I just watched this again today and watched the made for TV "Attack on Terror" when I was young, which had a huge influence on me as a teenager. I just thought it might be interesting to find out what happened to the men after they got out of prison. What were their lives like? That sort of thing.
Does anyone know if any thing was ever written about this?
I'll have to research it to find out. But I'm sure in real life they served no real time. BUT, I could have sworn several years ago one of the people that this movie based on just got out.
I would have loved to ask the Frank Bailey character myself that if every single black person was forced to leave Mississippi and move somewhere else, would he be happy? I say no, he was just an angry, miserable, self-hating redneck SOB.
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Dying due to injuries from falling off of a lift is not dying of old age.
shareSince they were convicted in federal prison, they served every day of their sentence. Rules are different in federal prison than state prison.
share10 years for 3 murders. One served 4 years. I've seen men serve more for beating someone up. It's fcking incredible the bullsh!t Mississippi got away with- then and now.
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I've never met a racist person, just a scared and uneducated person.
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Google them.
shareProbably a mixed bag. They probably had some supporters in the community, but assuming they were behind bars for a few years I'd wager the community mostly forgets about them.
They were largely blue collar guys (excepting the Grand Wizard dude), so they got out broke, alienated/divorced from their spouses and possibly shunned by at least part of the community (the TV news "interviews" showed some whites were sympathetic to negro mistreatment).
The sheriff maybe keeps his job, maybe even wins a sympathy re-election if its close to the end of his trial. But he might have been seen as vulnerable, and the town's real shot callers might have decided that they needed to clean house with new faces to keep the FBI out of their hair. Not that any new sheriff would have been anymore tolerant of civil rights, but perhaps willing to keep his deputies on a shorter leash and not directly involved in KKK activities.