Film: Mississippi Burning
Sunday, 11 Feb 1990 at 4:00 pm – Varsity Theater, Campus Town
Oscar winner Gene Hackman and Willem Defoe star in this controversial motion picture which examines the FBI's role in the 1964 investigation of the disappearance of three Civil Rights workers. Alan Parker directed this powerful motion picture which captures the terror of the times.Part of the National Affairs Series
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