There's a famous photo of Sheriff Lawrence Rainey laughing with a plug of Red Man in his cheek, as his arrest in the "Mississippi Burning" case was initially dismissed.
I didn't realize that the makers of Red Man thanked him for the promotional plug by sending him two dozen packets and a love note.
My father - himself no one's idea of a progressive - was an airline pilot fond of noting that on approach to Jackson-Medgar Evers Int'l Airport, you fly past the Ross Barnett Reservoir. Barnett, of course, shook Byron de la Beckwith's hand in the middle of proceedings in one of his murder trials.
I read about this long ago. So glad this sob is gone, just sorry he never found the rope. I guess a long slow painful cancer of the throat and tongue was nature and karma doing their best to inflict appropriate payback. Grrrrrrrrrrrr
