Civil Rights Worker’s Station Wagon, Philadelphia, Mississippi

James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwener were missing for two days when two Native Americans of the Choctaw Tribe, who were fishing in a local creek in Neshoba County, MS, discovered their smoldering car on June 23, 1964. Steve Schapiro, who was photographing the efforts to recover the car and determine the location of the men, later recalled that, “Suddenly I saw this big burly sheriff and I started taking pictures of him. He came over to me, slowly took the camera out of my hand, opened the back of the camera, pulled out the roll of film, threw it on the ground and handed me back my camera.” The sheriff was Lawrence Rainey, a Klansman, and one of the men alleged to have perpetrated the murders of Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner.