops of the East Mississippi Klavern... 693 01:11:14,996 --> 01:11:18,499 ...of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan for the past three years ? 694 01:11:18,583 --> 01:11:22,712 Objection. My client's already told you, he's not even a member of the Klan. 695 01:11:22,795 --> 01:11:27,800 Objection ? This is just an interview, sir. There's really no need to be so formal. 696 01:11:28,092 --> 01:11:34,432 Well, if this is just an interview, I guess I don't have to stay here. I got work to do. 697 01:11:36,517 --> 01:11:41,021 - I guess you do too, don't you ? - Yes, sir. You can be sure that we'll do it. 698 01:11:41,647 --> 01:11:43,732 Good luck. 699 01:11:44,692 --> 01:11:49,446 Y'all get enough to indict me, you know where to find me. 700 01:11:51,615 --> 01:11:53,450 - How'd it go ? - Fine. Just fine. 701 01:11:53,534 --> 01:11:56,078 Don't you worry about a goddamn thing. 702 01:11:57,162 --> 01:11:59,164 Are you about to be indicted ? 703 01:11:59,248 --> 01:12:02,209 Does the FBI have evidence against the sheriff's office ? 704 01:12:02,293 --> 01:12:06,213 - Are you cooperating with them ? - We're cooperatin'. We have all along. 705 01:12:06,297 --> 01:12:08,257 There's not one iota of proof. 706 01:12:08,340 --> 01:12:12,386 Could you not do that, please ? Sir, do not do that, please. 707 01:12:13,721 --> 01:12:16,932 You've already been told once ! Get the fuck outta here ! 708 01:12:19,309 --> 01:12:22,938 Do we have to tell you 2,000 times ? Go back where you belong ! 709 01:12:23,730 --> 01:12:26,150 Get outta my face ! 710 01:12:26,233 --> 01:12:29,361 Get on outta here and leave us alone ! Leave us alone ! 711 01:12:30,320 --> 01:12:33,448 Go on home where you belong, boy ! You're gonna get hurt ! 712 01:12:35,909 --> 01:12:39,204 Mr Ward, this is gettin' to be about as much as we can take. 713 01:12:39,288 --> 01:12:42,165 - I cannot register a stronger complaint. - Not now, sir. 714 01:12:42,249 --> 01:12:47,045 Now, just a minute. I resent your public pursuit of my sheriff's department. 715 01:12:47,129 --> 01:12:50,799 You have made every effort to implicate them in these disappearances. 716 01:12:50,882 --> 01:12:55,720 Your slimy innuendoes are not evidence that they were connected with any crime. 717 01:12:55,804 --> 01:12:58,682 We're trying to get to the truth. We're frustrated too. 718 01:12:58,765 --> 01:13:02,144 Any jackass can point a finger, but that ain't evidence. 719 01:13:02,227 --> 01:13:06,398 Us old cotton-choppers are still stupid enough to believe in democracy. 720 01:13:06,481 --> 01:13:11,111 - We know our rights under the law ! - You know somethin', all right. 721 01:13:11,194 --> 01:13:16,283 - I'd bet a cotton-choppin' dollar on that. - You're gettin' so far up my nose, ... 722 01:13:16,366 --> 01:13:19,327 ...I'm beginnin' to feel your boots on my chin. 723 01:13:19,411 --> 01:13:22,288 And I'm tellin' you one more time, Mr Apple Red. 724 01:13:22,372 --> 01:13:27,001 A couple of crazies in bedsheets dancin' round the countryside scarin' Negroes... 725 01:13:27,085 --> 01:13:30,088 ...is not the fault of the entire state of Mississippi ! 726 01:13:30,171 --> 01:13:35,802 There are three dead kids and a lot of scared people because of your sheriff. 727 01:13:35,885 --> 01:13:41,641 - So get used to havin' us around. - Get used to my boots on your chin too. 728 01:13:41,724 --> 01:13:43,810 And you people better back off. 729 01:13:45,144 --> 01:13:49,899 Goddamn FBI. Who do they think they are, comin' to my part of the country... 730 01:13:49,983 --> 01:13:53,403 - Do you have a statement, Mr Mayor ? - Goddamn right I have. 731 01:13:53,486 --> 01:13:56,280 For a moment there, Mr Anderson, ... 732 01:13:56,364 --> 01:13:59,492 ...it sounded like we were both on the same side. 733 01:14:27,270 --> 01:14:29,897 - Are you all right, honey ? - Yeah, I'm fine. 734 01:14:29,981 --> 01:14:33,234 - Let me know if you need anything. - Thanks. I will. 735 01:15:57,818 --> 01:15:59,486 Momma ! Come quick ! 736 01:16:16,044 --> 01:16:19,172 There's no sign of him, sir. He's long gone. 737 01:16:19,256 --> 01:16:23,051 His mother lives across the street. She won't even answer the door. 738 01:16:23,134 --> 01:16:26,721 I want the whole area covered. Someone must have seen something. 739 01:16:26,805 --> 01:16:29,057 - They won't talk to us. - Get going, Mr Bird. 740 01:16:29,140 --> 01:16:31,935 If they won't talk to us, shake it out of 'em. 741 01:16:35,230 --> 01:16:37,732 Let's go. Every house. Come on. 742 01:16:44,823 --> 01:16:46,574 What ? 743 01:16:46,658 --> 01:16:52,372 All these white guys chasin' around with their notebooks will get you nowhere. 744 01:16:52,455 --> 01:16:55,166 OK. What would you do ? 745 01:17:00,421 --> 01:17:02,924 It's OK to be afraid. 746 01:17:10,723 --> 01:17:14,894 Go on, Willie. Tell 'em what you saw. 747 01:17:48,761 --> 01:17:51,597 The defendants will rise. 748 01:17:54,475 --> 01:17:57,603 In this country a man's home is his castle. 749 01:17:58,896 --> 01:18:03,442 That is one of the principles by which this community survives. 750 01:18:03,526 --> 01:18:06,654 You men have done violence to that principle. 751 01:18:06,737 --> 01:18:09,823 But I want you to know that the court understands... 752 01:18:09,907 --> 01:18:14,411 ...that the crimes you have committed have been, to some extent at least, ... 753 01:18:14,495 --> 01:18:18,290 ...brought about by... outside influences. 754 01:18:27,174 --> 01:18:30,302 Outsiders have come into Jessup County... 755 01:18:30,385 --> 01:18:34,723 ...and they've been people of low morality, ... 756 01:18:34,807 --> 01:18:37,392 ...and unhygienic. 757 01:18:37,726 --> 01:18:41,063 And their presence here has provoked a lot of people. 758 01:18:43,774 --> 01:18:45,943 So the court understands, ... 759 01:18:46,026 --> 01:18:49,696 ...without condoning them, mind you, ... 760 01:18:49,780 --> 01:18:52,908 ...that the crimes to which you men have pled guilty... 761 01:18:52,991 --> 01:18:58,497 ...were, to some extent at least, provoked by these outside influences. 762 01:19:00,999 --> 01:19:05,420 So, with all this, I'm gonna make your punishment light. 763 01:19:06,421 --> 01:19:11,009 I'm gonna sentence you each to five years' imprisonment. 764 01:19:14,095 --> 01:19:16,640 But I'm gonna suspend these sentences. 765 01:19:51,341 --> 01:19:53,885 You can't go in there, sir. 766 01:19:53,968 --> 01:19:56,054 FBI. Let us through. 767 01:19:56,137 --> 01:19:58,556 I'm sorry, sir. You can't go in there. 768 01:20:03,978 --> 01:20:06,064 Sheriff ? 769 01:20:09,275 --> 01:20:11,694 Y'all really started somethin' this time. 770 01:20:11,778 --> 01:20:14,322 Move these cars. I wanna go in and talk to them. 771 01:20:14,405 --> 01:20:17,867 - You've gone as far as you're gonna go. - We can handle this. 772 01:20:17,950 --> 01:20:20,870 Just some crazy coloureds tearin' up their own assholes. 773 01:20:20,953 --> 01:20:23,039 Local problem. 774 01:20:38,971 --> 01:20:43,434 Look at those flames, Mr Ward. That's why they sent you down here, wasn't it ? 775 01:20:44,060 --> 01:20:47,480 It would've happened anyway and you know it. 776 01:20:48,689 --> 01:20:52,276 If I was a Negro, I'd probably think the same way they do. 777 01:20:52,735 --> 01:20:56,906 If you were a Negro, nobody'd give a damn what you thought. 778 01:21:53,837 --> 01:21:58,425 Aaron ! Take your momma, grandmomma and the children out the back door. 779 01:21:58,508 --> 01:22:02,888 When you hit the road, keep goin'. You understand ? Keep goin', son. 780 01:22:04,514 --> 01:22:06,892 Nathan ! Come on, Nathan. Get up ! 781 01:22:06,975 --> 01:22:10,103 Get up, Nathan, now ! Come on ! Get out of the bed ! 782 01:22:10,187 --> 01:22:14,691 - What's happening ? - Momma ! Come on, Momma. 783 01:22:17,360 --> 01:22:19,446 Come on, y'all. 784 01:22:20,238 --> 01:22:22,991 Come on, Grandma. Let's go ! 785 01:22:23,074 --> 01:22:26,203 ("Try Jesus" by Vesta Williams) 786 01:22:30,957 --> 01:22:38,673 "All ye who labour" 787 01:22:39,090 --> 01:22:44,179 Who's there ? lf you're in there, come on out ! You hear ? 788 01:22:44,971 --> 01:22:47,182 I ain't takin' this shit no more ! 789 01:23:02,030 --> 01:23:10,413 "Bring him your burdens" 790 01:23:11,998 --> 01:23:17,837 "Seek not his favour" 791 01:23:18,588 --> 01:23:26,679 "Tell... tell him your sorrows" 792 01:23:28,181 --> 01:23:38,608 "In... him... confide" 793 01:23:41,193 --> 01:23:45,114 "He satisfiies" 794 01:23:45,948 --> 01:23:49,869 "He satisfiies" 795 01:23:52,163 --> 01:23:54,123 Everything's OK, Papa. 796 01:23:54,498 --> 01:23:56,584 Momma and the girls are fine. 797 01:23:56,667 --> 01:24:00,171 They just cracked your head some. You just keep on breathin'. 798 01:24:00,254 --> 01:24:02,423 Don't you go dyin' on me now. 799 01:24:02,631 --> 01:24:04,717 You hear me ? 800 01:24:05,968 --> 01:24:07,970 You gonna be just fine. 801 01:24:34,830 --> 01:24:40,002 You know, cows won't run away. No one knows why. They're just stupid, I guess. 802 01:24:40,085 --> 01:24:45,716 They just stand there until their bellies swell up and they pop. 803 01:24:45,799 --> 01:24:48,594 They have relatives in Detroit. 804 01:24:49,386 --> 01:24:52,931 - Are they gonna go ? - I didn't give 'em any choice. 805 01:24:54,474 --> 01:24:57,603 At least we know who did this. 806 01:24:57,686 --> 01:25:00,522 - We did. - Well, don't fret. It's progress. 807 01:25:00,606 --> 01:25:05,027 20 years ago they'd have strung 'em up for stealin' a water melon. 808 01:25:05,110 --> 01:25:08,530 I don't understand you, Mr Anderson. Not at all. 809 01:25:09,948 --> 01:25:12,409 Let's get somethin' straight, all right ? 810 01:25:12,492 --> 01:25:16,621 This thing was fucked up the moment we turned it into a show for the newsmen. 811 01:25:16,705 --> 01:25:19,332 The moment those three kids disappeared, it was news. 812 01:25:19,416 --> 01:25:23,753 The moment the three civil rights workers disappeared, it was news. 813 01:25:23,837 --> 01:25:27,257 To me they're just kids. They're still missin'. 814 01:25:27,340 --> 01:25:31,887 What's missing... is the 50 minutes Pell said he was with his wife. 815 01:25:35,724 --> 01:25:37,809 OK. 816 01:25:53,491 --> 01:25:56,369 I love Mississippi. 817 01:26:07,171 --> 01:26:08,965 They... 818 01:26:09,048 --> 01:26:11,301 They hate Mississippi. 819 01:26:12,135 --> 01:26:15,930 They hate us because we present a shining example... 820 01:26:16,014 --> 01:26:19,267 ...of successful segregation. 821 01:26:19,350 --> 01:26:23,896 These Northern students, with their atheist, communist bosses, ... 822 01:26:23,980 --> 01:26:28,151 ...that have come into our community this summer with the wish to destroy it, ... 823 01:26:28,234 --> 01:26:31,863 ...this week have taken a terrible blow. 824 01:26:32,697 --> 01:26:36,409 This week their cause has been crippled. 825 01:26:36,492 --> 01:26:41,289 This week all of these federal policemen you see out here pryin' into our lives, ... 826 01:26:41,372 --> 01:26:43,332 ...violatin' our civil liberties, ... 827 01:26:43,416 --> 01:26:46,252 ...have learned that they are powerless against us... 828 01:26:46,335 --> 01:26:51,882 ...if every single Anglo-Saxon Christian one of us stands together ! 829 01:26:57,221 --> 01:26:58,431 This week... 830 01:26:59,932 --> 01:27:02,309 - Ward ? - We have company, sir. 831 01:27:03,477 --> 01:27:05,813 Why are you here ? This is a political meeting. 832 01:27:05,896 --> 01:27:10,151 - Doesn't smell that way to me, Deputy. - It's a political meeting, Hoover boy. 833 01:27:10,234 --> 01:27:15,823 Oh, it looks like a political meeting but smells more like Klan to me, ... 834 01:27:15,906 --> 01:27:19,201 ...with or without the Halloween costumes. 835 01:27:19,952 --> 01:27:21,662 Gentlemen. 836 01:27:21,745 --> 01:27:25,374 In the courts of Mississippi, they have been reminded... 837 01:27:25,457 --> 01:27:28,711 ...that they cannot by force turn our communities... 838 01:27:28,794 --> 01:27:31,297 ...into replicas of their communities. 839 01:27:31,380 --> 01:27:35,843 Communities in which Negroes run riot, unrestrained and unpunished, ... 840 01:27:35,926 --> 01:27:40,264 ...as they do this summer in the streets of Harlem, or in the streets of Oakland, ... 841 01:27:40,347 --> 01:27:42,516 ...or in the streets of Chicago ! 842 01:29:03,763 --> 01:29:06,057 Can I come in ? 843 01:29:14,524 --> 01:29:16,693 It's not good for you to be here. 844 01:29:16,776 --> 01:29:19,487 - Why ? - It's ugly. 845 01:29:20,405 --> 01:29:22,699 This whole thing is so ugly. 846 01:29:23,741 --> 01:29:27,495 Have you any idea what it's like to live with all this ? 847 01:29:28,371 --> 01:29:32,959 People look at us... and only see bigots and racists. 848 01:29:35,211 --> 01:29:38,339 Hatred isn't something you're born with. 849 01:29:38,423 --> 01:29:40,508 It gets taught. 850 01:29:42,260 --> 01:29:46,222 At school they said segregation is what it said in the Bible. 851 01:29:47,598 --> 01:29:51,477 Genesis 9, verse 27. 852 01:29:54,647 --> 01:29:59,568 At seven years of age, you get told it enough times, you believe it. 853 01:30:01,570 --> 01:30:03,698 You believe the hatred. 854 01:30:04,740 --> 01:30:08,452 You live it. You breathe it. 855 01:30:10,579 --> 01:30:12,665 You marry it. 856 01:30:43,070 --> 01:30:45,656 My husband drove one of the cars that night. 857 01:30:45,739 --> 01:30:49,159 - Shh. - That's what you wanna hear, isn't it ? 858 01:30:51,078 --> 01:30:56,208 The bodies are buried on the Roberts farm, in an earthen dam. 859 01:31:14,726 --> 01:31:16,395 Sir ! 860 01:31:29,116 --> 01:31:31,451 Take a break, Mr Bird. 861 01:31:31,535 --> 01:31:34,246 Put some handkerchiefs around your face. 862 01:31:47,550 --> 01:31:49,636 Bring that here. 863 01:32:04,067 --> 01:32:07,570 The bodies of the three civil rights workers were found today... 864 01:32:07,654 --> 01:32:10,031 ...at an undisclosed grave. 865 01:32:11,449 --> 01:32:15,995 Neither the FBI nor the sheriff's department will comment on the case. 866 01:32:16,079 --> 01:32:18,831 The bodies were brought to Jessup County Hospital. 867 01:32:18,915 --> 01:32:21,417 Officials here also refused comment. 868 01:32:21,501 --> 01:32:25,838 There is speculation that an autopsy will be performed later tonight. 869 01:32:27,966 --> 01:32:30,843 OK, keep it open. We're comin' through. 870 01:32:30,927 --> 01:32:33,596 Come on, open it up. 871 01:32:34,722 --> 01:32:36,641 Hold it back. 872 01:32:56,536 --> 01:32:59,413 Clinton, you got problems at home to tend to. 873 01:32:59,497 --> 01:33:01,040 What do you mean ? 874 01:33:01,123 --> 01:33:04,794 I mean pull your head out of your ass and get home ! 875 01:33:04,877 --> 01:33:09,382 "I, Vincent Thompson, am the cheddar-cheese champion of the world." 876 01:33:10,591 --> 01:33:16,013 "In international competition with 42 other entries, my cheddar won first prize... 877 01:33:16,097 --> 01:33:19,892 ...based on flavour, texture, appearance and colour." 878 01:33:24,814 --> 01:33:28,484 Hey, Clinton. I didn't expect you home so early. 879 01:33:29,735 --> 01:33:31,904 Hi, Frank. 880 01:33:42,539 --> 01:33:44,833 No, don't. I'm sorry. 881 01:33:58,597 --> 01:34:00,682 Sir. 882 01:34:02,768 --> 01:34:04,853 Say again ? 883 01:34:06,188 --> 01:34:08,273 I'll be right there. 884 01:34:13,070 --> 01:34:15,405 - Mr Bird. - Yes, sir ? 885 01:34:15,489 --> 01:34:17,574 Get five men and meet me outside. 886 01:34:19,952 --> 01:34:23,080 - Where's Anderson ? - He's at the motel, sir. 887 01:34:27,751 --> 01:34:31,838 You two take the front door. If anyone tries to get past you, break 'em down. 888 01:34:31,922 --> 01:34:34,883 You two take the door on the corridor. Mr Bird ? 889 01:34:36,593 --> 01:34:40,597 OK. Go get Anderson. Bring him here. 890 01:34:40,680 --> 01:34:45,477 Don't tell him why. Don't tell him anything. Just get him here. 891 01:35:16,800 --> 01:35:19,010 Mr Anderson. Stop ! 892 01:35:19,093 --> 01:35:20,762 - Mr Anderson ! - Go to hell. 893 01:35:20,845 --> 01:35:24,390 I'm telling you to stop and I mean it. We're not killers. 894 01:35:24,474 --> 01:35:28,561 - It's the difference between them and us. - No, between them and you ! 895 01:35:28,645 --> 01:35:31,022 - You're no more like them than I am. - Wrong. 896 01:35:31,105 --> 01:35:34,692 What do you care what I do to a bastard hidin' behind a sheriff's badge ? 897 01:35:34,776 --> 01:35:37,904 - You have the whole world to change ! - And I'm changin' it. 898 01:35:37,987 --> 01:35:41,574 - You're as arrogant as you are stupid ! - You're changin' it too. 899 01:35:41,657 --> 01:35:43,659 I'll make some changes right now ! 900 01:35:43,743 --> 01:35:48,122 Don't mess this up just because you like foolin' around with witnesses. 901 01:35:57,965 --> 01:36:00,176 A gun don't mean shit unless you use it. 902 01:36:00,259 --> 01:36:04,388 - I'll kill you now if you don't listen to me. - Fuck you. 903 01:36:04,472 --> 01:36:06,557 Let me go. Let me go. 904 01:36:08,893 --> 01:36:13,314 - We'll go after all of 'em, together. - You wouldn't know how ! 905 01:36:13,397 --> 01:36:16,025 - You'll teach me. - You don't have the guts. 906 01:36:16,108 --> 01:36:19,320 Not only do I have the guts, I have the authority. 907 01:36:19,403 --> 01:36:21,489 What is that supposed to mean ? 908 01:36:21,572 --> 01:36:26,744 New rules. We nail 'em any way we can. Even your way. 909 01:36:26,827 --> 01:36:29,747 Is this you talkin' or some guy pullin' your strings ? 910 01:36:29,830 --> 01:36:31,874 Both. 911 01:36:31,957 --> 01:36:34,043 - We do it my way. - Your way. 912 01:36:34,168 --> 01:36:36,837 - With my people ! - Whatever it takes. 913 01:36:38,714 --> 01:36:40,591 OK. 914 01:36:46,639 --> 01:36:48,724 Gimme a minute. 915 01:36:56,398 --> 01:36:59,360 - You think he would've shot me ? - Oh, yes, sir. 916 01:37:00,569 --> 01:37:03,113 He's a ballsy little bastard, isn't he ? 917 01:37:11,163 --> 01:37:13,707 They want me to say "Let us not forget... 918 01:37:13,790 --> 01:37:18,837 ...that two white boys also died helping Negroes help themselves." 919 01:37:21,965 --> 01:37:27,346 They want me to say "We mourn with the mothers of these two white boys." 920 01:37:30,515 --> 01:37:34,895 But the state of Mississippi won't even allow these white boys... 921 01:37:34,978 --> 01:37:38,523 ...to be buried in the same cemetery as this Negro boy. 922 01:37:41,276 --> 01:37:45,572 I say I have no more love to give. 923 01:37:45,655 --> 01:37:48,742 I have only angerin my heart today, ... 924 01:37:48,825 --> 01:37:52,412 ...and I want you to be angry with me ! 925 01:37:52,495 --> 01:37:55,040 Now, I am sick and I am tired, ... 926 01:37:55,123 --> 01:37:58,376 ...and I want you to be sick and tired with me ! 927 01:37:58,460 --> 01:38:02,714 I... I... I am sick and tired of going to the funerals... 928 01:38:02,797 --> 01:38:06,551 ...of black men who have been murdered by white men ! 929 01:38:06,635 --> 01:38:10,638 I... I am sick and tired of the people of this country... 930 01:38:10,722 --> 01:38:14,768 ...who continue to allow these things to happen ! 931 01:38:14,851 --> 01:38:19,522 What is an "inalienable right" if you are a Negro ? 932 01:38:19,606 --> 01:38:23,026 What does it mean, "equal treatment under the law" ? 933 01:38:23,109 --> 01:38:27,739 What does it mean, "Liberty and justice for all" ? 934 01:38:28,656 --> 01:38:31,034 Now I say to these people : 935 01:38:31,117 --> 01:38:36,998 Look at the face ofthis young man and you will see the face of a black man. 936 01:38:37,081 --> 01:38:41,294 But, if you look at the bloodshed, it is red. It is like yours ! 937 01:38:41,377 --> 01:38:43,796 It is just like yours ! 938 01:40:14,178 --> 01:40:15,721 You... 939 01:40:18,348 --> 01:40:20,434 I'm gonna tell you a story. 940 01:40:22,269 --> 01:40:27,566 A young kid named Homer Wilkes lives about 30 miles north of here. 941 01:40:27,649 --> 01:40:33,238 He'd just taken his girlfriend home and was walkin' back along the road... 942 01:40:33,322 --> 01:40:35,657 ...when a car pulled up. 943 01:40:35,741 --> 01:40:38,493 Three white boys took him for a ride. 944 01:40:42,539 --> 01:40:44,207 Now... 945 01:40:45,250 --> 01:40:47,961 ...he hadn't done anything, ... 946 01:40:49,671 --> 01:40:51,756 ...except... 947 01:40:52,674 --> 01:40:54,759 ...be a Negro. 948 01:40:57,512 --> 01:40:59,806 And they took him to a shack. 949 01:41:00,432 --> 01:41:03,143 A shack like... Iike this one. 950 01:41:04,102 --> 01:41:07,188 And they took out a razor blade, ... 951 01:41:07,272 --> 01:41:11,067 ...a regular old razor blade, like this one, ... 952 01:41:13,361 --> 01:41:16,489 ...and they pulled down his pants... 953 01:41:19,284 --> 01:41:21,995 ...and they spread his legs... 954 01:41:23,455 --> 01:41:26,416 ...and they sliced off his scrotum. 955 01:41:29,377 --> 01:41:31,462 Put it in a coffee cup. 956 01:41:36,426 --> 01:41:42,348 And do you know how much you bleed when somebody cuts off your balls ? 957 01:41:42,432 --> 01:41:44,517 Huh ? ! 958 01:41:47,186 --> 01:41:52,859 When they found Homer, he looked like he'd been dipped in blood up to his waist. 959 01:41:52,942 --> 01:41:56,362 He was barely alive when they got him to the hospital. 960 01:41:56,446 --> 01:41:58,990 He can hardly walk now. 961 01:42:09,083 --> 01:42:11,252 Mayor, we know you know... 962 01:42:11,335 --> 01:42:15,506 ...who was there when those three civil rights boys was murdered. 963 01:42:15,590 --> 01:42:18,134 We know you know who pulled the trigger. 964 01:42:24,181 --> 01:42:26,684 Is there somethin' you wanna say to me ? 965 01:42:33,315 --> 01:42:35,401 OK ! 966 01:42:40,030 --> 01:42:43,909 - Is he with the Bureau ? - Yeah. He's kind of a specialist. 967 01:42:43,993 --> 01:42:47,329 - You're sure the mayor won't talk ? - No, they'd kill him ! 968 01:42:47,413 --> 01:42:50,082 All right. What do you have ? 969 01:42:50,165 --> 01:42:54,044 There were three cars and seven men. Pell and Bailey did the killing. 970 01:42:54,128 --> 01:42:57,214 - Sheriff Stuckey ? - He was too smart to be there. 971 01:42:57,298 --> 01:42:59,967 - So Pell pulled the trigger for him. - And Townley ? 972 01:43:00,050 --> 01:43:04,013 It was his idea. Grand Dragons, they don't get their hands dirty. 973 01:43:04,096 --> 01:43:07,641 The whole thing, huh ? Bullet by bullet. 974 01:43:09,101 --> 01:43:15,691 I don't suppose you're interested in words like "coercion" or "hearsay" or "duress". 975 01:43:15,774 --> 01:43:18,068 This is no good in court. 976 01:43:18,152 --> 01:43:22,030 We're not in court, Mr Ward. We'll never get 'em on murder anyway. 977 01:43:22,114 --> 01:43:25,993 That's a state charge. These hayseeds will never prosecute. 978 01:43:26,076 --> 01:43:29,288 - I know that ! - We've got to get 'em in federal court ! 979 01:43:29,371 --> 01:43:33,500 - Violation of civil rights ! - Remember whose rights you're violatin' ! 980 01:43:33,584 --> 01:43:37,504 - Don't put me on your perch, Mr Ward ! - Don't drag me into your gutter ! 981 01:43:37,587 --> 01:43:40,590 These people crawled out of a sewer, Mr Ward ! 982 01:43:40,674 --> 01:43:43,385 And maybe the gutter's where we should be ! 983 01:43:49,099 --> 01:43:51,184 Thank you. 984 01:44:14,749 --> 01:44:16,835 This better be important. 985 01:44:25,301 --> 01:44:27,804 Who the hell called this meeting ? 986 01:44:30,432 --> 01:44:33,726 - We thought you did. - Of this group ? Are you stupid ? 987 01:44:34,310 --> 01:44:36,521 You didn't call this ? Shit. 988 01:44:36,604 --> 01:44:39,774 - If you didn't call this, who the fuck did ? - Shut up. 989 01:44:39,858 --> 01:44:44,696 Is this some kind of bullshit setup ? Ray, are you sure you didn't call this ? 990 01:44:44,779 --> 01:44:49,075 'Cause I got a note from my wife and it said it was from you and Clinton. 991 01:44:49,158 --> 01:44:51,536 Lester, shut up ! 992 01:44:53,204 --> 01:44:57,542 Now, we're all gonna walk straight outta here... 993 01:44:57,625 --> 01:44:59,711 ...and say nothing. 994 01:45:00,044 --> 01:45:02,130 That means nothin', Lester. 995 01:45:02,213 --> 01:45:05,133 - First one who opens his mouth is dead. - Shut up. 996 01:45:06,259 --> 01:45:08,219 Hey, Clinton. 997 01:45:11,973 --> 01:45:13,015 Clinton. 998 01:45:17,144 --> 01:45:21,274 Looks like the rattlesnakes are startin' to commit suicide. 999 01:45:48,759 --> 01:45:50,845 Hi, Lester. 1000 01:45:55,766 --> 01:45:58,811 We'll give you that ride home. 1001 01:45:59,395 --> 01:46:01,188 What ? 1002 01:46:01,272 --> 01:46:05,234 Well, I know you said 4.30 but we're runnin' a little late, so... 1003 01:46:05,317 --> 01:46:08,028 - I'll meet you in the car. - You're cracked. 1004 01:46:10,155 --> 01:46:12,241 Do you have change of a 20 ? 1005 01:46:13,283 --> 01:46:15,369 Sure. 1006 01:46:20,541 --> 01:46:22,543 Get in the car, Lester. 1007 01:46:22,626 --> 01:46:26,672 Or you'll have a hard time pickin' your nose once I've closed this drawer. 1008 01:46:30,509 --> 01:46:34,972 Lester, you could make it a lot easier on yourself by goin' on the record right now. 1009 01:46:35,055 --> 01:46:40,185 I ain't got nothin' to say. You barkin' up the wrong tree, mister. 1010 01:46:41,228 --> 01:46:45,065 Lester, I gotta tell you somethin'. We got you cold. 1011 01:46:45,148 --> 01:46:48,026 Your buddies have already talked. 1012 01:46:48,777 --> 01:46:50,862 You're lyin'. 1013 01:46:55,617 --> 01:47:01,665 You're in a lot of trouble. We know you drove the second vehicle, the green truck. 1014 01:47:01,748 --> 01:47:05,377 And your buddy says... Refresh my memory here, Mr Bird. 1015 01:47:05,460 --> 01:47:09,130 "Lester Cowens kicked the Negro twice in the face and then shot him." 1016 01:47:09,214 --> 01:47:12,592 - That's a goddamn lie. - No, it's true. What else, Mr Bird ? 1017 01:47:12,676 --> 01:47:17,722 Lester Cowens said "They only left me a nigger, but at least I shot me a nigger." 1018 01:47:20,183 --> 01:47:24,354 - I didn't kill him. I shot him in the ass. - We know that. 1019 01:47:24,980 --> 01:47:29,442 He was already dead by the time you shot him. But your buddy sees it differently. 1020 01:47:29,526 --> 01:47:34,406 Your buddy tells it that you killed the kid. You either go on the record right now... 1021 01:47:34,489 --> 01:47:39,077 ...or it's gonna be your ass we're talkin' about, not just a black kid's ! 1022 01:47:52,674 --> 01:47:56,511 Think about it, Lester. Come on out of there. 1023 01:47:58,388 --> 01:48:00,473 Come on out. 1024 01:48:43,683 --> 01:48:45,768 This is tricky. 1025 01:48:46,644 --> 01:48:49,355 They make it look so easy, don't they ? 1026 01:48:51,315 --> 01:48:53,901 I got a question for you, Clinton. 1027 01:48:54,985 --> 01:48:58,113 You don't mind if I call you Clinton, do you ? 1028 01:48:58,197 --> 01:49:00,699 I feel like I know you so well. 1029 01:49:03,118 --> 01:49:06,664 The way we have it, on the night of the murders... 1030 01:49:06,747 --> 01:49:10,459 ...you made a short speech as the bulldozer buried the kids in the dam. 1031 01:49:10,918 --> 01:49:12,753 How does Lester tell it ? 1032 01:49:12,836 --> 01:49:17,966 "Mississippi will be proud of you. You've struck a blow for the white man." 1033 01:49:18,050 --> 01:49:21,220 Is that what you said, Clinton ? Hm ? 1034 01:49:21,637 --> 01:49:24,181 Is that what you said ? 1035 01:49:24,264 --> 01:49:26,141 It must've been you... 1036 01:49:26,225 --> 01:49:30,521 ...because Clayton Townley and Ray Stuckey were too smart to be there. 1037 01:49:31,647 --> 01:49:36,485 And you was too stupid to think anybody'd remember what you said. 1038 01:49:36,568 --> 01:49:38,862 But old Lester, he got a good memory. 1039 01:49:43,575 --> 01:49:47,245 I'm sorry. I haven't done this for a long time. 1040 01:49:47,746 --> 01:49:52,709 Did you make a speech the night that you beat up your wife, Clinton ? Huh ? 1041 01:49:53,126 --> 01:49:55,295 Did ya ? 1042 01:49:55,379 --> 01:49:58,548 Did you strike a blow for the white man that night ? 1043 01:50:03,095 --> 01:50:05,889 You got a stupid smile. You know that, Pell ? 1044 01:50:05,972 --> 01:50:09,059 Can you see it ? Huh ? Good ! 1045 01:50:09,935 --> 01:50:14,606 Did you smile when the bulldozer ran over the black kid's body ? Did ya ? ! 1046 01:50:18,818 --> 01:50:22,364 Did you smile when the bodies were covered over ? Did ya ? ! 1047 01:50:22,530 --> 01:50:25,367 Get up here. Come on. Get up ! 1048 01:50:25,450 --> 01:50:28,620 Did you smile that same stupid smile, huh ? ! 1049 01:50:28,703 --> 01:50:30,622 Did ya ? ! You... 1050 01:50:35,543 --> 01:50:39,380 Did ya smile, Pell ? Did ya smile ? ! 1051 01:50:39,464 --> 01:50:41,966 Huh ? ! Did ya ? ! 1052 01:50:47,305 --> 01:50:49,682 Make no mistake about it, Deputy. 1053 01:50:49,766 --> 01:50:56,022 I'll cut your fuckin' head off and not give a shit how it reads in the report sheet. 1054 01:51:18,127 --> 01:51:20,213 One more bite. One more bite. 1055 01:51:21,339 --> 01:51:23,841 One more bite, darlin'. One more bite. 1056 01:51:40,858 --> 01:51:44,820 - Shit, Lester ! What the fuck is goin' on ? ! - Shut up ! 1057 01:51:44,904 --> 01:51:48,741 Get in the bedroom and lock the door ! And stay away from the windows ! 1058 01:52:00,002 --> 01:52:01,879 Shit. 1059 01:53:06,068 --> 01:53:08,612 Please. Please ! I didn't say a thing ! 1060 01:53:08,695 --> 01:53:12,824 I swear ! It's a setup ! I didn't say nothin' ! I didn't say nothin' ! 1061 01:53:13,867 --> 01:53:18,538 Nothin' ! I didn't say nothin' ! I didn't say nothin' ! 1062 01:53:26,004 --> 01:53:28,465 I didn't say nothin' ! 1063 01:53:48,485 --> 01:53:51,821 You're lucky we've been watchin' your ass, Lester. 1064 01:53:54,365 --> 01:54:00,121 If you go on the record, Mr Cowens, we'll give you protection. If not... 1065 01:54:00,205 --> 01:54:03,666 If not, they're gonna kill you anyway. 1066 01:54:04,042 --> 01:54:07,253 Oh. You need a toilet, Lester. 1067 01:54:32,403 --> 01:54:34,488 We really had him goin', huh ? 1068 01:55:18,866 --> 01:55:21,493 We'll take care of the check, Mr Swilley. 1069 01:55:45,934 --> 01:55:48,937 Well, I suppose I'll... be back for supper. 1070 01:55:58,447 --> 01:56:00,949 Button up, Wesley. 1071 01:57:16,274 --> 01:57:18,735 Why did he do it ? 1072 01:57:18,818 --> 01:57:22,989 He wasn't even in on it. Wasn't even Klan. 1073 01:57:24,115 --> 01:57:26,409 Mr Bird, he was guilty. 1074 01:57:27,326 --> 01:57:32,415 Anyone's guilty who watches this happen and pretends it isn't. 1075 01:57:32,498 --> 01:57:35,668 No. He was guilty all right. 1076 01:57:36,419 --> 01:57:39,922 Just as guilty as the fanatics who pulled the trigger. 1077 01:57:42,049 --> 01:57:43,259 Maybe we all are. 1078 01:58:37,813 --> 01:58:39,898 Hello ! 1079 01:58:40,941 --> 01:58:43,068 Yeah. 1080 01:58:48,991 --> 01:58:53,620 I just missed you at the hospital. They said you'd gone home. 1081 01:58:54,496 --> 01:58:57,124 What's left of it. 1082 01:58:58,041 --> 01:59:01,169 - I'm real sorry. - So am I. 1083 01:59:02,588 --> 01:59:05,716 - What are you gonna do ? - I don't know. 1084 01:59:08,427 --> 01:59:11,847 - Where will you go ? - I'm not goin' anywhere. I'm stayin'. 1085 01:59:11,930 --> 01:59:14,516 This is my home. Born here. 1086 01:59:16,059 --> 01:59:18,145 Probably die here. 1087 01:59:21,648 --> 01:59:25,777 If I wanted to leave, I would've done it a long time ago. 1088 01:59:25,861 --> 01:59:28,155 Things'll work out. 1089 01:59:28,238 --> 01:59:32,409 There's enough good people around here know what I did was right. 1090 01:59:32,492 --> 01:59:36,663 And enough ladies like the way I fix their hair. 1091 01:59:51,469 --> 01:59:53,263 Hey. 1092 01:59:54,597 --> 01:59:57,183 If you're ever in Des Moines, ... 1093 01:59:57,267 --> 01:59:59,352 ...don't send me a postcard. 1094 02:00:00,019 --> 02:00:02,105 OK. 1095 02:00:10,029 --> 02:00:15,243 "We cannot see" 1096 02:00:15,910 --> 02:00:18,746 "In the future" 1097 02:00:19,205 --> 02:00:23,584 "No, no, no, no, no" 1098 02:00:24,627 --> 02:00:27,755 "And it's hard" 1099 02:00:28,381 --> 02:00:31,718 "To smile" 1100 02:00:32,260 --> 02:00:35,346 "Through trials" 1101 02:00:36,764 --> 02:00:43,771 "No, we cannot see" 1102 02:00:44,689 --> 02:00:50,069 "Every pitfall" 1103 02:00:51,279 --> 02:00:54,365 "But we must walk on" 1104 02:00:55,241 --> 02:00:58,369 "By faith" 1105 02:00:58,953 --> 02:01:01,539 "Each day" 1106 02:01:01,872 --> 02:01:05,167 "Oh, Lord" 1107 02:01:06,043 --> 02:01:11,257 "Whoa, on Monday" 1108 02:01:12,049 --> 02:01:16,178 "Walk on" 1109 02:01:16,595 --> 02:01:18,889 "And on Tuesday" 1110 02:01:18,973 --> 02:01:21,934 "Walk on" 1111 02:01:22,017 --> 02:01:28,274 - "Whoa, let Jesus" - "Let Jesus be" 1112 02:01:29,108 --> 02:01:34,530 - "Let him be your" - "Your guide" 1113 02:01:34,613 --> 02:01:36,448 "Whoo-oo-oo" 1114 02:01:36,532 --> 02:01:39,743 "He's able" 1115 02:01:39,827 --> 02:01:42,538 "He could carry your load" 1116 02:01:42,621 --> 02:01:49,294 "And he could see way down the road" 1117 02:01:49,378 --> 02:01:52,422 "Walk on" 1118 02:01:54,633 --> 02:01:56,718 You wanna drive, Rupert ? 1119 02:01:59,263 --> 02:02:01,348 Yeah. 1120 02:02:03,433 --> 02:02:05,894 "On Monday" 1121 02:02:05,978 --> 02:02:09,815 "Walk on" 1122 02:02:09,898 --> 02:02:15,696 - "And on Tuesday" - "Walk on" 1123 02:02:15,779 --> 02:02:21,243 "Let Jesus be" 1124 02:02:21,326 --> 02:02:26,498 - "Let him be your" - "Your guide" 1125 02:02:28,417 --> 02:02:32,170 - "He's able" - "To carry your load" 1126 02:02:32,254 --> 02:02:34,422 "To carry your load" 1127 02:02:34,506 --> 02:02:39,928 "And he can see way down the road" 1128 02:02:40,971 --> 02:02:43,056 "Walk on..." 1129 02:02:55,068 --> 02:02:58,196 ("Walk on by Faith" by Lannie Spann McBride)