Ira B. Harkey discusses the south, civil rights, race relations, racism, his newspaper, and his career. Includes Ira Harkey reading his writing from his newspaper the Mississippi "Chronicle-Star."

Murray Kempton discusses race relation in the United State of America and the Black Panther Trial in New York. Murray also discusses his book, originally published as, "The Briar Patch: The People of New York versus Lumumba Shakur, et al." This book was reprinted as "The Briar Patch: The Trial of the Panther 21" in 1997.

Tom Wicker discusses his book "A Time to Die: The Attica Prison Revolt", published in 1975. Wicker talks about his experience as one of those summoned as an unbiased observer.

Innocent, unarmed villagers were murdered in the horrific massacre in March of 1968. In Seymour M. Hersh's book, "My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath," Seymour further explains that to the soldiers, the killing was simply a game to them, of who could kill the most bodies.