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Now a judge in Hinds County Court, Jackson, MS, DeLaughter explains how he finally nailed Evers's killer.
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It took the state of Mississippi more than 30 years to convict Byron De La Beckwith of the 1963 murder of NAACP leader Medgar Evers. White juries had acquitted Beckwith in the '60s, but the investigation and trial DeLaughter spearheaded in the '90s finally produced a conviction. This is the story dramatized in Rob Reiner's film, The Ghosts of Mississippi; DeLaughter is the character played in the film by Alec Baldwin. The author draws on his journals and the legal transcriptions to re-create the research and interviews that made indictment possible and the thrust and parry of trial examination and cross-examination. DeLaughter's narrative is a bit like an episode of TV's Law and Order, in that the story begins with requests to reopen the case in 1989, and then follows a team's efforts to reconstruct the case over a period of years. Likely to appeal to true-crime and courtroom- drama fans, as well as to readers interested in the civil rights movement. Mary Carroll
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Now a judge in Hinds County Court, Jackson, MS, DeLaughter explains how he finally nailed Evers's killer.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
It took the state of Mississippi more than 30 years to convict Byron De La Beckwith of the 1963 murder of NAACP leader Medgar Evers. White juries had acquitted Beckwith in the '60s, but the investigation and trial DeLaughter spearheaded in the '90s finally produced a conviction. This is the story dramatized in Rob Reiner's film, The Ghosts of Mississippi; DeLaughter is the character played in the film by Alec Baldwin. The author draws on his journals and the legal transcriptions to re-create the research and interviews that made indictment possible and the thrust and parry of trial examination and cross-examination. DeLaughter's narrative is a bit like an episode of TV's Law and Order, in that the story begins with requests to reopen the case in 1989, and then follows a team's efforts to reconstruct the case over a period of years. Likely to appeal to true-crime and courtroom- drama fans, as well as to readers interested in the civil rights movement. Mary Carroll
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
See all Editorial Reviews
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