Alan Parker’s Mississippi Burning plunges into the rot of American racism, following FBI agents investigating the murder of ...

Legendary actor Gene Hackman, who died Feb. 26 with his wife and dog at his home in New Mexico, starred in "Mississippi Burning" and other MS-related films.

Before burning the ... Imperial Wizard of Mississippi’s White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. (Bowers had a particular antipathy toward Schwerner, and had begun planning his murder in the spring ...

In the wake of the sad news of the death of the Oscar-winning star, film fans may want to be reminded of some of his best ...

Nevin Whetstone, serving a life sentence for capital murder, escaped from the Mississippi State Penitentiary on Tuesday, ...

Mississippi Burning. In this 1988 historical drama, Hackman delivers a riveting performance as FBI Agent Rupert Anderson, delving into the murder of civil rights workers in 1960s Mississippi with ...

So who were these murder victims and why did they die ... On the morning of June 21, 1964, the three men set out for the little Mississippi town of Philadelphia where they were to investigate the ...