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28 de dic. de 2020 · Born in California in 1920, Byron De La Beckwith grew up in Mississippi. A segregationist and member of the Ku Klux Klan, he shot and killed NAACP field secr...
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6 de feb. de 1994 · Byron De La Beckwith, 73, had avoided conviction in two previous trials in 1964, when all-white juries deadlocked. But this time, nearly 31 years after Mr. Evers, the black civil rights leader ...
Robert "Bobby" DeLaughter was the protagonist of the 1996 film Ghosts of Mississippi. He was played by Alec Baldwin. Some 25 years after the death of lawyer and civil rights activist Medgar Evers his widow Myrlie Evers decided she had what was needed to bring the suspected murderer Byron De La Beckwith to justice. DeLaughter was an assistant attorney who decided to help her, even though it ...
1 de ene. de 1995 · There are many "ghosts" in Mississippi, and Vollers uses every available resource to uncover them. Vollers fastens on the three-decade-old slaying of Medgar Evers, civil rights activist, and the three subsequent trials of the accused, Byron De La Beckwith, to stir up Mississippi's ghost.
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Byron De La Beckwith Jr. (n. 9 noiembrie 1920, Colusa, California, California, SUA – d. 21 ianuarie 2009, Jackson, Mississippi, SUA) a fost un adept al supremației albe și membru al Ku Klux Klan din Greenwood (d), Mississippi cunoscut pentru asasinarea liderului mișcării pentru drepturile civile (d) Medgar Evers (d) pe 12 iunie 1963.
22 de dic. de 2023 · The Mississippi Supreme Court upheld the conviction of white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith for the 1963 murder of Medgar Evers. In the court’s 4–2 decision, Justice Mike Mills praised efforts “to squeeze justice out of the harm caused by a furtive explosion which erupted from dark bushes on a June night in Jackson, Mississippi.”.
6 de feb. de 1994 · JACKSON, Miss. — Thirty-one years after the assassination of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, Byron De La Beckwith, the man arrested within two weeks of the murder, was found guilty Saturday ...
