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Title: The Past Is Never Dead
Subtitle: The Trial of James Ford Seale and Mississippi's Struggle for Redemption
Author: Harry N. MacLean
Narrator: Lee David Foreman
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-21-15
Publisher: harry n. maclean
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Nonfiction, True Crime
Publisher's Summary:
On May 2, 1964, Klansman James Ford Seale picked up two black hitchhikers and drowned the young men in the Mississippi River. Seale spent more than 40 years a free man, before finally facing trial in 2007. But there could have been two defendants in the resulting case: James Ford Seale for kidnapping and murder, and the State of Mississippi for complicity - knowingly aiding, abetting, and creating men like Seale.
In The Past is Never Dead, Edgar Award-winning author Harry MacLean follows Seale's trial, the legal difficulties of prosecuting kidnapping and murder charges decades later, and the strain on a state contending with a past that cannot be forgiven. MacLean's narrative is the account of a gripping legal battle and an acute meditation on the possibility of redemption.
Members Reviews:
Mississippi's Attempt at Atonement
On a steamy May Saturday in 1964,two young black men, still very much alive, were chained to engine blocks and heaved over the side of a boat into a tributary of the Mississippi River. Just outsife Meadeville, Misss.
Harry N. MacLean's compelling new book about the trial of James Ford Seale, the Klan member finally being tried for the crimes, tells the sordid tale of the Klan run wild in rural Mississippi in the '50s and '60s and their many well-known murders, some made famous on film.
But McLean, who spent weeks in the courtroom talking with the observers and trial participants, also believes that by the state's revisiting the decades old crime, Mississippi is hoping to atone for those sins.
A lawyer himself, and author of the best-selling true crime novel "In Broad Daylight", gives poignant descriptions of the trial victims and their survivors, the now very old and very ill defendant, his mostly absent family, the top-of-the-line attorneys and those who have just come to watch and listen and comment.
But he also takes us across the state to towns from the Gulf Coast to the piney hills and even to the Ole Miss vs. LSU football game to help us understand the perceptions of the the state's past and present of today's Mississipians.
Forget "Mississippi Burning"
The past isn't always about honor and glory - often it's about shame and violence. It's hard to read about the awful things that happened in the "south" in the 60's during the civil rights conflict but since this is a vital part of our countries history we need to remember those troubled times. A time when the Ku klux klan fought civil rights by intimidations, beatings, burnings and grizzly murders. "The Past Is Never Dead" is an important book especially since the "Past" isn't dead and Mississippi seems to be taking most of the blame for the violence. Take another look at Mississippi as it seeks redemption. Read MacLean's book as he covers the James Ford Seale Trial and his look into what Mississippians are doing to redeem themselves and their State from old stereotypes.
Sit in on the drama of the trial of Mr. Seale for the burtal murders of Charles Moore and Henry Dee some 43 years after the fact. Jury selection begins May 4, 2007 both jury selection and the main act of the trial are fascinating.
