An Old Man, a Young Man and Their Southern Redemption

The McFerren Files

Meet John McFerren, the witness who overheard Frank Liberto giving out the final orders: on when and where to kill Martin Luther King. These orders were given forty-five minutes before the fatal shot was fired.

  • McFerren, an eighty-six-year-old civil rights pioneer and war hero, befriends John Bragorgos, a newcomer with a big heart.
  • Challenging Fayette County’s prejudiced white establishment, the two color-blind men form a bond in the rural town of Somerville, Tennessee with deep-rooted, dark secrets.
  • They uncovered the fact that John McFerren’s 1968 FBI interview had been changed.
  • Without those changes, some powerful West Tennessee Democrats would have Dr. king’s blood on their hands.
  • This fact inspired these two extraordinary men to unite and fight for justice.
  • With this newly discovered information, Bragorgos would be set up and arrested eight times. Sending an innocent man to prison for two years.
  • Now out of prison and with eleven felonies attached to his name, John Bragorgos, this modern-day Buford Pusser without a badge, is ready to be vindicated.

This true story praises Sweet Tea, “the table wine of the South” (including recollections of America’s favorite country songs). It also shows the determination one man has in keeping his promise. Even when the odds were stacked up against him.