Editing Mississippi Burning (section)

==Cast==
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* [[Gene Hackman]] as FBI Agent Rupert Anderson (based on [[John Proctor (FBI agent)|John Proctor]])<ref name="Parker" /><ref name="Peoplemag">{{cite news |last1=McWhorter |first1=Diane |title=Since Mississippi Burned |url=https://people.com/archive/since-mississippi-burned-vol-31-no-1/ |access-date=5 February 2025 |work=[[People (magazine)|People]] |date=January 9, 1989 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170407194012/https://people.com/archive/since-mississippi-burned-vol-31-no-1/ |archive-date=April 7, 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Willem Dafoe]] as FBI Agent Alan Ward (based on [[Joseph Sullivan (FBI agent)|Joseph Sullivan]])<ref>{{cite web |last1=Andrews |first1=Candice Gaukel |title=The Code-Breaker and the G-Man — Part 2 |url=http://waa.uwalumni.com/onwisconsin/winter02/code2.html |website=On Wisconsin |access-date=5 February 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100721052139/http://waa.uwalumni.com/onwisconsin/winter02/code2.html |archive-date=July 21, 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=Bailey>{{cite book |editor1-last=Bailey |editor1-first=Frankie Y. |editor2-last=Chermak |editor2-first=Steven |title=Crime and Trials of the 20th Century |date=2007 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1573569736 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XRjOEAAAQBAJ |page=[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Crimes_and_Trials_of_the_Century/XRjOEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA262 262] |access-date=5 February 2025}}</ref>
* [[Frances McDormand]] as Mrs. Pell (based on [[Cecil Price|Conner Price]])<ref name="Tunzelmann">{{cite news |last1=von Tunzelmann |first1=Alex |title=Mississippi Burning: a civil rights story of good intentions and suspect politics |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/apr/10/reel-history-mississippi-burning |access-date=5 February 2025 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=10 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151007113711/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/apr/10/reel-history-mississippi-burning |archive-date=7 October 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Brad Dourif]] as Deputy Sheriff Clinton Pell (based on [[Cecil Price]])<ref name=Bailey/>
* [[R. Lee Ermey]] as Mayor Tilman (based on Abner Davis "Ab" Harbour)
* [[Gailard Sartain]] as Ray Stuckey, Sheriff of Jessup County (based on [[Lawrence A. Rainey]])<ref name="Spokane" />
* [[Stephen Tobolowsky]] as Clayton Townley (based on [[Samuel Bowers]])
* [[Michael Rooker]] as Frank Bailey (based on [[Alton Wayne Roberts]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Alton Wayne Roberts, right punches CBS cameraman Laurens Pierce outside the Federal Building in Meridian, Miss., Jan. 27, 1965. |url=http://www.apimages.com/metadata/Index/Associated-Press-Domestic-News-Mississippi-Unit-/7e3d82e2c3e3da11af9f0014c2589dfb |access-date=5 February 2025 |work=AP Newsroom |date=February 1, 2006}}</ref>
* [[Pruitt Taylor Vince]] as Lester Cowens (based on [[Jimmy Snowden]])
* Stephen Bridgewater as Wesley Cooke
* [[Badja Djola]] as FBI Agent Monk 
* [[Kevin Dunn]] as FBI Agent Bird
* [[Frankie Faison]] as Eulogist
* [[Darius McCrary]] as Aaron, Eulogist's Son
* [[Tobin Bell]] as FBI Agent Stokes
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