Perhaps a picture really can capture a thousand words. Perhaps eyes really are the windows to the soul. Perhaps things do change in the dense delta soil of Mississippi. And maybe they don't.
With one hurried snapshot from 1962 -- a one-second take that received a double spread in Life magazine -- Paul Hendrickson starts to unravel the mossy threads of "perhaps." To some, it's a simple picture of seven white lawmen, now lost in stacks of moldy magazines from the past. But to Hendrickson in his new book, "Sons of Mississippi," the photograph is a window into understanding not only a moment in time and the people who lived through it, but also the paths of those men today.
The picture itself could be enough to tell a story ... perhaps. Seven white Mississippi lawmen cluster together under a spreading oak in Oxford, home of Ole Miss. Cigarettes and cigars hang idly from their mouths
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