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In a televised speech he delivered shortly before he was killed in cold blood in the summer of 1963, Medgar Evers boldly declared that "history has reached a turning point, here and over the world." His words, originally intended as commentary on the plight of the civil rights movement, might...
Twenty-six years since the Tet offensive and 31 since the murder of Medgar Evers, bygones have finally become bygones--at least in the consciousness of America. But at our prestigious university, bygones still masquerade as contemporary issues.
Twice in 1964 Beckwith walked free after all-white juries deadlocked. Indeed, exactly 30 years ago to the day -- Jan. 27 -- Beckwith's first trial had begun. Back then Mrs. Evers sat in this same Hinds County courtroom and saw former Governor Ross Barnett embrace Beckwith in full view of...
Shortly after midnight on a balmy June night, she said, she and the Evers' three young children, who had waited up after listening to President Kennedy give a speech on civil rights, heard Medgar's Oldsmobile pull into the driveway. Then a rifle fired from a honeysuckle thicket some 200...
Until the trial, Mrs. Evers had not seen her husband's accused killer face to face in 30 years. "It was very traumatic," she said. "I can't find the words right now about what my feelings were. I simply can't. It was terribly emotional. I felt ill. I...