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We ain't too interested in your good ol' Mississippi boy stories, Anderson. You ain't from here no more.
~ Deputy Sheriff Clinton Pell rebuffing FBI agent Rupert Anderson's attempt to ingratiate himself with Pell and his fellow Klansmen.

Deputy Sheriff Clinton Pell, also known as Deputy Clinton Pell or simply Deputy Pell, is the main antagonist of the 1988 biographical crime thriller Mississippi Burning, directed by Alan Parker and loosely based on the 1964 murder investigation of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Pell serves as the Deputy Sheriff of the fictional Jessup County, Mississippi and the Grand Cyclops of the East Mississippi Klavern of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

He was portrayed by Brad Dourif, who also played Chucky in the Child's Play franchise, Jack Dante in Death MachineGríma Wormtongue in the The Lord of the Rings film franchise, the Gemini Killer in The Exorcist III: Legion, Adam Rain in Criminal Minds, Mathias in Fading of the Cries and Piter de Vries in David Lynch's dune.

Biography[]

Born and raised in rural Mississippi during the Jim Crow era, Pell is a dyed-in-the-wool defender and proponent of racial segregation.

He soon became a low-rank cop who worked his way up until his promotion to deputy sheriff, under the command of Sheriff Stuckey.

Mississippi Burning[]

One night in Jessup County, Mississippi in June 1964, Pell, after releasing three civil rights workers from detention, leads six other Klansmen in three cars to chase after them and ram their car. After chasing the civil rights workers for a short period of time, Pell turns on the police lights atop his car to signal the trio to pull over. Upon bringing them to a stop, the Klansman promptly murder the trio, set their car ablaze and then dispose of it in a swamp, and bury their bodies in an earthen dam.

Personality[]

Furthermore, as a Klansman with a deeply ingrained hatred of African-Americans, Hispanic and Latino Americans, Spanish Americans, French, Italians, Jews, Catholics, communists and immigrants, Pell harbours white supremacist, white nationalist, neo-Confederate, Nordicist and Nativist views.

Trivia[]

  • Pell is based on real life Deputy Sheriff of Neshoba County, Mississippi and member of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Cecil Price. Price was convicted of conspiracy to violate the civil rights of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner.
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