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Episode: Mississippi Civil Rights Murder: The Medgar Evers Case Explained
Description: Mississippi Civil Rights Murder: The Medgar Evers Case ExplainedIn June 1963, NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers was shot in the back outside his Jackson, Mississippi home by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith. The assassination triggered a 31-year investigation involving forensic evidence, FBI fingerprint analysis, two hung jury trials, and shocking interference by Mississippi's governor and a state-funded spy agency called the Sovereignty Commission that actively worked to protect the suspect from conviction.While Medgar was bleeding out in his driveway at 12:30 in the morning, his wife and children heard him trying to reach their door...