U.s. V. Cecil Price Et. Al.

THE VERDICT

Guilty verdicts were returned against:

Cecil Price , the chief deputy sheriff of Neshoba County

Sam H. Bowers, Jr. , of Laurel , the Imperial Wizard of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

Horace Doyle Barnette , a one-time Meridian salesman

Jimmy Arledge , a Meridian truck driver

Billy Wayne Posey , a Williamsville service station operator

Jimmie Snowden , a Meridian laundry truck driver

Alton W. Roberts , a Meridian salesman

Not guilty verdicts were returned for:

Lawrence A. Rainey , the Sheriff of Neshoba County

Bernard L. Akin , a Meridian housetrailer dealer

Travis M. Barnette , a Meridian mechanic and half-brother of Horace Doyle Barnette

James T. Harris , a Meridian truck driver

Frank J. Herndon , the operator of a Meridian drive-in restaurant

Olen L. Burrage , the owner of the farm on which the bodies of Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman were buried

Herman Tucker , the builder of the dam in which the bodies were found

Richard A. Willis , a one-time Philadelphia policeman

No verdict was reached for:

Edgar Ray Killen , a fundamentalist minister and sawmill operator, however on June 21 2005 he was found guilty of 3 counts of Manslaughter

Ethel Glen Barnett , the Democratic nominee for Neshoba County sheriff

Jerry McGrew Sharpe , a pulpwood hauler

THE JURY

An all-white, mostly working-class jury consisting of five men and seven women heard the case. The jurors were:

Langdon Smith Anderson (foreman), a Lumberton oil exploration operator and member of the State Agricultural and Industrial Board

Mrs. S.M. Green, a Hattiesburg housewife

Mrs. Lessie Lowery, a Hiwannee grocery store owner

Howard O. Winborn, a Petal pipefitter

Harmon W. Rasberry, a Stonewall textile worker

Mrs. Gussie B. Staton, a Union housewife

Jessie P. Hollingsworth, a Moss Point electrician

Mrs. James C. Heflin, a Lake production worker

Mrs. Nell B. Dedeaux, a Lumberton housewife

Willie V. Arneson, a Meridian secretary

Edsell Z. Parks, a Brandon clerk

Adelaide H. Comer, a cook at an Ocean Springs school cafeteria

FILM ADAPTATION

In 1988 , a Film was made based on the trial and the events surrounding it, entitled '' Mississippi Burning ''. It starred Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe as two FBI agents who travel to Mississippi to uncover the events surrounding the murder of three civil rights workers.

Several of the fictitious characters in the movie were based on real-life defendants in the trial. For instance, Deputy Sheriff Clinton Pell (played by Brad Dourif ) was based on Cecil Ray Price, Sheriff Ray Stuckey (played by Gailard Sartain ) was based on Sheriff Lawrence Rainey, and Frank Bailey (played by Michael Rooker ) was based on Alton W. Roberts. The film also starred R. Lee Ermey and Frances McDormand .

SEE ALSO

List Of United States Supreme Court Cases, Volume 383

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