Career
An Alabama native, Proctor had been stationed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Meridian, Mississippi where he cultivated contacts with local law enforcement, the Ku Klux Klan, and other residents. Proctor"s interrogation of Klan informant James Jordan was a key break in the case. The character Rupert Anderson from the film Mississippi Burning, played by Gene Hackman, is loosely based on Proctor.