that was the murder of i people, possiblewere 30 verdicts.he trial, even to select jury took six weeks. then took 14 weeks. when you read the testimony that , when you read manreport, you see what a -- mammoth task it was to charge and try these people. he said that a thousand pieces of evidence were submitted and it took hours of testimony. the problem was that to find these people guilty of murder, there had a clear evidence that they were not acting in self-defense. at that point in north carolina law, there was a loose definition of that. shots were fired by demonstrators. that is what the jury had to rule on, there was a lot of examination of the footage to determine who fired shots and win. the i studied it for over a year -- the fbi studied it for over one year. in that case, self-defense work andrk and -- did they were acquitted. they were also acquitted by an all-white jury. there was a second trial, a federal trial, and in that trial the clansmen were charged with violating the law right -- the civil rights of those people. they wer