Kill-in.

Name: Kill-in.
Author: William Bradford Huie

Roman. Aus dem Amerikanischen von Hans Erik Hausner. Originaltitel: 'The Klansman'.

von William Bradford Huie Verlag: Wien / Hamburg, Paul Zsolnay Verlag,

Deutsche Erstausgabe - Erschienen 1968. - 22,4 cm. Schwarzes Leinen mit Schutzumschlag und Kopffarbschnitt.

369 (3) Seiten. Umschlaggestaltung von Hannes Jähn. Guter Zustand. - William Bradford "Bill" Huie (November 13, 1910 – November 20, 1986) was an American journalist and novelist. He wrote several books about controversial topics related to World War II and the Civil Rights Movement. He was also known for the practice of checkbook journalism, paying subjects to gain interviews and articles about them. In January 1956 he published an interview in Look magazine in which the two white men who killed Emmett Till admitted their guilt and described their crime. They had been acquitted at trial several months previously by an all-white jury. Huie had several of his books adapted as feature films during the 1960s and 1970s. ... Huie also reported on the lynching of African-American Chicago teenager Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi in 1955. After an all-white jury found the two defendants not guilty, Huie paid the men $4, 000 for an interview. They described how and why they committed the murder, and were protected by double jeopardy from being tried again for the crime. Huie published his account in Look magazine in January 1956. Some mainstream journalists criticized what they called his "checkbook journalism".[8] Huie also published a full-length book on the case, Wolf Whistle (1959). Simeon Wright, Till's cousin and an eyewitness to the events at the store and to Till's abduction, refuted the killers' version in his 2010 memoir, written with Her Boyd, Simeon's Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till.[9] Huie also reported on various Ku Klux Klan activities, including the 1964 killing of "Freedom Summer" workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner. His books on the latter included The Klansman (1965) and Three Lives for Mississippi (1965). The KKK to burned a cross on his front lawn in 1967 to try to intimidate him. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC), wrote the Introduction for the second edition of Huie's Three Lives for Mississippi. He said that it "is a part of the arsenal decent Americans can employ to make democracy for all truly a birthright and not a distant dream. It relates the story of an atrocity committed on our doorstep." Subsequent editions of the work include an "Afterword" by Juan Williams. In 1970, Huie published He Slew the Dreamer, an account of the Memphis assassination of King, for which he had interviewed assassin James Earl Ray. Huie's book The Execution of Private Slovik (1954) related the historic account of World War II G.I. Eddie Slovik, the only soldier since the American Civil War to be executed for desertion. The government had kept this quiet, not telling his widow how he died. After the book revealed Slovik's story, Huie and others tried for years to get the government to pay his widow a pension, but had no success. He had discussions with Frank Sinatra about adapting the work as a movie. Sinatra dropped it in 1960 due to objections to his choice of screenwriter, a man who was one of the Hollywood Ten blacklisted after refusing to testify to HUAC. The singer was campaigning at the time for John F. Kennedy as president. The book was later adapted as a television movie, entitled as The Execution of Private Slovik (1974), starring Martin Sheen, and aired by NBC. ... From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - The Klansman is a 1974 American drama film based on the book of the same name by William Bradford Huie. It was directed by Terence Young and starred Lee Marvin, Richard Burton, O. J. Simpson (in his feature film debut), Lola Falana and Linda Evans.

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