Richard Beymer: “We were lost, we were in the back roads. I mean, this was just like dirt roads. And I hear a siren. And I suppose a little bit of fear hit me there because we were out in it. Cop car pulls us over, stops about 20 feet, 20, 30 feet in back of us, they both get out, two cops get out, one guy takes the black kid and takes him back to the car and the other guy, he's just reading me the riot act. I mean… (edited for language) you come down here from the north and he's going on and he's red. And I don't know how it came across the but the thought came to me and I said to him, okay, I'm new here and I've never been in the south and I've never really heard the other side of the story, would you tell me what your side of this is? He cooled down a little bit and he started telling me the same thing but basically, look, these are our “Negras”, that's how they referred to them, “Negras”. He went on and on and I said, oh this is interesting. I said, I didn't know that, I had no idea about that, I said. And he cooled pretty much down and just about then some good 'ol boys drove up in back of the police car, the shotgun in the back window and the Confederate flag and the whole thing, two guys, and the cop says to me, he said, now these boys are not going to be as friendly as I am so this is what's going to happen. You're going to put that (edited for language) back in the car, you'll get in the car and you're going to get out of here but if I see you on the road again I will kill you.”