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The episode discusses the trials of Byron de la Beckwith for the murder of Medgar Evers and the racial context of the time.

Byron de la Beckwith was tried for the same murder three times. In 1964, it just wasn't generally considered illegal for a white man to kill a black man in Mississippi. Sources & Further Reading: Massengill, Reed (2024). Portrait of a racist: Byron De La Beckwith and the Assassination of Medgar Evers. Univ. of Tennessee Press. DeLaughter, Bobby (2001). Never Too Late: A Prosecutor’s Story of Justice in the Medgar Evers Case. Scribner. Mitchell, Jerry (2020). Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era. Simon & Schuster. Evers, Myrlie (1967). For Us, The Living. Doubleday & Company. Tyson, Timothy (2017). The Blood of Emmett Till. Simon & Schuster Vollers, Maryanne (1995). Ghosts of Mississippi. Little Brown & Company. Martin, Ralph (1983). A Hero For Our Time. Bandwagon, Inc. Baden, Michael (2006). Exhumation. in Spitz & Fisher's Medicolegal Investigation of Death. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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