Mark Duncanwas a Scottish regent of the University of Saumur... (wikipedia)
What you do today when you go into that jury room is going to echo throughout the history of Neshoba County from now on, ... You can either change the history that Edgar Ray Killen and the Klan wrote for us, or you can confirm it.
Today we've shown the rest of the world the true character of the people of Neshoba County,
If you do a dirty job, you have to get down in the ditch and get dirty, ... I wish others could have testified, but this was done in private. In cases like this, nobody knows until it's too late. The only possible witnesses are the participants themselves.
The court didn't have the true facts that it needed to reach a decision and I think now that the judge knew the true condition of Mr. Killen, he was justified in what he did.