See The Picture Above? The Thug On the Right (Neshoba County Sheriff, Lawrence Rainey) Was an Honored Guest Speaker at My High School While He Was Under Federal Indictment in the Mississippi Burning Murders.
As most of you know, I've mostly made my living over the last couple of decades working the crime beat in America, specifically murder: the baseball bat murders in New Orleans, the Simpson murders in Los Angeles, the Ennis Cosby murder, also in L.A., the Kimes "mother and son grifter team" murders in New York and Los Angeles, etc., plus all of the little trials that no publishers wanted but were somewhat better served because a journalist the court recognized was sitting in the usually almost empty gallery as Larry Longo (for example) made a fool of some sic 'em prosecutor who really didn't know his case.
But I stopped covering murder not long before I came to China. And I have not regretted it. Till now.
I would very much like to be in Mississippi at this moment covering the trial of Edgar Ray Killen all these decades after the murders of the civil rights workers Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman. But I cannot.
Also, at this moment, I cannot write about it--tell a personal tale of connection--because since I somehow got involved in acting in movies in Beijing my discretionary time has been limited at best.
But I wanted to introduce you to a site where you can refresh your memories if you're my age, or catch up on recent history if you're a generation or two younger. Please click on the link below, and remember...or learn.
