Their efforts helped pave the way for the passage of the landmark Voting Rights Act in 1965 and their murders were dramatized in the 1988 movie "Mississippi Burning." Andy Goodman's fateful ...

They later became the subject of the film Mississippi Burning. Their relatives said the focus should not be only on the three men, but on all the people killed or hurt while seeking justice.

Both were going to investigate a church burning and Ben wanted to go ... and his eventual return to Mississippi to seek justice for his brother. Few knew that when Ben collapsed into his ...

Mississippi Burning, abbreviated to MIBURN. FBI What is known of the men’s final hours – at the hands of Mississippi law enforcement and local Ku Klux Klan members – is detailed in ...

The FBI began investigating and dubbed their probe "Mississippi Burning," or "MIBURN" for short. Forty-four days later, agents made a grisly discovery — the trio had been shot to death and their ...

Throughout Mississippi and the south ... They were hatemongers, extremists who were burning down churches and beating up congregants. ‘The feeling around [now] feels like that sometimes ...

This comment was immortalized by the late, great Gene Hackman in his role as FBI Agent Rupert Anderson in the 1988 film “Mississippi Burning.” As an experienced operative, he was advocating ...

Think “Mississippi Burning” (1988), a highly entertaining movie that finds two of J. Edgar Hoover’s white FBI agents (Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe) coming to save the day after three civil ...

The British cinematographer, who won an Oscar for “Mississippi Burning,” and was BAFTA nominated for “The Truman Show,” will receive the festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Mississippi Burning, abbreviated to MIBURN. What is known of the men’s final hours – at the hands of Mississippi law enforcement and local Ku Klux Klan members – is detailed in hundreds of ...