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The Trial of James Ford Seale and Mississippi's Struggle for Redemption
Basic Civitas Books
October 2009
On Sale: September 22, 2009
304 pages
ISBN: 0465005047
EAN: 9780465005048
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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
complicity—knowingly aiding, abetting, and creating men
like Seale.
In The Past Is Never Dead, best-selling author Harry
MacLean follows Seale’s 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
can’t be forgiven. MacLean’s narrative is at once the
account of a gripping legal battle and an acute meditation
on the possibility of redemption.
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