Ghost Of Mississippi Essay

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Dawson C. Mills
[4/26/2017]
Ghosts of Mississippi Essay
Late on the night of June 13th 1963, Myrlie Evers and her three children were together in the bedroom watching President ( at the time ) John F. Kennedy give a speech on civil rights. It was then suddenly interrupted when Myrlie's husband Medgar Evers was shot and killed in the family's driveway. The family came running out of their house while the shooter Byron de la Beckwith left the area of the crime. Later on the F.B.I. finds Byron in the woods near the scene of the crime and brings him in as a suspect, where he had a trial in a racist state, with a racist judge, and a racist jury. The evidence had his finger prints on it, he was spotted at the scene of the crime, and his car was found near the scene of the crime, but because it was a horribly racist time period he was found not guilty, and was let out into the public, where on his way home the people of the city threw an entire parade for him.
Nearly twenty-six years later Myrlie Evers heads to the D.A.'s office in hopes to reopen the case, where a man named Bobby Delaughter is introduced. He is the son-in-law of Judge Moore, who was the judge of the original case against Byron when the crime was originally committed. The D.A. tells Myrlie that there isn't any files in

Evers begins to trully trust Bobby and gives him the twenty-seven year old original court transcript, which makes it so that he can completely open the case to another trial. As the trial process begins to start the Evers family gives the D.A.'s office permission to dig up the body of Medgar Evers, to examine it since the original autopsy report was gone. At this point Beckwith ( Byron ) faces murder charges thirty years after the original trial, and the death of Medgar Evers. Even though Bobby has the trial going now, Charles Evers ( Medgar's older brother ) refuses to come to the trial because he believes if he goes to the trial he'll kill