Neshoba County was a quiet part of Mississippi that suddenly faced the
scrutiny of the world in 1964 when three civil rights activists --
Jewish New Yorkers Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman and
African-American Mississippian James Chaney -- were captured by members
of the Ku Klux Klan after they were arrested for speeding. The three men
were found murdered after a careful search, but despite overwhelming
evidence, three of the Klansmen who committed the crime went free when
their jury could not deliver a verdict. One of them,
Edgar Ray Killen,
bragged at length to friends and acquaintances about his role in the
murder, and in 2004 a group of Mississippians came forward to demand a
new trial for
Killen, hoping to see justice done at last. However, bringing
Killen to trial proved no simple task; filmmakers
Micki Dickoff and
Tony Pagano examine the crimes of 1964, the efforts to retry
Killen, the mixed emotions of the community, and the curious life of the unrepentant racist criminal in the documentary
Neshoba. The film was an official selection at the 2009 San Francisco Documentary Film Festival.
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