:12:03
We think it might be a little
more serious than missing persons.
:12:07
I don't think so, boy.
Know what I think it is?
:12:10
It's a publicity stunt cooked up
by that Martin Luther King fella.
:12:14
Come on.
:12:28
At around 3pm, Deputy Pell says
he arrested the three boys for speeding.
:12:32
He held them in jail until 10pm
and then released them.
:12:36
They drove off. He says he followed them
as far as the county line...
:12:39
...and never saw them again.
:12:43
Why didn't they make a phone call?
:12:45
- Why should they?
- These boys were trained activists.
:12:49
They're taught to check in every hour and,
if arrested, the moment they're released.
:12:53
The hotel is near the jail. They could've
phoned from the lobby. It doesn't follow.
:12:59
Maybe they had a beer.
- Not these boys.
:13:01
The civil rights office in Rossville started
making calls when they didn't check in.
:13:05
The sheriff's office here said
they had no idea where the boys were.
:13:10
First lie.
:13:14
By who?
Sheriff's office or civil rights office?
:13:17
Who would you believe?
:13:19
Mr. Ward, I was a sheriff in a little
Mississippi town just like this.
:13:23
- Yes, I'm aware of that.
- Well, lyin' just don't come into it.
:13:26
We were ten miles from Memphis,
a million miles from the rest of the world.
:13:30
If a sheriff in a town like this says that's
what happened, that's what happened.
:13:35
Let's go eat.
:13:50
We're full up, honey.
Y'all wanna wait a while?
:13:53
- Is the wait worth it?
- We're not full for nothin', sugar.
:13:56
Y'all wanna look at a menu
while you wait?
:13:58
Thank you.