Klansmen target in movie
* The film on South Pacific Television tonight, “F.B.L — Attack On Terror,” is the first part of the dramatisation of one of the most celebrated trials in American history. The drama deals with the murder in 1964 in Mississippi of three young civil-rights workers. Under direct orders from President Lyndon Johnson, the vast resources of the F.B.L were brought in to the case to discover the identities of the killers, whose actions outraged the nation.
The two-part film (part two will be shown next Tuesday, October 11) encompasses the most dramatic aspects of the prosecution of the Ku Klux Klansmen, which covered a four-year span.
Part one deals primarily with the crime, and part two with its solution and presecution. The stars include Wayne Rogers (formerly of “M.A.S.H.”), Billy Greenbush, father of the Greenbush twins, who play Carrie in “Little House on the Prairie,” Andrew Duggan, Peter Strauss, Marlyn Mason, John Beck and Rip Torn.
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