# John Proctor (FBI agent)

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**John Hamiter Proctor Jr.** (April 19, 1926 in [Reform, Alabama](/source/Reform,_Alabama) – May 30, 1999 in [Meridian, Mississippi](/source/Meridian,_Mississippi)) was an American [FBI](/source/FBI) agent (1951–1978) and [U.S. Navy](/source/U.S._Navy) [signalman second class](/source/Signalman) from 1944 to 1946 and served during [World War II](/source/World_War_II). He was most famous for his role in investigating the [murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner](/source/Murders_of_Chaney,_Goodman,_and_Schwerner) in 1964.

Proctor had been stationed by the FBI in [Meridian, Mississippi](/source/Meridian,_Mississippi) where he cultivated contacts with local law enforcement, the [Ku Klux Klan](/source/Ku_Klux_Klan), and other residents. Proctor's interrogation of Klan informant James Jordan was a key break in the case.[1]

The character of FBI agent Rupert Anderson from the film *[Mississippi Burning](/source/Mississippi_Burning)*, played by [Gene Hackman](/source/Gene_Hackman), is loosely based on Proctor.[2]

## Death

John Proctor died at the Queen City Nursing Home in [Meridian, Mississippi](/source/Meridian,_Mississippi) on May 30, 1999, of [heart failure](/source/Heart_failure) at the age of 73, leaving behind his wife, Mary Randall “Randy” Davis (1930–2013), their three children (John III, Pamela, and Patricia), and six grandchildren.[3]

## References

1. ["The Mississippi Burning trial"](http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/price&bowers/Account.html). Retrieved September 11, 2011.

1. ["John Proctor"](http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/price&bowers/Proctor.html). Retrieved September 11, 2011.

1. Cribbs, Bill. ["Mississippi Obituary and Death Notice Archive - Page 1189"](http://www.genlookups.com/ms/webbbs_config.pl/read/1189). *www.genlookups.com*. Retrieved 3 September 2018.

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