Today in History: Murder in Mississippi

Did Mississippi Burning really happen? On June 21, 1964, three young civil rights workers were murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Their bodies were discovered a few weeks later. Here’s is the original New York Times story about the crime: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0621.html#article If Hollywood gets its way, the civil rights movement was saved when Gene Hackman and Willem [...]