TOM LANDRUM and his wife ANNE LANDRUM have five children. They live an active, community-oriented life in Jones County, Mississippi, a hotbed of racial violence and KKK activity. TOM, a lifelong Jones County resident and the son of a sharecropper, works in youth court at the Jones County courthouse. All around him, TOM sees the impact of KKK violence and racial terrorism. He even discovers that some of his friends and acquaintances are ‘kluckers.’ Several pastors, elected officials, and respected businessmen have donned the hood in Jones County, leading upstanding lives by day and committing diabolical crimes by night.

BOB LEE, an FBI agent stationed in Jones County, approaches Landrum with a magnanimous request: join the ultra-violent White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan as an FBI informant and help them take down SAM BOWERS, the White Knights’ erratic and dangerous leader.

Despite all he and his family have to lose–their lives, their livelihood, their home–TOM and ANNE decide to accept the mission because, as TOM himself said, “Somebody had to do something.” After joining the White Knights, TOM gets a front-row seat to the White Knights’ successfully executed plan to murder VERNON DAHMER, a civil rights and voting rights activist in Hattiesburg, a city just south of Jones County. After the DAHMER murder and during his time in the Klan, TOM meets and interacts with a whole slew of diabolical ‘kluckers,’ including the soft-spoken pastor CECIL SESSUMS, the sporadic and unhinged LAWRENCE BYRD, and the violent DEAVOURS NIX, just to name a few.

Despite the constant danger his work as an informant posed, TOM finishes his assignment with the FBI and becomes a crucial part of helping the justice system take down BOWERS and his minions for good.

Filled with intrigue, hard truth, and stunning accounts of a wartime Mississippi that must be reconciled, The Veil also features romance, irony (especially at the fractured infighting within the Klan), and the ultimate triumph of good over evil. In an America that has never been more divided, The Veil asks audience members to interrogate their beliefs, to honor their fellow man, and to do something–the right thing–no matter the risk.

Our hope? That when people encounter this story, they’re inspired to Be the Somebody.

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