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MISSISSIPPI BURNING is the name of a motion picture, released in 1988, starring Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe, loosely based on the murders of 3 civil rights workers in Mississippi, during the “Freedom Summer” of 1964. James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were lured to Philadelphia, Mississippi, and executed by the Ku Klux Klan. No one was ever prosecuted for their murders, until over 40 years later when Jerry Mitchell, an investigative reporter with The Clarion-Ledger, in Jackson, Mississippi, convinced authorities to reopen more than one cold murder case from the civil rights era, prompting one colleague to call him "the South's Simon Wiesenthal."
Author John Grisham wrote of Mr. Mitchell: “For almost two decades, investigative journalist Jerry Mitchell doggedly pursued the Klansmen responsible for some of
It is my honor to welcome Jerry Mitchell to MURDER MOST FOUL.
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MISSISSIPPI BURNING is the name of a motion picture, released in 1988, starring Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe, loosely based on the murders of 3 civil rights workers in Mississippi, during the “Freedom Summer” of 1964. James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were lured to Philadelphia, Mississippi, and executed by the Ku Klux Klan. No one was ever prosecuted for their murders, until over 40 years later when Jerry Mitchell, an investigative reporter with The Clarion-Ledger, in Jackson, Mississippi, convinced authorities to reopen more than one cold murder case from the civil rights era, prompting one colleague to call him "the South's Simon Wiesenthal."
Author John Grisham wrote of Mr. Mitchell: “For almost two decades, investigative journalist Jerry Mitchell doggedly pursued the Klansmen responsible for some of
It is my honor to welcome Jerry Mitchell to MURDER MOST FOUL.

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