Jerry Mitchell is the best kind of investigative journalist: his dogged and creative pursuit of his story-the Civil Rights assassinations of the sixties recounted in his new book Race Against Time— exposed murderers who had been hiding in plain sight. Michael Schwerner, along with James Chaney and Andrew Goodman became symbols of the bold crimes against the valiant who tried to help get out the vote in the south. That two were Jewish and one Black did not help their cause in racist Mississippi. Michael Schwerner's mom was our high school biology teacher. I often thought of her anguish and frustration as the Klansmen who had coldly plotted the murder were free for so long. Kudos to the plainspoken Mitchell for staying with it and helping to ferret them out.