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Library of the Yazoo Library Association| 310 N Ghosts of Mississippi Contents: • Newspaper articles Location: Vertical Files at B.S. Ricks Memorial Library of the Yazoo Library Association| 310 N. Main Street, Yazoo City, Mississippi 39194 VERTICAL FILE Gho^/s- SSrSSr^^' [^^ZXPO 6, THE YAZOO HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 11,1996 Hollywood comes to Yazoo County H olljnvood came to Yazoo County this week as Castle Rock Productions shot scenes for an as yet unnamed film. Film crews have scoured the county this week bringing to life the story of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers and the subsequent trail that convicted his killer, Byron de la Beckwith. Light, camera, action has been the call as the film's direc tor, Rob Reiner, has been calling on actors James Woods, Whoppi Goldberg and Alec Baldwin to play the major roles in telling the story here in Yazoo County. They started in downtown Yazoo City on Main Street Tuesday by re-creating the parade Beckwith received upon returning from his two mistrials in the 1960s. Prior to shooting downtown, the production company painted and fixed up several buildings. Yazooans got an up close look at Woods and Reiner in ac tion. Yazoo native Willie Morris was among the spectators. The crew then drove through the county with a specially designed car set to film some additional scenes before moving Wednesday to a set in Satartia. That town will remember the night Whoopi came to the store and the day Alec Baldwin was at the Presbyterian Church-Gas Station. Shooting individual scenes there and on the Yazoo River Bridge in Satartia, the film crew moved to Bentonia on Thursday. In Bentonia, the filming captured parts of the com munity's downtown area and Blue Front Cafe. The week was also filled with "sighting" movie stars throughout the county and will forever be remembered in Yazoo County. "CUT!" James Woods, playing the part of Byron de la Beckwith, is greeted during parade scene shot Tuesday on Main Street 1 About 200 extras helped recreate a 1960s style parade in downtown Yazoo City V W Nw ■%- About 200 extras helped recreate a 1960s style parade in downtown Yazoo City .. f- jm t I - r - /• •t H- ■ 2f.- - ^ S.rv'' =-* • _••*•. v Production company recreated a gas station in Satartia on edge of cotton field Photos by Gordon Denman Director Rob Reiner, left, watches action on set as extra Stewart Norquist, daughter of Griffin and jane Norquist, plays the part of a parade-goer. Satartia bridge refurbished for background scene Extras dresseded right out of their parent's yearbooks for the movie Willie Morris, Jep Barber talk about movie-making process as they watch filming Pictured from left, Ashley Spinks, Lisa Smithart, Julie Smithhart and Laura Buchanan Movie filming set next week Some Yazoo City streets in the downtown area will be closed Tuesday for the filming of a scene in an upcoming major mo tion picture. Part of Main Street will be closed at the request of the crew of the not yet titled production. At approximately 6 a.m. Tuesday the filming and production crew will close Main Street, between Jefferson and Commer cial, until around noon. The street will remain closed until the filming and production crews are completely finished. Downtown businesses in the affected area will remain open Tuesday morning, but only to foot traffic. Once the filming is completed, normal vehicular traffic will be back to normal. Filming of the scene is scheduled to take around six hours ac cording to a representative of the Yazoo County Convention and Visitors Bureau. The filming will be of a parade scene. Other sites around the county scheduled for filming include Bentonia and Satartia. Satartia's part in the film is set for Tuesday afternoon and continue on Wednesday, May 8. Bentonia's part in the filming is set for the entire day of Thursday, May 9. quicK fivacuations and fast dorm fire at Seton Hall in terns in every dorm "would deyjjinv^^l^y^i^Q^t|inePi|?|ispSji |^^®-^^^^hOrange, officials, N.J., campus MSU said,withoutsupplyingacostcost a significant sum," Tice otd^ensema*bia^efWuf*rsiJ pWrclrthe Sj;arkville ^e estimate. "We are very effec- Man linked toKKK had role in Evers fiim ■ Caston, serving time for 1960s slaying, helped on Ghosts set By J«rry Mltch«li Clarlon-lKclger Staff Wrilar Purported Klansman James "Doc" Caston helped Hollywood portray a crime from the past in the 1P96 movie Ghosts ofMississippJ, What was Caston''' had commit ted his own cr ime almost three decades ear Patrice Goode says she tikes home schooling for her daugh-! Ji Caston lier. ter Brighton, 11, because it allows for a more creative and On Nov. 13,a Humphreys Countyjury convicted Caston, 66, of Satartia, his brother,Charles E. Caston,64, of Holly Bluff, Home-schoollnd and their half brother, Hal Crimm, 51, of Vicksburg ■ State count reveals * "We had decided that at each of manslaughter for the 12.5 percent drop least by high school, we 1970 killing of JElainey Pool were going to let him go to near Louise. Circuit Judge to 7,000 students school." said Eric's father, Jannie Lewis sentenced each Alan."We felt like we could ofthem to 20 years in prison. By Tony Plohotski n't provide the proper sci Clarlon-Ledg«r Staff Wrilor Ghosts ofMississippi told ence and math education the story of the reopening of Eric Bowen is 12 years that he needed at home." the 1963 assassination of old and a sixth-grader, but Eric, who has quietly set- Medgar Evers through the until this year he'd hardly tled in at Mount Salus eyes of then-Assistant Dis ever been in a classroom. Christian School, could trict Attorney Bobby Bowen and his two sis help accoimt for 1,000 stu DeLaughter, now a Hinds ters were instead hunkered dents state education offi Countyjudge. around their kitchen table cials say were being home In 1994, a Panola County as their mother, using a schooled last year but whc jury convicted Klansman home-school curriculum, weren't part of a count Byron De La Beckwith of taught them how to read, taken in September. State Evers' killing. Beckwith is write and do math. education officials suspect serving a life sentence in the Although the parents of many of them returned tc Central Mississippi Correc the Clinton children say more formal classroom set tional Facility in Rankin the arrangement was suit tings. County — the same prison able and they thought Eric Peggy Peterson, directo] where the Castons and was learning all he should, of the office of compulsorj Crimm are serving their time. they also thought it was school attendance anc Jack Stevens of Jackson, time to put their eldest enforcement for the Missis who worked with the crew on child in a more traditional sippi Department of Edu Ghosts, said "Doc" Caston school last August. cation, said she is hesitan See CASTON,llA ,a$ton: Hollywood choicessecond-guessed before p...jnilA other game,Stevens said. Time To 2217involved 6,000 extras, lis paia aDout $75 for renting Caston told them restaurants in said Ward Emling,who heads Mis ips for several days."There's no New Orleans paid him top dollar sissippi's film office. jstion," he said."That's exactly for the turtles,Stevens said. The man who resurrected the iioitwas." "Hewas adamnfascinatingfellow. Pool case. District Attomey James man fitting Caston's physical He was never mean,"Stevens said. Powell of Durant, never knew of [description appeared in a book , Stevens said filmmakers never Caston's assistance to filmmakers. lut&e making ofthe movie, The knew about Caston's involvement "Well," Powell said last week,"I osts ofMedgarEviers,written by in Pool's killing or FBI documents guess if they ever make his movie, late Willie Morris. that claim Caston was a Klansman. hell have all the props." According to the book,fi lmmak- In 1998, Stevens saw Caston's News of Caston's involvement — apparently imable to find a arrest on TV and telephoned Mor surprised Fred ZoUo of New York undown service station in the ris: "I was trembling the night I City, who produced both Ghosts belta—decided to build their own called Willie. I told Mm,'Remem and Mississippi Burning. learSatartia. ber kindly ol'Doc? This is the same "That makes me feel bad," said As filmmakers collected props fellow.'" Zollo,now working on the film Pur ^m a bygone era, they happened Ifs not the first time for Holly ple Man Road, which could be I hppn "an old fisherman and trap- wood to second-guess choices of filmed, at least partly, on Missis Pper who lived in a house trailer on those who helped on films in the sippi's GulfCoast. f[cluttered premises a quarter of a Magnolia State. Zollo said, however, he's happy 'mUe firom the set, a macho fellow In the 1988 film Mississippi Caston sharesthe same prison with with slicked-back hair, tattoos, Burning, Larry Shoemake served Beckwith, who let filmmakers mustache, gold-framed glasses, as an extra, shown in the movie know during the shooting of Ghosts somebody Stanley KowalsM might helping carry the bodies ofthe three in spring 1996 in Jackson that he have played cards with on poker slain civil rights workers. wanted to meet and talk with the night.He hand-wrestled big catfish Eight years later, Shoemake actor portraying him. James in the Yazoo River £ind boiled his holed himself up in an abandoned Woods refused and later won an own chitterlings. For the upcoming restaurant in Jackson and opened Oscar nomination for his role.
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