Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan

Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan is a 1975 American two-part made-for-television drama film which dramatizes the events following the 1964 abduction and murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in Mississippi. In this, it is similar in theme to the 1988 movie Mississippi Burning, though some names and details were changed, and both productions pick up the approximate storyline of the 1990 TV-movie Murder in Mississippi.

Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
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GenreDrama
Written byDon Whitehead
Calvin Clements
Directed byMarvin J. Chomsky
StarringNed Beatty
John Beck
Music byMundell Lowe
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producerQuinn Martin
ProducersPhilip Saltzman
Russell Stoneham (supervising producer)
Bernard R. Goodman (associate producer)
Production locationsGroveton, Texas
CinematographyJacques R. Marquette
EditorJerry Young
Running time215 minutes
Production companiesQuinn Martin Productions
Warner Bros. Television
DistributorCBS
Release
Original networkCBS
Original releaseFebruary 20 –
21, 1975

Attack on Terror starred Ned Beatty, John Beck, Marlyn Mason, Billy Green Bush, Dabney Coleman, Virginia Gregg, George Grizzard, Rip Torn, Sheila Larken, Hilly Hicks, and two M*A*S*H alumni, Wayne Rogers ("Trapper John") and Johnny Haymer ("Sgt. Zale").

Selected cast

Production

The Calvin Clements script was based on Don Whitehead's book, Attack on Terror: The F.B.I. Against the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi by Don Whitehead (pub. Funk & Wagnalls, 1970).

Accolades

Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan was nominated for an Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Art Direction for Variety or Nonfiction Programming.[1]

See also

References
  1. https://www.emmys.com/shows/attack-terror-fbi-versus-ku-klux-klan


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