The Past Is Never Dead: The Trial of James Ford Seale and Mississippi's Struggle for Redemption
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On May 2 1964 Klansman James Ford Seale picked up two black hitchhikers and drowned both young men in the Mississippi River. Seale spent more than forty years a free man before finally facing trial in 2007. There could have been two defendants in the resulting case: James Ford Seale for kidnapping and murder and the State of Mississippi for complicityknowingly aiding abetting and creating men like Seale. In The Past Is Never Dead best-selling author Harry MacLean follows Seales trial the legal difficulties of prosecuting kidnapping and murder charges decades after the fact and the strain on a state contending with a past that cant be forgiven. MacLeans narrative is at once the account of a gripping legal battle and an acute meditation on the possibility of redemption.
