After three civil-rights workers are murdered in Mississippi in 1964, a team of FBI agents is sent there to find the killers.

Ned Beatty
as Ollie Thompson

John Beck
as Rev. George Greg

Billy Green Bush
as Dave Keene

Dabney Coleman
as Paul Mathison

Andrew Duggan
as Insp. Ryder

Ed Flanders
as Ralph Paine

George Grizzard
as Attorney Clay

L.Q. Jones
as Roy Ralstop

Geoffrey Lewis
as Ed Duncan

Marlyn Mason
as Jean Foster