:12:01
Well, hell.
Looks like we got some company.
:12:04
Some Hoover boys come down to visit.
:12:06
- How ya doin'?
- Good.
:12:09
- I'm Sheriff Stuckey.
- Rupert Anderson.
:12:11
Rupert, we've been expectin' you.
:12:14
- I assume you met my deputy, Mr. Pell.
- Sure did.
:12:19
You down here to help us
solve our nigger problems?
:12:21
No. It's just a missing-person case.
:12:25
Well, come on.
:12:27
- You gonna want your boy in on this?
- Sheriff...
:12:30
I'm Special Agent Ward
and I'm in charge of this case.
:12:34
We think it might be a little
more serious than missing persons.
:12:38
I don't think so, boy.
Know what I think it is?
:12:41
It's a publicity stunt cooked up
by that Martin Luther King fella.
:12:45
Come on.
:13:00
At around 3pm, Deputy Pell says
he arrested the three boys for speeding.
:13:04
He held them in jail until 10pm
and then released them.
:13:08
They drove off. He says he followed them
as far as the county line...
:13:12
...and never saw them again.
:13:16
Why didn't they make a phone call?
:13:18
- Why should they?
- These boys were trained activists.
:13:22
They're taught to check in every hour and,
if arrested, the moment they're released.
:13:26
The hotel is near the jail. They could've
phoned from the lobby. It doesn't follow.
:13:32
Maybe they had a beer.
- Not these boys.
:13:35
The civil rights office in Rossville started
making calls when they didn't check in.
:13:39
The sheriff's office here said
they had no idea where the boys were.
:13:44
First lie.
:13:48
By who?
Sheriff's office or civil rights office?
:13:51
Who would you believe?
:13:53
Mr. Ward, I was a sheriff in a little
Mississippi town just like this.
:13:57
- Yes, I'm aware of that.
- Well, lyin' just don't come into it.