Resting Place
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A television movie set in Rockville, Georgia, in 1972. Major Kendall Laird, a Survival Assistance Officer, arrives in this sleepy little town with the body of Lieutenant Dwyte Johnson, a Vietnam war hero. It's Laird's job to help Johnson's parents bury their son. But since the dead hero was black, his parents are turned away by the white racists who maintain the town's "all-white" cemetery.
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John Lithgow
Maj. Kendall Laird
Morgan Freeman
Luther Johnson
CCH Pounder
Ada Johnson
Frances Sternhagen
Eudora McCallister
Richard Brooks
Booker T. Douglas
Richard Bradford
Gen. Willard P. Hauer
G.D. Spradlin
Sam Jennings
M. Emmet Walsh
Sarge
John Philbin
Bradford Erskine
Brian Tarantina
Sp4 Beyer
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