Primetime live. [1990-06-14--excerpt], Who killed Medgar Evers?

Authors:Richard N. Kaplan, Ti-hua Chang, Diane Sawyer, Jay Schadler (Reporter), Byron de la Beckwith, R. L. T. Smith, Willie Osbourne, Delmar Dennis, Myrlie Evers-Williams, ABC News, ABC Television Network, Peabody Collection African-American History and Culture Programs, Peabody Collection Women's History and Culture Programs

Summary:"After 10 days of background research and 10 persistent days of reporting and physically retracing the steps of the murder in Jackson, Mississippi; ABC News PrimeTime Live producer Ti-Hua Chang found four witnesses who directly contradicted the major testimony of the alleged murderer after 27 years. ... The story of Medgar Evers['] murder in 1963 and the subsequent two deadlocked all-white juries in 1964 had been reopened by the Jackson Clarion-Ledger Newspaper in the fall of 1989"--1990 Peabody Awards entry form excerpt. This program uses archival footage, photographs and interviews to look at the murder of black civil rights leader Medgar Evers and to hear the testimony of four witnesses who were never called to testify in the two trials of Evers' accused murderer, Byron de la Beckwith. Also discussed is the possible involvement of the State Sovereignty Commission in a cover-up of evidence in the murder. Includes footage of: race violence and protests in Jackson; excerpts of speeches of Evers, Gov. George Wallace and President Kennedy; footage of the murder scene; Beckwith's first two trials; and an excerpt of an interview with Beckwith after his arrest for carrying a bomb

Video, English, [1990]

Publisher: [ABC News], [New York, N.Y.], [1990]