What is the difference between Ward and Mr. Anderson?

Anderson is an FBI agent sent to Jessup County, Mississippi, in order to investigate the murder of three Civil Rights workers. He is a man who gets his man, and is relentless in the pursuit of justice as he uses any means necessary to get it.

Ward is an FBI agent and Anderson's partner. He accompanies Anderson to Mississippi where he investigates the murders of the three Civil Rights workers. He is a man of integrity, unlike Anderson he is determined to get to first, in order that true justice would be afforded to those who lost their lives at the hands of the hatred of the KKK.