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Mississippi Burning, Movie, 1988 
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Aircraft at: http://impdb.org/index.php?title=Mississippi_Burning |
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The film was based on the original FBI investigation into disappearance and murders of the three civil-rights workers who were lynched and shot by members of the Mississippi White Knights of Ku Klux Klan at a secluded intersection of Neshoba County Road 515 (Rock Cut Road) and Neshoba County Road 284, just outside Philadelphia in Neshoba County, Mississippi on night of the 21st June 1964. The characters in the film are based on the those who were responsible for the murders and those who involved in the investigation or were associated with events: Rupert Anderson (portrayed by Gene Hackman) - Based on John Proctor, Alabama-born US Navy veteran and special Agent with the FBI Mississippi Branch based at Meridian, Mississippi had contacts with KKK members, local law enforcements and other residents throughout the Southern States and took part in the investigation of the murders, retired from the FBI in 1978 and started a detective agency, died at a retirement home in Meridian on the 30th May 1999. Alan Ward (portrayed by Willem Dafoe) - Based on Joseph Sullivan, the former head of the FBI Texas and Alaska Branches and FBI Major Case Inspector with the FBI Tennessee Branch based at Memphis, Tennessee, was in charge of the investigation in the Civil Rights Workers' murders, later involved in the investigations of the assassination of civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr who was in Memphis on the 4th April 1968, the murders of the United Mine Workers labour leader, Joseph "Jock" Yablonski who along with Yablonski's wife, Margaret and their 25-year-old daughter, Charlotte were shot at their home in Clarksville, Pennsylvania on the 31st December 1969 by former house painter, Paul Gilly (who was the son-in-law of a UMW official) and Gilly's accomplices, Aubran Martin and Claude Vealey under the orders of Yablonski's opponent and then current UMW president, William "Tough Tony" Boyle, the arrest of serial bomber, Samuel Grossman (or known as Samuel Melville) on the 7th March 1970 in New York, the shooting deaths of four students at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio by members of the Ohio National Guard on the 4th May 1970, and the bombing of the Army Mathematics Research Centre at Sterling Hall on the University of Wisconsin Madison campus in Madison, Wisconsin on the 24th August 1970, retired from the FBI in 1977, died at a retired home in New York on the 2nd August 2002. Clayton Townley (portrayed by Stephen Tobolowsky) - Based on Samuel Bowers, the Grand Imperial Wizard of the Mississippi White Knights Branch and local businessman, was involved in the planning to kill the men. Bowers was later convicted in 1998 for the murder of the president of the NAACP Forrest County Branch, Vernon Dahmer who was burned in a fire-bombing attack of his family home and store at Hattiesburg, Mississippi on the night of the 10th January 1966. He later died in the hospital wing of the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman in Sunflower County, Mississippi on the 5th November 2006. Sheriff Ray Stuckey (portrayed by Gailard Sartain) - Based on Lawrence Rainey, the Sheriff of Neshoba County, was with relatives 26 miles (41km) south of Philadelphia at Collinsville in neighbouring Lauderdale County on the night of the murders, later suspected of covering the murders up, indicted for his part in the murders on the 15th January 1965 but was later acquitted in 1967. Following his acquittal, Rainey left the Sheriff Office in 1968 and went through a string of jobs, later died in Kemper County, Mississippi on the 8th November 2002. Clinton Pell (portrayed by Brad Dourif) - Based on Cecil Price, the Deputy Sheriff of Neshoba County, was the one who stop the missing men's car hours prior to the murders and held the men in the Neshoba County Jail until the Klan was ready and had taken part in the murders, convicted of violation of the victims' civil rights and sentenced to six years imprisonment in 1968, later released in 1974. After his release, went onto help former NFL player, Marcus Dupree to get his commercial driving license, died from injuries sustained in a fall on the 6th May 2001. Frank Bailey (portrayed by Michael Rooker) - Based on Alton Wayne Roberts, truck driver, salesman, and bar owner, was one of the men who shot the three civil workers, later photographed assaulting CBS cameraman, Laurens Pierce outside the federal courthouse in Meridian, Mississippi on the 27 January 1965, convicted of convicted of violation of the victims' civil rights and sentenced to ten years imprisonment in 1967, later released after six years. Lester Cowens (portrayed by Pruitt Taylor Vince) - Based on James Snowden, known as Jimmy, truck driver, was one of the men who took part in the murders and had drove the missing men's car after the murders and dumped and burnt the car. Agent Monk (portrayed by Badja Djola) - Based on Gregory Scarpa, known as the Grim Reaper and the Mad Hatter, Capo of the Colombo Crime Family, hitman and FBI informant, was flown out to Mississippi by the FBI to gain information about the location of the civil rights workers' bodies, allegedly kidnapped TV salesman and KKK member, Lawrence Byrd from Byrd's store in Meridian, Mississippi and took him to Camp Shelby army base in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where Scarpa pistol whipped Byrd to extract the information about the location of the bodies, later took part in the investigation into the 1966 murder of the president of the NAACP Forest County Branch, Vernon Dahmer. After returning to from New York, Scarpa was dropped as an informant, but was later reinstated as an FBI informant. He was later indicted for running a credit card scam in 1980 and sentenced to five years' probation and fined $10,000, contracted HIV while in hospital for ulcer surgery in 1986. He then survived an assassination attempt when rebel members of the Colombo Mob under the leader of the rebel Colombo Mob fraction, Victor Orena had shot at his car while following the car containing Scarpa's daughter, Linda and her 22-month-old son in Brooklyn on the 18th November 1991. Arrested for violating state firearms law after his medical malpractice suit against the hospital in 1992 and indicted on federal charges including three murders, later lost his eye in a shootout with members of Lucchese Crime Family, Michael DeRosa and Ronald Moran outside DeRosa's home on the night of the 29th December 1992 after DeRosa and Moran threaten Scarpa's son, Joey over botched drug deal, resulting his bail being revoked. Convicted on all charges in 1993 and sentenced to life imprisonment, later reduced to 10 years, died of HIV complications at FMC Rochester in Rochester, Minnesota on the 4th June 1994. After Scarpa's death, FBI Special Agent Lindley DeVecchio who had been Scarpa's handler since the 1960s and the one who had reinstated him in 1980, was forced to resign from the FBI in 1996. In 2006, DeVecchio was indicted for his involvement with Scarpa in complicity to four murders in the 1980s and the 1990s, but charges were dismissed at the request of the New York District Attorney Office on the 1st November 2007. Mayor Tillman (portrayed by R Lee Emery) - Based on Abner Davis Harbour, known as Ab, The Mayor of Philidelphia, Mississippi from 1961 to 1968, made statements concerning the arrivals of the civil rights workers into Philidelphia and warned the civil rights workers to inform the local law enforcement upon their arrival as a "safety precaution", left office in 1968, died on the 12th July 1972. The case led to President Johnson to sign the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. -- Last edit: 2023-12-21 03:57:42 |
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![[Image: tt.3.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/10795/tt.3.jpg) A bunch of housekeeping: - replaced screencaps with HD ones - added timestamps - removed duplicate vehicles/corrected vehicle info - fixed star ratings on some vehicles - added new vehicles |
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◊ 2015-10-26 22:07 |
Thanks for that update, achiu31. More visible details helped a lot for some identifications. |
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◊ 2021-07-28 20:51 |
Hello all, My name is Guillem Bassa and i send this mail from Mallorca. I'm in searching information about the cars of this film, for made one diorama 1/64 scale. I Have problems to find images to any cars and i have the hope to found help in this group. Regards G.B |
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