Bibliograph

Murder in Mississippi, John Safran

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Murder in Mississippi, John Safran

Language

eng

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contains biographical information

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Murder in Mississippi

Responsibility statement

John Safran

Summary

When filming his TV series Race Relations, John Safran spent an uneasy couple of days with one of Mississippi's most notorious white supremacists. A year later, he heard that the man had been murdered - and what was more, the killer was black. At first the murder seemed a twist on the old Deep South race crimes. But then more news rolled in. Maybe it was a dispute over money, or most intriguingly, over sex. Could the infamous racist actually have been secretly gay, with a thing for black men? Did Safran have the last footage of him alive? Could this be the story of a lifetime? Seizing his Truman Capote moment, he jumped on a plane to cover the trial

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Murder in Mississippi, the true story of how I met a white supremacist, befriended his black killer and wrote this book

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