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Retrial of Evers's Killer: The Murder That Wouldn't Go Away

Mills, Nicolaus | March 29, 1993 issue

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By a 4 to 3 vote, the Mississippi Supreme Court has paved the way for Byron De La Beckwith to be tried a third time for the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. In 1963 Medgar Evers was an outspoken field secretary for the Mississippi National Association for the advancement of Colored People. Hours before Evers was shot, President John Kennedy delivered a nationally televised speech, talking with a passion he had never shown before on civil rights issues

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CIVIL rights; EVERS, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963; COMMERCIAL speech; HUMAN rights; MARTIAL law; UNITED States
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