I: "A veil hangs over this town" -- My Marion -- The survivor's story -- "We never recovered" -- Things I didn't learn in school -- Marion's hooded order -- The three P's -- "They were strangers to me" -- "No likelihood of conviction" -- II: Good history/bad history -- The ironies -- The ancestors -- Underground -- Weaver -- A riot goin' on -- The auxiliary -- III: "This assemblage of pseudo-Americans" -- In his bulletproof vest -- "The white has fell" -- "Nowhere else to turn" -- God forgives/The brotherhood doesn't -- IV: "Truth does not bring back the dead but releases them from silence" -- The reconcilers -- Brothers and sisters -- What Aunt Ruth said -- A few bad apples -- The snake under the table -- Telltale -- V: The return of Oatess Archey -- History-maker: the primary/Spring 1998 -- Unity day: the election/Fall 1998 -- Poor Marion: the rally/July 1999 -- VI: Truth and reconciliation -- Four days in August -- In the picture.