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

Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
Title card
Genre	Drama
Written by	Don Whitehead Calvin Clements
Directed by	Marvin J. Chomsky
Starring	Ned Beatty John Beck
Music by	Mundell Lowe
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producer	Quinn Martin
Producer	Philip Saltzman
Production locations	Bastrop, Texas San Marcos, Texas Sam Houston National Forest Coldspring, Texas Huntsville, Texas Groveton, Texas
Cinematography	Jacques R. Marquette
Editor	Jerry Young
Running time	215 minutes
Production companies	Quinn Martin Productions Warner Bros. Television
Original release
Network	CBS
Release	February 20 (1975-02-20) – February 21, 1975 (1975-02-21)

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 later 1988 movie Mississippi Burning, though some names and details were changed, and the approximate storyline of both productions is preceded by the events portrayed in the 1990 TV movie Murder in Mississippi.

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").

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Selected cast

Ned Beatty as Deputy Sheriff Ollie Thompson (fictionalized representation of Cecil Price)
John Beck as George Greg
George Grizzard as Attorney Clay
Rip Torn as Imperial Wizard Glen Tuttle (fictionalized representation of Sam Bowers)
Wayne Rogers as FBI Special Agent Don Foster (fictionalized representation of John Proctor)
Dabney Coleman as FBI Special Agent Paul Mathison
Andrew Duggan as FBI Inspector Ryder (fictionalized representation of Joseph Sullivan)
James Hampton as Harry Dudley (KKK member)
Billy Green Bush as Dave Keene (KKK member)
L. Q. Jones as Officer Roy Ralstop (KKK member)
Mills Watson as Dee Malcom (KKK member)
Peter Strauss as Ben Jacobs (fictionalized representation of assassination victim Michael Schwerner)
Hilly Hicks as Charles Gilmore (fictionalized representation of assassination victim James Chaney)
Andrew Parks as Steven Bronson (fictionalized representation of assassination victim Andrew Goodman)
Ed Flanders as Ralph Paine (fictionalized representation of Justice Department Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights John Doar)
Luke Askew as Aaron Cord (fictionalized representation of Alton Wayne Roberts)
Geoffrey Lewis as Sheriff Ed Duncan (fictionalized representation of Lawrence Rainey)
Paulene Myers as Mrs. Gilmore (fictionalized representation of Fannie Lee Chaney)
Sheila Larken as Linn Jacobs (fictionalized representation of Rita Schwerner)

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]