Word: medgar
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DIED. BYRON DE LA BECKWITH, 80, white supremacist who escaped justice for 31 years before being convicted in 1994 of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers; in Jackson, Mississippi. Two all-white, all-male juries failed to reach a verdict when he was twice tried in 1964, despite the fact that his fingerprints were found on the murder weapon. The case was reopened twelve years ago and a jury of eight blacks and four whites convicted him in 1994. He was serving a life sentence at the time of his death...