The film stars Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe as two FBI agents assigned to investigate the disappearance of three civil rights workers in fictional Jessup County, Mississippi. The investigation is met with hostility by the town's residents, local police, and the Ku Klux Klan.
<span>The Committees of Correspondence were organized by "Samuel Adams," however it should be noted that many historians find it difficult to cite a specific founder. </span>
