Film report which examines the deaths of three civil rights workers in Mississippi. Included are shots of: a Klu Klux Klan cross burning; students learning how to prepare for harassment and gathering at a campus in Oxford, Ohio; an interview with the Deputy Sheriff of Natchez County and local citizens' opinions of the probable events prior to the students' murders; volunteers relating their experiences; interviews with bereaved relatives; and a memorial church service for the slain youths.