THE ASSASSINATION OF MEDGAR EVERS
Episode 211 | Historical Events
In this History episode we focus on the assassination of Medgar Evers — the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi, shot in his driveway on June 12th, 1963 by Byron De La Beckwith. Two all-white juries deadlocked in 1964. Beckwith walked free. He bragged about the killing at Klan rallies for thirty-one years. And then a reporter at the Clarion-Ledger found records showing the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission had actively screened the juries that tried him.
We follow Jerry Mitchell's investigative journalism through the sealed Sovereignty…
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