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Medgar Evers - Breaking the Cold Case and the Meaning of Delayed Justice

Medgar Evers - Breaking the Cold Case and the Meaning of Delayed Justice

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 Host Raven Thorne examines the 31-year fight to convict Medgar Evers' murderer, Byron De La Beckwith. Journalist Jerry Mitchell's 1989 investigation, leaked documents, and Myrlie Evers' evidence preservation broke through Mississippi's institutional resistance, leading to a 1994 conviction that two all-white juries had refused to deliver.

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