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It is better to settle
these matters in the courts...
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... than on the streets.
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And new laws are needed
at every level.
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But law alone cannot make
men see right.
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We are confronted primarily
with a moral issue.
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The heart of the question is...
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... whether all Americans are
to be afforded equal rights...
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...and equal opportunities...
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... whether we treat
our fellow Americans...
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...as we want to be treated.
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If an American,
because his skin is dark...
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...cannot eat lunch
in a restaurant open to the public...
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...if he cannot send his children...
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... to the best public school
available...
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...if he cannot vote
for the officials who represent him...
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...if, in short, he cannot enjoy
the full and free life...
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... which all of us want...
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... then who among us
would be content...
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... to have the color
of his skin changed?
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Who among us would then be content...
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... with the counsels
of patience and delay?
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One hundred years
of delay have passed...
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...since President Lincoln
freed the slaves...
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... yet their heirs, their grandsons
are not fully free.
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They are not yet freed
from the bonds of injustice.
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They are not yet freed
from social and economic oppression.
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That looks like a police car.
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And this nation, for all
its hopes and all its boasts...
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... will not be fully free
until all its citizens are free.
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We preach freedom
around the world and we mean it.
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And we cherish our freedom
here at home.
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Are we to say to the world...
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...and much more importantly,
to each other...
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... that this is a land of the free,
except for the Negroes?
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That we have no second-class citizens,
except Negroes?
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That we have no class
or caste system...
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...no ghettos, no master race,
except with respect to Negroes?
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Now the time has come for
this nation to fulfill its promise.
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The events in Birmingham
and elsewhere...
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...have so increased the cries
for equality that no city...
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...or state or legislative body
can prudently choose...
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... to ignore them.
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The fires of frustration
and discord...
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...are burning in every city,
North and South...
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... where legal remedies
are not at hand.
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Redress is sought in the streets.
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We face a moral crisis
as a country and a people.
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It cannot be met
by repressive police action.
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It is a time to act
in the Congress...
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...in your state
and local legislative body...
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...and above all,
in all of our daily lives.
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A great change is at hand...
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...and our task...
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...our obligation is to make
that revolution, that change...
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...peaceful and constructive for all.
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Those who do nothing...
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...are inviting shame
as well as violence.
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Those who act boldly
are recognizing right...
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...as well as reality.
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Medgar!
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-Get down!
-Get the baby!
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Medgar!
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Oh, my God!
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Daddy! Daddy!
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Daddy, I love you!
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Daddy, don't die!
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I want my daddy!
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Turn me loose.
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Turn me loose.
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Medgar Evers believed in this country.
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It now remains to be seen
whether his country believed in him.
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The Citizens Council's raised
thousands for your defense.
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Money's pouring in
from all over the South.
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Nice likeness.
What do you think, boys?
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Mr. Beckwith, glad to see you.
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Mighty glad to be here.
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And isn't it true
your husband was the first...
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...to attempt to integrate
the University of Mississippi?
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At the time of his death,
he was involved in a lawsuit...
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...to integrate the public
school system, wasn't he?
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Your husband must've had quite
a few enemies, would you agree?
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Yes, he did.
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Your eldest boy,
his name is Kenyatta, isn't it?
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Darrell Kenyatta Evers.
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Kenyatta's a Mau Mau name, isn't it?
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Objection.
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Sustained.
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Isn't it true that over 100 people
were arrested during a demonstration...
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...that your husband
organized boycotting...
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...a department store in downtown
Jackson known as Kennington's?
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Who's that?
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Ross Barnett.
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You're kidding.
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Nope. You don't see that
every day of the week.
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A former governor shaking hands
with an assassin in front of the jury.
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There's not a court in America
that would stand for that.
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What's America got to do
with anything?
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This is Mississippi.
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Byron De La Beckwith.
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-You live in Greenwood, Mississippi?
-Y es, sir.
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My mother was a Yerger.
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Her mother was Susan Yerger...
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...a close personal friend
of Mrs. Jefferson Davis.
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You shoot Medgar Evers?
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No, sir!
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Your Honor, may l?
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Mr. Beckwith, is this your rifle?
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Let's see.
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Well, it bears a similarity...
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...but I couldn't say for certain.
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I don't record the
serial numbers of my weapons...
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...and my gun was stolen
from my home several days before...
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...this whole business.
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How do you feel, Delay?
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I got tears in my eyes.
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For Dixie, huh?
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In summation...
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...not only did surveillance cameras
provide us with a visual record...
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...of the crime being committed...
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...but four eyewitnesses observed
the defendant removing his mask...
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...upon exiting the convenience store.
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Short of you ladies and gentlemen
attending the actual event...
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...we don't feel the state
could have a stronger case.
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Thank you.
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Counsel?
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Hey, Bobby. How'd it go?
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Through a combination
of superior lawyering...
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...and a less than stellar performance
by our criminal, I got a conviction.
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Congratulations.
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My rape victim's reluctant to testify.
Can you handle the Harrison motion?
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-You bet.
-You're a lifesaver.
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-DeLaughter, your wife just called.
-What'd she want?
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To remind you you're having lunch with
her mother and your parents at 1:00.
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How could I forget?
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Bobby.
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-You seen this?
-Yes, I have.
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Evers' widow is calling for
the re-prosecution of De La Beckwith.
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Ed, this guy was killed
over 25 years ago.
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Dig up whatever you can on Medgar Evers
and be in my office at 3:00.
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Ed, this is ridiculous.
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Well, sure it is.
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But if we try to bury this...
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...she'll have every black politician
climbing all over me.
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My office, 3:00.
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Do we have any files here
on Medgar Evers?
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Who?
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The civil rights leader
that got himself shot in the 1960s?
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I just saw that file. It was next
to the one on the Lindbergh baby.
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Clara, just bring me what we have.
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Good afternoon, sir.
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Did you make Hinds County safer today?
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You know how it is with criminals.
It's like finding a gray hair.
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You pull one and two more pop up
to take its place.
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I love those earrings.
Have you worn them before?
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I've had them for quite some time.
I just never wear them during the day.
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You see that nonsense
about the Sovereignty Commission?
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Yeah, isn't that awful?
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That fool, Rea Hederman.
Since he took over that paper...
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...Iiberals like Jerry Mitchell
been trying to rewrite history.
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The Sovereignty Commission was a fine
organization that did a lot of good.
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Dixie, would you pass me the butter?
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Why do they dig up things
that happened 25 years ago anyway?
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Medgar Evers' widow
wants to reopen the case.
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You can't be serious.
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Ed asked me to look into it.
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You just tell him, "No, thank you."
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When will these people get it through
their heads that the '60s are over?
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The 1860s and the 1960s.
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I thought they found
that Beckwith fella not guilty.
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Actually, there were two hung juries.
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The reason I know is because
my late husband, Judge Moore...
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...was a spectator
at both those trials.
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He'd never miss a day.
And he told me...
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...that they'd never convict Beckwith,
no matter how many trials they had.
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It's just political. I don't
think anything will come of it.
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Son, for your sake,
it had better not.
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You want to be a judge someday.
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You persecute a 70-year-old man,
guilty or not, over some nigger...
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...you'll have everybody in Mississippi
lined up against you.
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-Hey, Howard.
-How you doing?
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Y'all got any
of that crawdad chowder today?
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Yes, sir.
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-How many for crawdad chowder?
-Oh, come on!
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Mrs. Evers, Mr. Dees, I'm Jerry Mitchell
from The Clarion-Ledger.
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I broke the story on the jury
tampering in your husband's case.
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-I talked to you on the phone.
-That's right.
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Thank you for your good work. I can't
tell you how much it's appreciated.
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I'm just doing my job, ma'am.
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What do you think your chances are
of getting the D.A. to reopen the case?
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I've passed this way before.
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Let's just say I've adopted
an attitude of tempered optimism.
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DeLaughter, hear the news?
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President Lincoln just got shot.
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Some guy named Booth did it.
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The Sovereignty Commission, a state
agency, worked against the D.A...
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...to ensure the jury had Beckwith
sympathizers to keep him out of jail.
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That's grounds for a new trial.
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With all due respect...
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...those old files have been
leaking out for years.
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They only ran background checks which,
while unethical, was not illegal.
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We can't prove jury tampering.
I'd like you to meet Bob DeLaughter.
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How do you do?
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-Pleasure.
-Mr. Morris Dees...
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...the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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-How you doing?
-I was explaining...
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...that in order for us
to pursue this...
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...we'll need more
than an article in a newspaper.
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We'll need new evidence.
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In 1964, you had
a mountain of evidence.
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All you gotta do is retry Beckwith.
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On the basis of that alone,
you'll get a conviction.
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As you can see, the mountain
has crumbled a bit.
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What's this?
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That's all that's left of the
state's case against De La Beckwith.
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Just a few pages
of the old police report.
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-Where's the gun? Where--
-Where's the bullet?
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Where's the original trial transcript?
Where are the files? Beats me.
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Are you telling us it is lost?
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I'm telling you, we don't have it.
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Well, that's outrageous.
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Even if we had the evidence,
we'd never get around...
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...to the Sixth Amendment right
to a speedy trial.
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Mr. Dees would agree that 25 years
isn't exactly what you'd call speedy.
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May I see that?
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Mrs. Evers, this is
pretty strong stuff.
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I'd like to see it.
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"June 13, 1963.
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To the Jackson Police Department:
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When you catch whoever killed
the nigger, pin a medal on him...
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...because he just did Mississippi
one hell of a favor.
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June 14, 1963.
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A female who refused
to identify herself stated...
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...that she'd heard a rumor
that Medgar Evers' wife...
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...had gotten jealous of Lena Horne,
who appeared with Evers at a rally...
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...and might have gotten
her brother-in-law to kill Evers."
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Who wouldn't be jealous of Lena Horne?
What a beautiful woman.
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Y es, ma'am.
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The cops wrote that garbage down
because they actually took it seriously.
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Mr. Dees.
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Do you think the police in Washington,
D.C. would have written it up...
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...if some nitwit said Jackie Kennedy
had a hand in J.F.K.'s death...
242
00:18:05,225 --> 00:18:08,023
...because her husband ran around
with Marilyn Monroe?
243
00:18:08,261 --> 00:18:09,387
What's your point?
244
00:18:09,596 --> 00:18:12,656
The murder of Medgar Evers
was a race crime...
245
00:18:12,866 --> 00:18:14,891
...a political crime.
An assassination.
246
00:18:15,268 --> 00:18:17,236
Beckwith is free today...
247
00:18:17,437 --> 00:18:19,962
...thanks to a racist jury,
a racist police department...
248
00:18:20,173 --> 00:18:22,334
...and a racist D.A.'s office.
249
00:18:22,542 --> 00:18:25,010
Twenty-five years ago,
Waller and this office...
250
00:18:25,211 --> 00:18:27,338
...went after Beckwith
not once but twice.
251
00:18:27,547 --> 00:18:29,606
I don't need to sit here and listen--
252
00:18:30,316 --> 00:18:33,581
Twenty-five years ago,
I sat on the witness stand...
253
00:18:33,787 --> 00:18:37,018
...and I watched as the former
governor of this state...
254
00:18:37,223 --> 00:18:40,386
...shook hands with the man
who murdered my husband...
255
00:18:41,194 --> 00:18:42,889
...while I was on the stand.
256
00:18:45,965 --> 00:18:47,865
I don't expect you to understand...
257
00:18:48,068 --> 00:18:50,502
...the pain and suffering
my family went through...
258
00:18:50,704 --> 00:18:52,365
...but I did come here thinking...
259
00:18:52,572 --> 00:18:56,269
...that this office might want
to see justice finally served.
260
00:18:59,379 --> 00:19:02,815
You've given me all the reasons
why you can't pursue this.
261
00:19:03,016 --> 00:19:06,144
Perhaps you can find
one reason why you can.
262
00:19:06,786 --> 00:19:08,583
Good afternoon, gentlemen.
263
00:19:28,508 --> 00:19:29,998
Ed Peters is a good man...
264
00:19:30,210 --> 00:19:32,804
...but as you can see,
we simply don't have a case.
265
00:19:33,012 --> 00:19:36,846
I know you've been living
with this thing for a long while...
266
00:19:37,851 --> 00:19:40,012
...but maybe it's just time you....
267
00:19:41,087 --> 00:19:42,349
Let it go?
268
00:19:42,922 --> 00:19:45,789
I can understand why you'd
think that, Mr. DeLaughter.
269
00:19:45,992 --> 00:19:48,358
For years, I said
the same thing to Medgar.
270
00:19:48,561 --> 00:19:51,291
"Let it go.
Let's get out of Mississippi."
271
00:19:51,798 --> 00:19:53,595
Do you know what he said to me?
272
00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:56,691
" I don't know if I'm going
to heaven or to hell...
273
00:19:56,903 --> 00:19:59,030
...but I'm going from Jackson."
274
00:19:59,639 --> 00:20:01,436
Good afternoon, Mr. DeLaughter.
275
00:20:34,207 --> 00:20:36,072
Hey, everybody, I'm home.
276
00:20:44,484 --> 00:20:45,678
Hey, tiger.
277
00:20:46,352 --> 00:20:47,580
Hi, Dad.
278
00:20:48,521 --> 00:20:52,423
You sure you got enough distractions?
I can go get your Game Boy.
279
00:20:53,026 --> 00:20:54,152
Dad.
280
00:20:54,360 --> 00:20:55,588
Hi, Daddy.
281
00:20:56,029 --> 00:20:56,961
Hi, Dad.
282
00:20:57,163 --> 00:21:01,224
-Did you bring me a lollipop?
-I did. I got one for Claire too.
283
00:21:01,434 --> 00:21:04,403
-Thanks, Daddy.
-How was school today, sweetie?
284
00:21:04,604 --> 00:21:06,902
Did Miss Collins like
the bracelet you made?
285
00:21:07,207 --> 00:21:08,936
Daddy, tell us a story.
286
00:21:09,642 --> 00:21:12,509
-A real scary one.
-Claire, you want to hear a story?
287
00:21:12,712 --> 00:21:14,680
Okay, but not too scary.
288
00:21:14,881 --> 00:21:18,578
Let's go to Mommy and Daddy's room,
because we don't wanna disturb Burt.
289
00:21:21,955 --> 00:21:25,482
-You want something to eat?
-No, I got something at the office.
290
00:21:27,327 --> 00:21:29,056
Thanks for letting me know.
291
00:22:11,838 --> 00:22:13,396
Honey, what are you doing up?
292
00:22:13,606 --> 00:22:15,073
I can't sleep.
293
00:22:15,275 --> 00:22:16,936
The ghost is back.
294
00:22:17,343 --> 00:22:19,436
I'll go. I'll go.
295
00:22:20,580 --> 00:22:23,481
The ghost is back?
Where is he this time?
296
00:22:23,683 --> 00:22:24,650
In my bed.
297
00:22:24,851 --> 00:22:27,945
Really? We'll just have
to see about that.
298
00:22:31,357 --> 00:22:34,190
You were right.
He's right there on the bed.
299
00:22:34,894 --> 00:22:35,986
No, Daddy.
300
00:22:36,195 --> 00:22:38,356
Now he's over by the window.
301
00:22:40,767 --> 00:22:42,029
I see.
302
00:22:43,670 --> 00:22:45,968
Your bottle tree was
supposed to keep him away.
303
00:22:46,306 --> 00:22:48,968
Maybe I don't have
the right kind of bottles.
304
00:22:49,309 --> 00:22:50,708
You know, baby...
305
00:22:51,778 --> 00:22:54,212
...when we lived in Natchez,
there was a ghost...
306
00:22:54,414 --> 00:22:56,006
...that lived right next door...
307
00:22:56,215 --> 00:22:59,343
...in the remains of this house
that got burned during the war.
308
00:22:59,819 --> 00:23:03,687
And sometimes he'd come over
and get right in my closet.
309
00:23:03,990 --> 00:23:05,184
How'd you make him go away?
310
00:23:05,558 --> 00:23:07,958
Granny would come in
and sing a song...
311
00:23:08,161 --> 00:23:10,186
...and before you knew it,
he was gone.
312
00:23:10,930 --> 00:23:12,488
What'd she sing?
313
00:23:12,932 --> 00:23:15,799
She sang the song every ghost
from Mississippi loves.
314
00:23:16,302 --> 00:23:17,394
Sing it, Daddy.
315
00:23:17,904 --> 00:23:19,064
All right.
316
00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:23,568
I wish I was in the land of cotton
317
00:23:23,776 --> 00:23:26,006
Old times there are not forgotten
318
00:23:26,212 --> 00:23:27,509
Look away
319
00:23:27,814 --> 00:23:29,145
Look away
320
00:23:29,415 --> 00:23:32,714
Look away, Dixieland
321
00:23:32,919 --> 00:23:35,251
In Dixieland where I was born
322
00:23:35,588 --> 00:23:38,216
Early on one frosty morn'
323
00:23:38,558 --> 00:23:41,186
Look away, look away
324
00:23:41,394 --> 00:23:44,522
Look away, Dixieland
325
00:23:45,098 --> 00:23:47,328
Oh, I wish I was in Dixie
326
00:23:47,533 --> 00:23:50,297
Hooray, hooray
327
00:23:50,503 --> 00:23:53,199
In Dixieland I'll take my stand
328
00:23:53,406 --> 00:23:56,375
To live and die in Dixie
329
00:23:56,576 --> 00:23:58,669
Away, away
330
00:23:58,945 --> 00:24:01,539
Away down South
331
00:24:01,981 --> 00:24:03,812
In Dixie
332
00:24:07,820 --> 00:24:10,152
I'd ask what's new,
but I'm afraid you'd tell me.
333
00:24:10,356 --> 00:24:12,916
My readers are on the edge
of their collective seat.
334
00:24:14,293 --> 00:24:15,760
Will Mr. DeLaughter go after
Byron De La Beckwith?
335
00:24:15,962 --> 00:24:20,365
The D.A.'s office will investigate
the possibility of reopening the case.
336
00:24:20,566 --> 00:24:23,933
I didn't go to law school,
but that sounds like bullshit.
337
00:24:24,137 --> 00:24:25,195
Nice talking to you.
338
00:24:25,405 --> 00:24:26,895
Have a nice day.
339
00:24:48,461 --> 00:24:51,897
Can you tell me how I can get
ahold of Lewis Skinner...
340
00:24:52,098 --> 00:24:53,190
...or Fred Sanders?
341
00:24:53,399 --> 00:24:57,631
If you want Lewis Skinner, you'll need
a shovel and six hours of digging time.
342
00:24:58,037 --> 00:24:59,163
What's Fred's status?
343
00:24:59,372 --> 00:25:02,102
As far as I know,
he's still aboveground.
344
00:25:03,743 --> 00:25:06,268
Back in '63,
none of those houses were there.
345
00:25:06,479 --> 00:25:08,470
That was all vacant lot.
346
00:25:08,681 --> 00:25:11,616
And this here was
all covered over with brush.
347
00:25:11,851 --> 00:25:14,911
I got out here eight minutes
after the call came in.
348
00:25:15,121 --> 00:25:19,353
The way Mrs. Evers yelled at me,
you'd think I was the one who done it.
349
00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:24,792
This is where they found the gun,
hidden in some honeysuckle vines.
350
00:25:25,264 --> 00:25:27,323
Any idea where
that gun might be today?
351
00:25:27,533 --> 00:25:28,591
Hell, no.
352
00:25:28,801 --> 00:25:29,893
Back in those days...
353
00:25:30,103 --> 00:25:33,698
...evidence had a habit
of disappearing after the trials.
354
00:25:34,173 --> 00:25:35,299
Look at that.
355
00:25:35,508 --> 00:25:38,636
My grandmother could have
picked Evers off from over here.
356
00:25:38,845 --> 00:25:40,745
That's where he was shot.
357
00:25:40,947 --> 00:25:43,472
That big tree wasn't there
at the time.
358
00:25:43,816 --> 00:25:45,340
There was blood everywhere.
359
00:25:45,551 --> 00:25:48,452
All over the driveway,
all over the car.
360
00:25:48,654 --> 00:25:51,020
It was as if somebody
had butchered a hog.
361
00:25:51,257 --> 00:25:55,990
But Evers must've been one hell of a
strong man because somehow he managed...
362
00:25:56,195 --> 00:25:58,527
...to drag himself
all the way up to his door.
363
00:25:58,865 --> 00:26:02,858
After that bullet tore through his back,
it slammed through that window...
364
00:26:03,069 --> 00:26:04,536
...crashed through a wall...
365
00:26:04,737 --> 00:26:08,605
...ricocheted off the refrigerator
and busted the coffeepot.
366
00:26:08,808 --> 00:26:12,904
We found it on the kitchen counter
next to a watermelon.
367
00:26:14,247 --> 00:26:15,339
You're kidding me.
368
00:26:15,748 --> 00:26:16,976
No, sir.
369
00:26:21,954 --> 00:26:23,319
Did he have any kids?
370
00:26:23,523 --> 00:26:27,857
If my memory serves, I believe there
were three little ones there that night.
371
00:26:32,265 --> 00:26:36,827
What kind of man shoots another man
in the back in front of his family?
372
00:26:38,004 --> 00:26:40,529
I love the land of my birth.
373
00:26:41,307 --> 00:26:43,901
I do not mean
just America as a country...
374
00:26:44,143 --> 00:26:45,667
...but Mississippi...
375
00:26:45,878 --> 00:26:47,539
... the state in which I was born.
376
00:26:48,648 --> 00:26:51,674
So the deplorable things
I speak of here today...
377
00:26:51,918 --> 00:26:54,216
... will be said to you
in hopes of a future...
378
00:26:54,987 --> 00:26:58,218
... where such will not
be the case in Mississippi.
379
00:26:58,424 --> 00:27:00,187
In the horrific deaths...
380
00:27:00,393 --> 00:27:01,883
...of Emmett Till...
381
00:27:02,261 --> 00:27:04,456
...Reverend G. W. Lee...
382
00:27:04,830 --> 00:27:07,560
...Lamar Smith and a variety
of other atrocities...
383
00:27:07,767 --> 00:27:10,201
...no one has been convicted.
384
00:27:10,803 --> 00:27:15,570
And we feel those guilty of having
committed these ungodly acts...
385
00:27:15,775 --> 00:27:19,336
...had the feeling of assurance
that nothing ever would be done.
386
00:27:19,645 --> 00:27:21,909
For you see, ladies and gentlemen...
387
00:27:22,548 --> 00:27:26,780
... white juries have yet to convict
a white man in Mississippi...
388
00:27:27,053 --> 00:27:29,578
...guilty of a crime against a Negro.
389
00:27:30,356 --> 00:27:34,952
The failure of the so-called decent
or moderate white person...
390
00:27:35,161 --> 00:27:38,597
... to take a positive
and uncompromising stand....
391
00:27:38,798 --> 00:27:40,060
Who's that?
392
00:27:41,634 --> 00:27:42,999
Medgar Evers.
393
00:27:46,105 --> 00:27:47,732
Why are you looking at it?
394
00:27:49,875 --> 00:27:53,333
I just wanted to get
an idea of who he was.
395
00:27:54,380 --> 00:27:56,746
I'd like to get
an idea of who you are.
396
00:27:57,383 --> 00:27:59,112
What's that supposed to mean?
397
00:27:59,852 --> 00:28:02,320
I was willing to go down
that road with you...
398
00:28:02,521 --> 00:28:05,581
...when you got out of law school
and did that pro bono work.
399
00:28:05,791 --> 00:28:09,318
And when you worked for
that Jew lawyer who ran you ragged.
400
00:28:09,795 --> 00:28:13,595
I minded a little when you turned down
that offer from Morse & Braggs...
401
00:28:13,799 --> 00:28:16,666
...so you could be assistant D.A.
at one-fourth the salary.
402
00:28:16,869 --> 00:28:20,236
But I'll be damned if I spent
10 years supporting your career...
403
00:28:20,439 --> 00:28:21,838
...just so you can humiliate me.
404
00:28:22,441 --> 00:28:24,705
You're gonna pursue this, aren't you?
405
00:28:25,711 --> 00:28:28,771
You're gonna humiliate me
in front of my friends...
406
00:28:28,981 --> 00:28:31,074
...my family and the entire state.
407
00:28:31,284 --> 00:28:33,309
I'm just looking
at a couple of tapes.
408
00:28:33,919 --> 00:28:36,444
Fine. Look at your tapes.
409
00:28:36,756 --> 00:28:38,485
That's all you'd better do.
410
00:28:44,096 --> 00:28:45,654
-Why not?
-Because you can't win.
411
00:28:45,865 --> 00:28:46,695
Who says?
412
00:28:46,966 --> 00:28:49,799
-The Sixth Amendment.
-Suppose I could get around it.
413
00:28:50,002 --> 00:28:53,267
It's one thing for
the grieving widow to carry on--
414
00:28:53,673 --> 00:28:57,575
Suppose an argument could be made
that the Sixth Amendment doesn't apply.
415
00:28:57,777 --> 00:28:59,301
You want to retry Beckwith?
416
00:28:59,545 --> 00:29:00,477
Fine.
417
00:29:00,746 --> 00:29:05,547
Dig up 26-year-old physical evidence
which probably no longer exists...
418
00:29:05,985 --> 00:29:10,115
...identify it, and then you'll have
to locate the key witnesses...
419
00:29:10,323 --> 00:29:13,087
...who, if you find them,
are probably dead or senile.
420
00:29:13,292 --> 00:29:15,760
Their testimony could be read
from the transcript.
421
00:29:15,961 --> 00:29:19,658
We haven't seen a certified
transcript in over 25 years.
422
00:29:19,865 --> 00:29:22,390
-What if I found one?
-Let's say, by some miracle...
423
00:29:22,601 --> 00:29:26,162
...you found one, got an indictment.
Then by some greater miracle...
424
00:29:26,372 --> 00:29:30,536
...the state Supreme Court and U.S.
Supreme Court didn't throw it out...
425
00:29:30,743 --> 00:29:33,405
...and you actually got to trial.
What if you lose?
426
00:29:33,612 --> 00:29:37,548
The whole state, which is supposed
to have changed so much...
427
00:29:37,750 --> 00:29:40,446
...will be facing the worst
public relations disaster...
428
00:29:40,653 --> 00:29:43,918
...since that black kid, Emmett Till,
bobbed up out of the river.
429
00:29:49,562 --> 00:29:51,792
Are you telling me
I can't go after this?
430
00:29:51,997 --> 00:29:54,227
I'm telling you
you're dealing with the past.
431
00:29:54,433 --> 00:29:56,867
Mississippi's not
a place you wanna be.
432
00:30:01,574 --> 00:30:04,702
Hopefully, Jerry Mitchell can
keep this thing alive for us.
433
00:30:04,944 --> 00:30:08,141
Jerry Mitchell's fine, but
what we need is national press.
434
00:30:08,347 --> 00:30:12,909
Darrell, CNN won't run a major story
about how the D.A. of Hinds County...
435
00:30:13,119 --> 00:30:16,088
...is refusing to re-prosecute a case...
436
00:30:16,288 --> 00:30:18,279
...that's a quarter of a century old.
437
00:30:18,491 --> 00:30:21,051
Stop annoying your grandmama.
438
00:30:21,260 --> 00:30:25,458
The greatest joy in your mother's life
is being annoyed by her grandchildren.
439
00:30:25,664 --> 00:30:28,098
Next to being annoyed by you, Walter.
440
00:30:28,834 --> 00:30:29,801
I'll get it.
441
00:30:30,002 --> 00:30:32,061
I'm not here no matter who it is.
442
00:30:38,344 --> 00:30:39,368
Who?
443
00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:43,043
Just a minute, please.
444
00:30:43,883 --> 00:30:45,578
I want you to eat those beans.
445
00:30:45,785 --> 00:30:47,480
It's long distance from Jackson.
446
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:50,621
A man by the name of DeLaughter.
You want me to take it?
447
00:30:50,823 --> 00:30:52,688
No, I'll take it.
448
00:30:52,992 --> 00:30:54,653
Eat those beans.
449
00:30:55,428 --> 00:30:57,328
I don't eat beans.
450
00:31:02,601 --> 00:31:03,761
Hello, Mrs. Evers.
451
00:31:03,969 --> 00:31:07,200
I know you probably left here
feeling pretty discouraged...
452
00:31:07,406 --> 00:31:10,773
...but I hope you understand
Mr. Peters was just being realistic.
453
00:31:10,976 --> 00:31:12,637
I understand perfectly.
454
00:31:12,845 --> 00:31:14,210
I also wanted you to know...
455
00:31:14,413 --> 00:31:17,246
...that we are going to
be keeping this case open.
456
00:31:20,186 --> 00:31:21,312
Mrs. Evers?
457
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:24,683
Did it suddenly occur to
Mr. Peters that he'd better...
458
00:31:24,890 --> 00:31:28,826
...start making nice with the
black community before November?
459
00:31:29,395 --> 00:31:31,556
-Mrs. Evers--
-He made it clear to me...
460
00:31:31,797 --> 00:31:34,994
...that in addition to having
no evidence and no witnesses...
461
00:31:35,201 --> 00:31:36,862
...he also had no interest.
462
00:31:37,102 --> 00:31:41,334
Looking into this wasn't so much
Mr. Peter's idea as it was mine.
463
00:31:41,540 --> 00:31:43,701
-Yours?
-Yes, ma'am.
464
00:31:46,278 --> 00:31:49,873
Judge Russel Moore was perhaps
the most racist judge...
465
00:31:50,082 --> 00:31:52,346
...in the history
of the state of Mississippi.
466
00:31:52,551 --> 00:31:55,486
Why would his son-in-law
be interested in this case?
467
00:31:55,754 --> 00:31:59,520
Mrs. Evers, I'm 37 years old,
just like Medgar was...
468
00:31:59,725 --> 00:32:02,057
...and I've got three kids,
like he did.
469
00:32:02,461 --> 00:32:05,055
I was 11 years old
when your husband was killed...
470
00:32:05,264 --> 00:32:07,391
...and I hardly remember him at all.
471
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:12,564
But I went by your house the other day
and I could see him there...
472
00:32:13,405 --> 00:32:15,236
...watering his lawn...
473
00:32:15,808 --> 00:32:17,571
... working on his roof...
474
00:32:18,377 --> 00:32:20,311
...playing with his children.
475
00:32:20,980 --> 00:32:24,973
No man has the right to take
another man away from his children.
476
00:32:26,752 --> 00:32:29,414
I appreciate the call,
Mr. DeLaughter.
477
00:32:30,089 --> 00:32:31,989
I'll keep in touch, Mrs. Evers.
478
00:32:37,596 --> 00:32:39,291
Did you plan on telling me...
479
00:32:39,832 --> 00:32:42,494
...or was I just gonna read
about it in the papers?
480
00:32:44,603 --> 00:32:47,436
We should be at the
Walkers' house in 15 minutes.
481
00:32:48,941 --> 00:32:51,671
Well, I've got a lot
of work to do here.
482
00:32:55,781 --> 00:32:57,146
Suit yourself.
483
00:33:02,254 --> 00:33:05,155
Nobody gives a goddamn
what Byron De La Beckwith did...
484
00:33:05,357 --> 00:33:07,621
...to some Medgar Evers 26 years ago.
485
00:33:07,826 --> 00:33:11,694
Hell, Larry Smith got shot down
in his own driveway just last week.
486
00:33:11,997 --> 00:33:13,760
And it wasn't for no civil rights.
487
00:33:13,966 --> 00:33:15,763
It was for his spare change.
488
00:33:15,968 --> 00:33:19,995
I could have had any investigator
I wanted, and I asked for you.
489
00:33:20,205 --> 00:33:22,173
Am I meant to be flattered by that?
490
00:33:22,374 --> 00:33:27,107
We're supposed to nail Eddie Williams
for killing Wendell Washington...
491
00:33:27,313 --> 00:33:30,146
...or that guy Pierson
for shooting Donny Brown.
492
00:33:30,349 --> 00:33:34,513
That's why we're only gonna work
on this case in our spare time.
493
00:33:53,205 --> 00:33:54,035
Holy shit.
494
00:33:55,207 --> 00:33:56,333
Will you look at this?
495
00:33:56,575 --> 00:34:01,103
You could buy a whole damn General
Electric refrigerator for $185.
496
00:34:03,549 --> 00:34:05,210
T alk about your good old days.
497
00:34:23,102 --> 00:34:24,160
That's my daddy.
498
00:34:26,472 --> 00:34:28,804
I didn't know he was on the force too.
499
00:34:29,041 --> 00:34:31,874
Sure. Detective L.C. Bennett.
500
00:34:32,378 --> 00:34:36,712
He was there when they found Beckwith's
rifle, but I've never seen this.
501
00:34:36,915 --> 00:34:38,610
John Goza is dead.
502
00:34:38,817 --> 00:34:40,341
Herbert Speight is dead.
503
00:34:40,786 --> 00:34:43,482
B.L. Pittman is dead.
504
00:34:43,722 --> 00:34:45,087
Is anybody alive?
505
00:34:45,324 --> 00:34:46,814
This is pointless.
506
00:34:49,595 --> 00:34:51,062
It's Jerry Mitchell.
507
00:34:52,898 --> 00:34:53,830
Jerry.
508
00:34:54,767 --> 00:34:56,394
I don't have the gun yet.
509
00:34:56,602 --> 00:35:00,538
I don't have anything. If I find
the gun, you'll be the first to know.
510
00:35:01,240 --> 00:35:03,208
-Pain in my ass.
-It's funny.
511
00:35:03,442 --> 00:35:06,468
I came by to see if you could
use some help on this case...
512
00:35:06,679 --> 00:35:08,909
...and you've got a picture of my daddy.
513
00:35:09,114 --> 00:35:10,877
We sure could use some help.
514
00:35:11,083 --> 00:35:13,176
Can you bring people
back from the dead?
515
00:35:14,186 --> 00:35:17,713
You're joking, but that's
exactly what we have to do.
516
00:35:17,923 --> 00:35:20,391
We have to make the past
start living again.
517
00:35:20,592 --> 00:35:22,787
This whole case is one big resurrection.
518
00:35:22,995 --> 00:35:25,395
I want you to go through
all the literature...
519
00:35:25,597 --> 00:35:27,895
...from every organization
Beckwith was part of:
520
00:35:28,100 --> 00:35:32,059
White Citizens Council,
Sons of the American Revolution, KKK.
521
00:35:32,304 --> 00:35:34,204
Good, I always loved homework.
522
00:35:34,406 --> 00:35:37,341
We'll start by paying
these boys a little visit.
523
00:35:37,543 --> 00:35:38,840
-Who's that?
-Two cops.
524
00:35:39,044 --> 00:35:42,810
They saw Beckwith 90 miles away
at the time of the murder.
525
00:35:43,048 --> 00:35:46,540
You think Holley and Cresswell
will admit they lied under oath?
526
00:35:47,219 --> 00:35:50,120
Time has a way of cleaning up
people's memories.
527
00:35:57,329 --> 00:35:59,388
I love the Delta.
528
00:35:59,631 --> 00:36:01,792
It's the best place on earth.
529
00:36:03,268 --> 00:36:04,565
If you're a mosquito.
530
00:36:09,675 --> 00:36:11,973
-T ake care now.
-Thank you, Mr. Holley.
531
00:36:13,645 --> 00:36:16,614
Sometimes you can't win for losing.
532
00:36:16,882 --> 00:36:19,749
I asked you boys
to meet me out here...
533
00:36:19,952 --> 00:36:24,184
...so as to avoid running
into any of my constituents.
534
00:36:25,157 --> 00:36:28,285
How long have you been
an alderman up here, Mr. Holley?
535
00:36:28,660 --> 00:36:31,026
Must be going on about five years.
536
00:36:31,430 --> 00:36:32,590
I'll tell you this:
537
00:36:32,798 --> 00:36:37,258
If word got out that I testified
on behalf of Byron De La Beckwith....
538
00:36:37,636 --> 00:36:41,163
I suppose, in a way, your boss
and me got the same problem.
539
00:36:41,373 --> 00:36:42,340
Sir?
540
00:36:42,608 --> 00:36:44,269
If we want to keep our jobs...
541
00:36:44,476 --> 00:36:47,274
...we'll have to kiss
an awful lot of black behind.
542
00:36:50,783 --> 00:36:52,182
Mr. Holley...
543
00:36:52,718 --> 00:36:56,848
...Evers was killed shortly after
midnight, 90 miles away in Jackson.
544
00:36:57,055 --> 00:36:59,387
There's no way the killer
could have been here...
545
00:36:59,625 --> 00:37:01,593
...at 1 a.m. pumping gas.
546
00:37:01,894 --> 00:37:04,488
No, sir, that'd be impossible.
547
00:37:04,696 --> 00:37:09,190
It was a long while ago, but I'd like
you to think back and tell me...
548
00:37:09,401 --> 00:37:11,198
...are you sure about the time...
549
00:37:11,403 --> 00:37:13,803
...you saw Mr. Beckwith
at that gas station?
550
00:37:14,206 --> 00:37:16,037
This old memory of mine...
551
00:37:16,241 --> 00:37:19,608
...gets worse and worse
with each passing year...
552
00:37:19,812 --> 00:37:22,440
...but there's two things
I am pretty sure about:
553
00:37:22,648 --> 00:37:25,276
It was approximately 1:03
in the morning...
554
00:37:25,484 --> 00:37:28,715
...and old Delay was gassing up
that Valiant of his.
555
00:37:30,656 --> 00:37:32,556
Lying son of a bitch.
556
00:37:32,825 --> 00:37:35,020
You thought you'd hear
something different?
557
00:37:35,227 --> 00:37:37,752
Maybe we'll have better luck
with his partner.
558
00:37:38,664 --> 00:37:40,529
Y'all wanna subpoena me...
559
00:37:40,732 --> 00:37:42,791
...then you go right ahead and do it.
560
00:37:43,068 --> 00:37:46,663
But if I see you,
Byron De La Beckwith...
561
00:37:46,872 --> 00:37:49,397
...or the blackest nigger
in this country...
562
00:37:49,608 --> 00:37:52,372
...putting gas in his car
at the time of a murder...
563
00:37:52,578 --> 00:37:54,409
...then that's what I'll say.
564
00:37:55,581 --> 00:37:57,446
I'd say he's in our camp.
565
00:38:05,924 --> 00:38:08,051
I wish I had better news
for her today.
566
00:38:08,260 --> 00:38:09,522
Who's that?
567
00:38:10,162 --> 00:38:11,424
Mrs. Evers.
568
00:38:11,930 --> 00:38:13,898
Fill it up for me, would you, buddy?
569
00:38:14,233 --> 00:38:17,999
I call her every Friday and let her
know how the case is progressing.
570
00:38:18,237 --> 00:38:21,104
Got a flash for you.
This case ain't progressing.
571
00:38:21,607 --> 00:38:25,099
I think about her keeping
this thing alive all this time.
572
00:38:25,844 --> 00:38:28,938
Imagine a woman loving a man so much.
573
00:38:31,383 --> 00:38:34,375
I can't even get a woman
to love me while I'm still alive.
574
00:38:34,586 --> 00:38:36,486
Know what I did after my last divorce?
575
00:38:36,722 --> 00:38:38,314
I took up golf.
576
00:38:38,523 --> 00:38:42,687
Man needs a hobby to occupy his mind,
or he'll start doing crazy things...
577
00:38:42,961 --> 00:38:44,622
...Iike drinking too much...
578
00:38:44,830 --> 00:38:48,732
...or chasing 26-year-old murder cases
across the Mississippi Delta.
579
00:38:57,075 --> 00:38:59,771
I told you I'd call you every Friday.
580
00:38:59,978 --> 00:39:03,175
And it's Friday, Mrs. Evers,
so I'm calling.
581
00:39:03,415 --> 00:39:06,179
This really isn't necessary.
582
00:39:06,418 --> 00:39:09,717
It's important to me you know
we're doing what we can.
583
00:39:09,922 --> 00:39:11,913
I wish I had better news
for you today...
584
00:39:12,124 --> 00:39:15,582
...but we still haven't been able
to locate the autopsy report.
585
00:39:15,794 --> 00:39:18,024
Most of the physical evidence
is still missing.
586
00:39:18,330 --> 00:39:21,629
A number of the witnesses have died,
which really hurts us...
587
00:39:21,833 --> 00:39:25,735
...and we've had no luck finding
the original trial transcript.
588
00:39:25,938 --> 00:39:28,907
I've just spoke with
both Holley and Cresswell...
589
00:39:29,107 --> 00:39:30,802
...and they're sticking
by their stories.
590
00:39:31,476 --> 00:39:36,345
I'm sure as the assistant
district attorney of Hinds County...
591
00:39:36,548 --> 00:39:38,812
...you're doing everything
in your power...
592
00:39:39,017 --> 00:39:41,008
...to see that justice is done.
593
00:39:46,858 --> 00:39:48,223
I'll call you next Friday.
594
00:39:48,627 --> 00:39:51,323
I'll be on pins and needles till then.
595
00:41:02,934 --> 00:41:04,925
I waited for you to come home.
596
00:41:07,973 --> 00:41:10,373
I'm not taking the children with me.
597
00:41:12,577 --> 00:41:15,546
I just need to be
on my own for a while.
598
00:41:32,864 --> 00:41:35,924
I was just wondering
when we stopped loving each other.
599
00:41:38,437 --> 00:41:39,734
I don't know.
600
00:41:44,076 --> 00:41:45,634
What happened, Bobby?
601
00:41:48,713 --> 00:41:50,305
People change.
602
00:41:52,651 --> 00:41:54,585
You saying I've changed?
603
00:41:56,388 --> 00:41:58,583
I'm saying you haven't.
604
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:18,537
-It's a beautiful area, Mr. Beckwith.
-It's heaven on earth.
605
00:42:18,743 --> 00:42:20,973
Of course, like everywhere else...
606
00:42:21,313 --> 00:42:24,407
... we do get the occasional
stray nigger moving in.
607
00:42:24,950 --> 00:42:27,418
But their houses always
seem to burn down.
608
00:42:27,652 --> 00:42:31,110
You know how careless niggers are
with their cigarettes.
609
00:42:32,224 --> 00:42:34,215
A real beauty.
610
00:42:34,426 --> 00:42:37,554
-Where'd you get this?
-Ed Bryson at Channel 3.
611
00:42:37,762 --> 00:42:39,957
They're running a piece on Beckwith.
612
00:42:40,165 --> 00:42:41,132
Do you think...
613
00:42:41,366 --> 00:42:44,597
...it's a crime for a white man
to kill a black man?
614
00:42:44,803 --> 00:42:49,035
God put the white man here
to rule over all the dusky races.
615
00:42:49,241 --> 00:42:51,175
It says so in the Bible.
616
00:42:51,376 --> 00:42:52,809
Is there a chance...
617
00:42:53,044 --> 00:42:56,502
... you'd be indicted again
for the murder of Medgar Evers?
618
00:42:56,715 --> 00:43:00,617
Why would I be?
Do you know of any new evidence?
619
00:43:00,819 --> 00:43:01,979
-Are you a Jew?
-Catholic.
620
00:43:02,187 --> 00:43:04,451
I told you, I won't talk to no Jew.
621
00:43:04,656 --> 00:43:07,454
Anybody who knows anything
about Jews and niggers...
622
00:43:07,659 --> 00:43:10,753
...knows that Jews put the niggers
up to all this foolishness.
623
00:43:10,996 --> 00:43:15,296
This CORE and SNCC and NAACP.
624
00:43:15,567 --> 00:43:17,034
If you were indicted again?
625
00:43:17,435 --> 00:43:20,461
Well, I'm just gonna
tend to my business...
626
00:43:20,739 --> 00:43:22,297
...Iike I always have.
627
00:43:22,574 --> 00:43:26,032
I'm gonna look out
for my God, my family...
628
00:43:26,244 --> 00:43:28,644
...and the whole state
of Christ's church.
629
00:43:28,947 --> 00:43:31,711
That don't encompass anybody
but white Christians.
630
00:43:31,917 --> 00:43:33,544
All these other...
631
00:43:33,752 --> 00:43:36,915
...races and colors
and creeds and sissies...
632
00:43:37,122 --> 00:43:40,216
... they are anti-Christs.
See, many of them...
633
00:43:40,425 --> 00:43:43,553
...believe in human sacrifices
and voodoo and such.
634
00:43:43,762 --> 00:43:46,458
According to your way
of thinking...
635
00:43:46,698 --> 00:43:49,599
...how could justice be done
in the Medgar Evers murder?
636
00:43:51,503 --> 00:43:53,733
First, find out
who killed the nigger.
637
00:43:53,939 --> 00:43:55,566
Then you just...
638
00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:58,502
...do whatever the law says
that you can do...
639
00:43:58,710 --> 00:44:01,076
...if you're big enough to do it.
640
00:44:01,713 --> 00:44:03,772
He's daring us to get him.
641
00:44:04,482 --> 00:44:07,246
-We still ain't got nothing.
-I know what you'll say.
642
00:44:07,953 --> 00:44:10,353
-Did I kill Medgar Evers?
-Did you?
643
00:44:10,622 --> 00:44:12,249
I did not kill him.
644
00:44:13,258 --> 00:44:15,419
But he sure is dead.
645
00:44:15,860 --> 00:44:18,226
And he ain't coming back.
646
00:44:19,164 --> 00:44:21,724
What did you think when
you heard he'd been killed?
647
00:44:22,033 --> 00:44:24,001
I didn't shed a tear.
648
00:44:24,202 --> 00:44:25,226
No, sir.
649
00:44:30,075 --> 00:44:34,102
Here. The latest literary efforts
from the "Hate Group of the Month" Club.
650
00:44:34,646 --> 00:44:36,671
For people who got one thing
on their minds...
651
00:44:36,881 --> 00:44:39,577
...they got a lot of ways
to tell you about it.
652
00:44:41,152 --> 00:44:44,349
I wonder what old Judge Moore
would think about all this.
653
00:44:44,589 --> 00:44:46,750
Dixie still living with her mom?
654
00:44:48,526 --> 00:44:49,959
Shit, I'm late!
655
00:44:50,428 --> 00:44:52,419
Hot off the presses. Armed robbery.
656
00:44:52,764 --> 00:44:56,530
A guy named Spratlin held up
Crechelle's, got away with $3800...
657
00:44:56,801 --> 00:44:59,429
-...and an order of onion rings.
-I'll take care of it.
658
00:45:00,171 --> 00:45:01,138
Where you going?
659
00:45:01,339 --> 00:45:03,967
-I said I'd be home by 6.
-What about the Owens case?
660
00:45:04,276 --> 00:45:06,938
-The assault with the baseball bat.
-No, the carjacking.
661
00:45:07,145 --> 00:45:08,908
Right. I'm on top of it.
662
00:45:09,114 --> 00:45:11,674
You want this Evers thing
to be your life's work...
663
00:45:11,883 --> 00:45:13,817
...but there's cases that
occurred in this decade.
664
00:45:14,019 --> 00:45:15,111
I promise.
665
00:45:15,353 --> 00:45:18,220
This office can't keep covering
for you with the judges.
666
00:45:18,456 --> 00:45:21,118
-You'd best be in court tomorrow.
-I'll be there.
667
00:45:27,999 --> 00:45:29,125
Daddy...
668
00:45:29,634 --> 00:45:32,831
...how come Grandpa Russel
would be mad at you?
669
00:45:34,939 --> 00:45:38,466
Mommy said Grandpa Russel
would be mad at you.
670
00:45:39,110 --> 00:45:41,510
Great. What else did Mommy say?
671
00:45:41,746 --> 00:45:45,045
She said that you're doing something
that Grandpa won't like.
672
00:45:46,151 --> 00:45:47,550
Yeah, well....
673
00:45:48,787 --> 00:45:50,311
What are you doing?
674
00:46:00,231 --> 00:46:03,257
Grandpa Russel and I didn't
always agree on things.
675
00:46:03,635 --> 00:46:04,829
What things?
676
00:46:05,904 --> 00:46:09,032
Let's see, how can I explain this?
677
00:46:12,010 --> 00:46:13,341
Explain it.
678
00:46:14,279 --> 00:46:15,405
Right.
679
00:46:16,081 --> 00:46:19,414
You know how sometimes
people can just be different?
680
00:46:19,684 --> 00:46:20,878
Like how?
681
00:46:21,086 --> 00:46:23,179
Grandpa used to eat pig's knuckles.
682
00:46:24,155 --> 00:46:26,487
That's how I feel.
See, we're different.
683
00:46:26,691 --> 00:46:28,716
Grandpa used to like to build things.
684
00:46:28,927 --> 00:46:32,488
I can't build anything,
but I like to work in the garden.
685
00:46:32,731 --> 00:46:36,462
Grandpa had guns all over his house,
and we don't have any guns.
686
00:46:37,035 --> 00:46:38,024
I have a gun.
687
00:46:38,269 --> 00:46:40,703
Yours is a nuclear-powered laser gun.
688
00:46:40,905 --> 00:46:43,499
I'm talking about
handguns and rifles.
689
00:46:45,643 --> 00:46:46,575
Holy shit!
690
00:46:46,778 --> 00:46:47,836
Claire, watch Drew!
691
00:46:48,046 --> 00:46:49,138
Holy shit.
692
00:46:49,381 --> 00:46:50,905
Don't say that.
That's a bad word.
693
00:46:57,155 --> 00:46:58,179
Benny?
694
00:46:58,390 --> 00:47:02,520
Sanders said something about
evidence disappearing after trials.
695
00:47:02,727 --> 00:47:04,718
Do you know anything about that?
696
00:47:05,430 --> 00:47:08,490
My daddy told me that kind of thing
happened all the time.
697
00:47:08,700 --> 00:47:13,637
People used to take stuff as souvenirs.
You know, lawyers, bailiffs, clerks.
698
00:47:14,172 --> 00:47:15,969
How about judges?
699
00:47:17,375 --> 00:47:18,273
That's true.
700
00:47:18,510 --> 00:47:21,172
I'm afraid I won't
be able to play Tuesday.
701
00:47:21,379 --> 00:47:24,405
We have a round robin at the club,
and I promised Lou Ann.
702
00:47:26,918 --> 00:47:29,614
Honey, don't worry about it.
I'll call Charlynne.
703
00:47:29,821 --> 00:47:32,346
If she can't make it, I'll get Louise.
704
00:47:32,557 --> 00:47:37,256
Sugar, play that jack of clubs for me
there, if you would. Please, ma'am.
705
00:47:38,763 --> 00:47:40,424
Hi, Grandma.
706
00:47:40,665 --> 00:47:43,964
What are you doing here?
Dixie's not here.
707
00:47:44,169 --> 00:47:46,865
I thought you'd enjoy
a visit from your grandkids.
708
00:47:47,071 --> 00:47:51,474
Darlin', it's my bridge night tonight.
Drew! Come here.
709
00:47:51,676 --> 00:47:53,906
Well, we can't stay but a minute.
710
00:47:54,145 --> 00:47:57,911
Remember that rifle Judge Moore used
to hold open the door to his study?
711
00:47:58,116 --> 00:48:00,448
Have you seen that around anywhere?
712
00:48:00,819 --> 00:48:02,810
Ladies, y'all know Bobby.
713
00:48:03,021 --> 00:48:04,921
That's Marilyn and Jill and Leah.
714
00:48:05,156 --> 00:48:09,388
I won't keep you from your game.
Go ahead and I'll be right back.
715
00:48:09,627 --> 00:48:12,323
Now, what is he doing here, Caroline?
716
00:48:14,199 --> 00:48:15,632
He's looking for a gun.
717
00:48:23,208 --> 00:48:25,335
I don't appreciate
your roaming around.
718
00:48:25,543 --> 00:48:29,070
I want you coming down
those stairs now, and leave.
719
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:34,081
I spent many a happy hour up here
arguing the law with your husband.
720
00:48:34,352 --> 00:48:37,583
And if he knew what you were up to
with this Evers nonsense...
721
00:48:37,789 --> 00:48:40,087
...that man would
turn over in his grave.
722
00:48:40,391 --> 00:48:42,484
I said that to myself just this morning.
723
00:48:43,394 --> 00:48:45,862
Dixie always said
that you were crazy as hell.
724
00:48:46,097 --> 00:48:47,621
Maybe she did have a point.
725
00:48:48,066 --> 00:48:49,158
I love you...
726
00:48:49,734 --> 00:48:52,532
...but you and Dixie aren't
any more right for each other...
727
00:48:52,737 --> 00:48:54,329
...than the man in the moon.
728
00:48:56,841 --> 00:48:59,002
I'll go back
and resume my bridge game.
729
00:49:00,578 --> 00:49:02,671
You go on ahead.
I'll be right down.
730
00:49:05,683 --> 00:49:08,811
It's best if you come on
back down with me right now.
731
00:49:09,020 --> 00:49:09,952
I prefer it.
732
00:49:16,995 --> 00:49:19,259
Be careful. It could be loaded.
733
00:49:19,464 --> 00:49:21,398
-Hold on to that.
-What are you doing?
734
00:49:21,599 --> 00:49:24,500
-Checking this serial number.
-I love my grandchildren.
735
00:49:24,702 --> 00:49:28,604
-A little bit higher.
-It's inappropriate to march in here...
736
00:49:28,873 --> 00:49:31,774
...and you expect me to just let you....
737
00:49:31,976 --> 00:49:32,965
What?
738
00:49:34,212 --> 00:49:36,271
I love you, Caroline.
739
00:49:37,215 --> 00:49:40,241
-You're full of shit.
-I logged it in the evidence locker.
740
00:49:40,451 --> 00:49:42,851
-Logged what in?
-The gun that killed Medgar Evers.
741
00:49:43,054 --> 00:49:44,681
-You're full of shit.
-Who?
742
00:49:44,889 --> 00:49:46,754
He says he found the gun.
743
00:49:47,225 --> 00:49:50,160
-You're full of shit.
-That's something to tell Mrs. Evers.
744
00:49:50,361 --> 00:49:52,955
I'm not gonna tell Mrs. Evers.
745
00:49:54,232 --> 00:49:57,360
You've been making those Friday calls
so she'd trust you.
746
00:49:57,569 --> 00:50:02,472
-lf she finds out....
-I can't have her find out.
747
00:50:02,674 --> 00:50:04,301
This can't leave the office.
748
00:50:04,876 --> 00:50:09,313
The only way we're gonna get a new
indictment is if we find something...
749
00:50:09,514 --> 00:50:12,278
...they didn't have 27 years ago.
750
00:50:12,483 --> 00:50:15,816
The way I see it, that something
will come from Beckwith.
751
00:50:16,020 --> 00:50:17,920
Right now,
he's on his mountaintop...
752
00:50:18,122 --> 00:50:21,114
...shooting his mouth off
to anyone who'll listen.
753
00:50:21,326 --> 00:50:24,693
No telling what incriminating thing's
liable to come out of that man.
754
00:50:25,029 --> 00:50:27,725
But if he knows we have
something like this...
755
00:50:27,932 --> 00:50:30,162
...he'll know we're serious
and clam up.
756
00:50:30,368 --> 00:50:33,394
I doubt that Beckwith and Myrlie
speak all that often.
757
00:50:33,671 --> 00:50:35,969
Myrlie speaks to Jerry Mitchell.
758
00:50:36,474 --> 00:50:38,999
Jerry Mitchell speaks to the world.
759
00:50:50,588 --> 00:50:53,318
"You best stop wasting
our taxpayers' money.
760
00:50:53,524 --> 00:50:55,458
Enjoy your drive home."
761
00:50:56,094 --> 00:50:59,530
Nice to see Jackson still
has some concerned citizens.
762
00:51:01,099 --> 00:51:04,466
Well, heck, son,
what did you expect?
763
00:51:04,969 --> 00:51:08,268
I expect people to act like
decent, law-abiding citizens.
764
00:51:08,473 --> 00:51:10,464
This is 1990, for crying out loud.
765
00:51:10,675 --> 00:51:15,339
Of course it is. And we got blacks
and whites playing ball together...
766
00:51:15,546 --> 00:51:19,642
...and on the police force,
in the government, on TV.
767
00:51:20,051 --> 00:51:24,283
We are a fully evolved society.
Aren't we, son?
768
00:51:27,291 --> 00:51:28,588
Let me tell you something:
769
00:51:29,027 --> 00:51:33,020
This country may be legally
integrated, but emotionally...
770
00:51:33,231 --> 00:51:35,756
...we will always be segregated.
771
00:51:35,967 --> 00:51:38,128
I don't know that I accept that.
772
00:51:38,636 --> 00:51:39,728
Of course not.
773
00:51:39,971 --> 00:51:41,666
You're Bobby DeLaughter...
774
00:51:41,873 --> 00:51:44,899
...Mississippi's self-appointed
new civil rights leader.
775
00:51:45,443 --> 00:51:46,432
Barney...
776
00:51:46,711 --> 00:51:48,508
...do we have to talk about this?
777
00:51:48,713 --> 00:51:50,908
No, we do not.
778
00:51:52,283 --> 00:51:55,275
Who all wants some of your
grandpa's famous baby backs?
779
00:51:55,486 --> 00:51:57,078
I do! I do!
780
00:52:07,932 --> 00:52:09,422
You're my son.
781
00:52:09,901 --> 00:52:11,528
I don't want you to get hurt.
782
00:52:14,439 --> 00:52:16,839
In Jackson, Mississippi
783
00:52:17,842 --> 00:52:21,278
In 1963
784
00:52:22,113 --> 00:52:25,310
There lived a man
785
00:52:25,516 --> 00:52:26,642
Who was brave
786
00:52:28,853 --> 00:52:32,846
He fought for freedom
787
00:52:33,858 --> 00:52:35,189
Hello, Mrs. Evers?
788
00:52:35,493 --> 00:52:36,721
It's Bobby DeLaughter.
789
00:52:37,495 --> 00:52:39,827
Nothing earth shattering, no.
790
00:52:40,164 --> 00:52:42,325
We've located all the witnesses...
791
00:52:42,533 --> 00:52:45,559
...but without the original
trial transcript...
792
00:52:45,770 --> 00:52:47,761
...it's tough piecing the case together.
793
00:52:49,273 --> 00:52:51,104
No, ma'am, that's about it.
794
00:52:52,009 --> 00:52:55,570
-I wish I had more to report.
-Hang up the phone.
795
00:52:55,813 --> 00:52:58,782
-Hang up the phone.
-I hope I'll have something...
796
00:52:58,983 --> 00:53:01,315
...a little more exciting next Friday.
797
00:53:02,153 --> 00:53:03,450
-You too.
-Hang up.
798
00:53:04,055 --> 00:53:06,489
I'll call you next Friday, Mrs. Evers.
799
00:53:07,425 --> 00:53:09,359
Thank you. Goodbye.
800
00:53:09,827 --> 00:53:10,987
What is going on?
801
00:53:11,229 --> 00:53:14,665
Would a confession by Mr. Beckwith
qualify as exciting?
802
00:53:15,500 --> 00:53:16,330
What do you got?
803
00:53:17,101 --> 00:53:18,125
You know Jack Ables?
804
00:53:18,336 --> 00:53:19,166
The lawyer?
805
00:53:19,370 --> 00:53:22,828
He's representing a movie studio
in a defamation of character suit...
806
00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:27,534
...brought by a couple Klansmen.
While he was doing his research...
807
00:53:27,745 --> 00:53:29,406
...he came across that.
808
00:53:30,915 --> 00:53:32,382
"Klandestine."
809
00:53:32,850 --> 00:53:34,477
It was written 20 years ago...
810
00:53:34,685 --> 00:53:38,382
...about this Klan titan turned
FBl informant, Delmar Dennis.
811
00:53:38,589 --> 00:53:43,526
On page 38, he talks about attending
a Klan rally in August of 1965.
812
00:53:43,861 --> 00:53:46,022
Guess who was a motivational speaker?
813
00:53:48,332 --> 00:53:49,822
-Beckwith?
-Our boy.
814
00:53:50,034 --> 00:53:51,262
Listen to this.
815
00:53:51,669 --> 00:53:53,136
And I quote:
816
00:53:53,538 --> 00:53:57,372
" Killing that nigger gave me no more
discomfort than our wives endure...
817
00:53:57,575 --> 00:53:59,566
...when they give birth
to our children."
818
00:53:59,977 --> 00:54:01,740
Sounds like a confession to me.
819
00:54:01,946 --> 00:54:06,212
Let's run down this Delmar Dennis.
We need to have a chat with him.
820
00:54:14,392 --> 00:54:16,986
$100 says old Delmar
chickens out on us.
821
00:54:17,295 --> 00:54:20,731
He's probably hiding in the woods,
shitting in his drawers.
822
00:54:29,207 --> 00:54:31,107
Where the hell is this place?
823
00:54:31,342 --> 00:54:33,207
This guy informed on the Klan.
824
00:54:33,444 --> 00:54:38,006
He could have made a deal with them
to save his butt by delivering us.
825
00:54:38,216 --> 00:54:39,979
That's a happy thought.
826
00:55:46,350 --> 00:55:48,318
One of you Bobby DeLaughter?
827
00:55:50,221 --> 00:55:53,452
Holding rallies and burning
crosses is one thing...
828
00:55:53,658 --> 00:55:56,957
...but when they killed them
three kids up in Neshoba County...
829
00:55:57,161 --> 00:55:59,459
-...freedom riders--
-Goodman, Chaney, Schwerner?
830
00:56:01,165 --> 00:56:03,895
That made a lot of people
come to their senses.
831
00:56:04,302 --> 00:56:07,931
That's why I decided
to go undercover for the FBl.
832
00:56:08,673 --> 00:56:11,972
I need to ask you if what
you say in that book happened.
833
00:56:12,176 --> 00:56:16,272
That part about Beckwith's speech
at that Klan rally. Is that a fact?
834
00:56:17,148 --> 00:56:18,342
It's a fact.
835
00:56:18,716 --> 00:56:21,981
I was shocked, and I remember
thinking how stupid he was...
836
00:56:22,186 --> 00:56:25,178
...shooting off his mouth
like that in front of 100 men.
837
00:56:25,423 --> 00:56:28,324
-Did you report that to the FBl?
-Sure, I did.
838
00:56:28,559 --> 00:56:31,756
But Beckwith was a white man
accused of killing a black.
839
00:56:31,963 --> 00:56:35,626
The FBl wasn't gonna blow my cover
on a case they couldn't win.
840
00:56:35,833 --> 00:56:37,824
They were saving me
for Neshoba because--
841
00:56:38,235 --> 00:56:39,793
Two of the victims were white.
842
00:56:47,044 --> 00:56:50,172
Mr. Dennis,
if I can't build the case...
843
00:56:50,381 --> 00:56:54,112
...I give you my word that
we never had this conversation.
844
00:56:55,119 --> 00:56:56,552
But if I can...
845
00:56:56,754 --> 00:56:58,312
...will you testify?
846
00:57:02,159 --> 00:57:04,423
Byron De La Beckwith
is the craziest...
847
00:57:04,628 --> 00:57:07,756
...most dangerous son of a bitch
I ever come across.
848
00:57:08,065 --> 00:57:10,659
He's so crazy even
the Klan's afraid of him.
849
00:57:10,901 --> 00:57:12,198
He's an old man now.
850
00:57:12,403 --> 00:57:16,840
That old man is probably more dangerous
today than he was 30 years ago.
851
00:57:17,808 --> 00:57:20,368
Mr. Dennis, we need your help.
852
00:57:21,312 --> 00:57:23,542
I can't make no promises.
853
00:57:27,685 --> 00:57:29,585
You know something, Mr. Dennis?
854
00:57:30,021 --> 00:57:31,545
Six months I've worked this case.
855
00:57:31,756 --> 00:57:34,316
A lot of people have told me
to give it up.
856
00:57:34,525 --> 00:57:37,790
" It's 27 years old.
Let sleeping dogs lie."
857
00:57:37,995 --> 00:57:40,429
But I don't see
what difference it makes...
858
00:57:40,631 --> 00:57:42,792
...if a man was
bushwhacked yesterday...
859
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:45,901
...today or 27 damn years ago.
860
00:57:46,103 --> 00:57:47,764
Murder is murder.
861
00:57:48,506 --> 00:57:51,873
It's still my job to bring
the son of a bitch to justice.
862
00:57:52,076 --> 00:57:53,873
It's still your job to help me.
863
00:57:54,111 --> 00:57:57,478
No. I did my job.
I testified against the Klan.
864
00:57:57,681 --> 00:58:00,081
They shot out my windows,
blew up my car.
865
00:58:00,284 --> 00:58:03,048
They hunted and harassed me
for 25 years!
866
00:58:03,454 --> 00:58:05,581
Don't that get me even
for the wrong I done?
867
00:58:06,857 --> 00:58:09,519
We never get even
for the wrong we've done.
868
00:58:23,274 --> 00:58:25,174
If I do this thing...
869
00:58:27,611 --> 00:58:29,636
...you gotta promise me protection.
870
00:58:39,523 --> 00:58:40,717
What's going on?
871
00:58:41,959 --> 00:58:42,789
Stop that.
872
00:58:42,993 --> 00:58:44,358
Stop that. IKnock it off.
873
00:58:44,595 --> 00:58:45,425
Enough of that!
874
00:58:45,729 --> 00:58:48,197
-What's going on?
-Eddy called you a nigger lover.
875
00:58:48,399 --> 00:58:51,766
My dad says you're after a man
for something that isn't even a crime.
876
00:58:52,002 --> 00:58:55,335
That's enough fighting, son.
You get on home. Go on home.
877
00:58:55,539 --> 00:58:56,972
Let me take a look at you.
878
00:58:57,174 --> 00:59:00,871
My God. Get in this house.
What's gotten into you?
879
00:59:05,449 --> 00:59:08,077
All this fighting.
All this name-calling.
880
00:59:08,586 --> 00:59:09,883
Is this what you want?
881
00:59:10,121 --> 00:59:11,816
To drag your children into this?
882
00:59:12,056 --> 00:59:15,150
What would you have me do?
Let a murderer go free?
883
00:59:15,526 --> 00:59:18,757
I'd never tell you your business.
I'm thinking about the children.
884
00:59:18,963 --> 00:59:22,262
I don't understand why every
decent person in this state...
885
00:59:22,466 --> 00:59:25,663
...isn't sickened by what
happened here 27 years ago.
886
00:59:25,870 --> 00:59:28,134
-Oh, Bobby.
-You're not, are you?
887
00:59:28,339 --> 00:59:30,739
-Not in front of the children.
-Why not?
888
00:59:30,975 --> 00:59:32,408
I was just a kid...
889
00:59:32,610 --> 00:59:35,704
...and I still remember you
and your friends discussing it.
890
00:59:35,913 --> 00:59:39,405
And I recollect someone saying,
"That nigger needed to be shot."
891
00:59:40,684 --> 00:59:42,845
I never said a hateful
thing like that.
892
00:59:43,053 --> 00:59:46,784
-You didn't cry, did you?
-I can't say that I shed any tears--
893
00:59:46,991 --> 00:59:50,552
Had it been our beloved governor,
Ross Barnett, got himself shot...
894
00:59:50,761 --> 00:59:53,491
...you would've been
bawling your eyes out.
895
00:59:53,697 --> 00:59:57,895
Evers left a young widow and three
little kids. Why didn't you cry?
896
00:59:58,102 --> 01:00:00,229
-I don't wanna discuss this now.
-Why?
897
01:00:00,437 --> 01:00:02,928
Because he tried to destroy
our way of life.
898
01:00:03,140 --> 01:00:04,835
And he succeeded all too well.
899
01:00:05,042 --> 01:00:07,806
This state's going to hell
on account of integration.
900
01:00:08,012 --> 01:00:10,810
That's a fact. If you think
they appreciate one thing...
901
01:00:11,015 --> 01:00:12,812
...we gave them, you're crazy.
902
01:00:13,017 --> 01:00:15,508
-Tiger, how do you feel?
-I'm all right.
903
01:00:15,719 --> 01:00:19,211
-Your son has one tough nose.
-So it's not broken?
904
01:00:20,491 --> 01:00:23,585
It'll be tender for a couple days,
then it'll be good as new.
905
01:00:23,861 --> 01:00:25,556
Thank you. I appreciate it.
906
01:00:25,763 --> 01:00:27,162
You're welcome.
907
01:00:27,898 --> 01:00:29,297
Thank you, ma'am.
908
01:00:35,072 --> 01:00:37,472
Are you the one involved
in this Medgar Evers thing?
909
01:00:39,677 --> 01:00:41,110
Yes, I am.
910
01:00:41,645 --> 01:00:45,137
I think what you're trying to do
is very important.
911
01:00:49,253 --> 01:00:51,118
Thank you very much.
912
01:01:06,737 --> 01:01:09,262
I don't want you kids getting
into anymore fights.
913
01:01:09,473 --> 01:01:12,442
-But he called you a--
-I don't care what he called me.
914
01:01:12,643 --> 01:01:16,306
It doesn't bother me. You gotta
learn not to let it bother you.
915
01:01:16,513 --> 01:01:19,676
A lot of people around here
don't like what Daddy's doing now.
916
01:01:20,017 --> 01:01:21,644
What are you doing, Daddy?
917
01:01:23,187 --> 01:01:26,350
I'm trying to put a bad man in jail.
918
01:01:26,924 --> 01:01:28,858
Mama says what you're doing is wrong.
919
01:01:29,059 --> 01:01:32,324
Grandma said Edgar Mevers
is ruining our life.
920
01:01:37,234 --> 01:01:41,000
Medgar Evers was a good guy
who tried to help people.
921
01:01:41,205 --> 01:01:43,765
Did he try to beat the bad guys?
922
01:01:43,974 --> 01:01:47,603
Yes, he did. He fought
so that black people...
923
01:01:47,811 --> 01:01:50,837
...could eat in the same restaurants,
swim in the same pools...
924
01:01:51,048 --> 01:01:54,779
...shop in the same stores and go
to the same schools as white people.
925
01:01:54,985 --> 01:01:56,009
What's wrong with that?
926
01:01:56,220 --> 01:01:57,312
Nothing.
927
01:01:58,455 --> 01:02:01,185
But you'll hear people say
all kinds of bad things...
928
01:02:01,392 --> 01:02:03,053
...about what your daddy's doing.
929
01:02:03,260 --> 01:02:06,195
They're gonna tease you,
try to pick fights.
930
01:02:06,563 --> 01:02:08,326
But no matter what they do...
931
01:02:08,899 --> 01:02:11,060
...I want you to walk away.
932
01:02:12,102 --> 01:02:14,161
What if they say
something really mean?
933
01:02:14,371 --> 01:02:17,966
They're only words. They can't
hurt you unless you let them.
934
01:02:18,175 --> 01:02:20,643
Is this about sticks and stones?
935
01:02:20,844 --> 01:02:23,506
That's exactly what this is about.
936
01:02:23,814 --> 01:02:25,543
Y'all understand what I'm saying?
937
01:02:25,749 --> 01:02:26,841
Yes, sir.
938
01:02:27,184 --> 01:02:28,344
All right.
939
01:02:28,652 --> 01:02:30,051
All y'all get on to bed now.
940
01:02:31,555 --> 01:02:32,749
Good night.
941
01:02:54,878 --> 01:02:58,405
I heard you had a little visit
with my friend Delmar.
942
01:02:58,615 --> 01:02:59,673
Mr. Beckwith?
943
01:03:00,050 --> 01:03:03,611
Next time you see old Delmar,
you tell him for me...
944
01:03:03,887 --> 01:03:05,912
...there are a lot
of dark, winding roads...
945
01:03:06,123 --> 01:03:10,719
... between the backwoods of Louisiana
and a courtroom in Mississippi.
946
01:03:11,295 --> 01:03:13,889
A man could get lost.
947
01:03:23,674 --> 01:03:25,301
Claire, what's the matter?
948
01:03:25,843 --> 01:03:27,936
The ghost's in my room again.
949
01:03:31,815 --> 01:03:33,806
Let's see what we can do.
950
01:03:36,754 --> 01:03:38,984
-Where is he?
-Sitting right there.
951
01:03:39,189 --> 01:03:40,713
Oh, right.
952
01:03:42,426 --> 01:03:44,485
Daddy, sing "Dixie."
953
01:03:46,497 --> 01:03:48,260
Hop into bed, sweetie.
954
01:03:58,809 --> 01:03:59,901
Sing.
955
01:04:01,445 --> 01:04:05,074
You know, sweetie, maybe
" Dixie" is not the right song.
956
01:04:05,549 --> 01:04:07,915
Maybe that's why
this ghost keeps coming back.
957
01:04:08,118 --> 01:04:10,109
-But you said--
-I know, baby.
958
01:04:10,788 --> 01:04:14,155
But I'm not so sure
that all ghosts like "Dixie."
959
01:04:14,358 --> 01:04:17,122
But how do we know
what this ghost likes?
960
01:04:17,694 --> 01:04:22,154
Seeing as this is your special ghost,
maybe he'll like your favorite song.
961
01:04:22,366 --> 01:04:23,958
"Old MacDonald"?
962
01:04:24,168 --> 01:04:25,795
Let's give it a try.
963
01:04:27,805 --> 01:04:29,796
Old MacDonald had a farm
964
01:04:30,073 --> 01:04:31,631
E-I-E-I-O
965
01:04:31,842 --> 01:04:33,776
And on that farm he had a--
966
01:04:33,977 --> 01:04:34,875
What?
967
01:04:35,379 --> 01:04:36,539
A ghost?
968
01:04:38,549 --> 01:04:40,779
And on that farm he had a ghost
969
01:04:40,984 --> 01:04:42,474
E-I-E-I-O
970
01:04:42,820 --> 01:04:44,788
With a boo boo here
And a boo boo there
971
01:04:44,988 --> 01:04:47,616
Here a boo, there a boo
Everywhere a boo boo
972
01:05:01,438 --> 01:05:02,962
You wanted to have lunch
to talk about Burt's nose?
973
01:05:03,740 --> 01:05:04,968
No, actually, l....
974
01:05:05,175 --> 01:05:06,665
I didn't think so.
975
01:05:09,246 --> 01:05:11,077
So then, this is a date?
976
01:05:12,516 --> 01:05:13,642
Apparently.
977
01:05:14,084 --> 01:05:15,881
In the hospital cafeteria?
978
01:05:16,086 --> 01:05:20,523
I took a chance. I thought
it would either be stupid or charming.
979
01:05:21,225 --> 01:05:22,192
What do you think?
980
01:05:22,626 --> 01:05:24,218
Is there a third choice?
981
01:05:24,428 --> 01:05:25,360
Extremely charming?
982
01:05:25,562 --> 01:05:27,086
That's the one.
983
01:05:29,366 --> 01:05:31,095
How'd you get into all this?
984
01:05:31,535 --> 01:05:33,526
You want the standard answer
or the truth?
985
01:05:33,737 --> 01:05:35,261
How about a little of both?
986
01:05:37,274 --> 01:05:39,367
I always liked helping people...
987
01:05:39,576 --> 01:05:40,736
...and I like the hours.
988
01:05:41,011 --> 01:05:42,342
Which answer was that?
989
01:05:42,546 --> 01:05:43,911
A little of both.
990
01:05:44,147 --> 01:05:47,708
But I do like that I work
one week on and one week off.
991
01:05:48,085 --> 01:05:49,245
Can't beat that.
992
01:05:49,453 --> 01:05:52,650
Have to be careful not to shop
too much in that week off.
993
01:05:52,856 --> 01:05:55,450
That can kill you.
What about you?
994
01:05:56,126 --> 01:05:58,924
I wanted to be a lawyer
since I was a little kid.
995
01:05:59,129 --> 01:06:00,756
I watched Perry Mason...
996
01:06:00,964 --> 01:06:03,899
...all the time.
I identified with him.
997
01:06:04,134 --> 01:06:06,602
-But he was a defense attorney.
-I know.
998
01:06:07,070 --> 01:06:09,937
Later, I realized the only way
he ever won a case...
999
01:06:10,140 --> 01:06:12,734
...is if some guy jumped up
and yelled, "I did it!"
1000
01:06:12,943 --> 01:06:16,140
That didn't happen often,
so I switched to the other side.
1001
01:06:16,480 --> 01:06:18,812
I think it's a good thing you did.
1002
01:06:21,418 --> 01:06:23,852
You would be in
the minority these days.
1003
01:06:25,122 --> 01:06:28,319
There are a lot more people
on your side than you think.
1004
01:06:29,426 --> 01:06:32,486
You're not saying that because
I bought you a lime Jell-O?
1005
01:06:33,730 --> 01:06:36,164
Well, it is the way
to a woman's heart.
1006
01:06:38,769 --> 01:06:43,206
But if you could pull this off,
it'd do Mississippi a whole lot of good.
1007
01:06:44,942 --> 01:06:46,170
And if I don't?
1008
01:06:47,778 --> 01:06:49,939
I'll pretend I never met you.
1009
01:06:57,454 --> 01:07:00,389
I have renewed faith
in the institution of marriage.
1010
01:07:00,591 --> 01:07:02,957
I can't get enough
of my hunk of burning love.
1011
01:07:03,160 --> 01:07:05,128
Not now, Clara May!
1012
01:07:07,798 --> 01:07:09,288
Clara Mayfield.
1013
01:07:10,701 --> 01:07:13,295
-It's Jerry Mitchell.
-I'll take it.
1014
01:07:19,376 --> 01:07:21,936
-I know you have the gun.
-We've been over this.
1015
01:07:22,145 --> 01:07:24,443
I know you found it
in Russel Moore's den.
1016
01:07:25,315 --> 01:07:29,775
There'll be a story about how the
D.A. Iied to the people of Jackson...
1017
01:07:29,987 --> 01:07:32,683
...and how Bobby DeLaughter
lied to Myrlie Evers.
1018
01:07:32,889 --> 01:07:35,414
I'm calling to see
if you care to comment.
1019
01:07:35,626 --> 01:07:37,457
You've explained why
you lied to the press.
1020
01:07:37,661 --> 01:07:40,186
You still have not explained
why you lied to me.
1021
01:07:40,397 --> 01:07:42,957
I told you. Jerry Mitchell
is a loose cannon.
1022
01:07:43,166 --> 01:07:46,135
This case was so delicate,
I didn't want to take chances.
1023
01:07:46,336 --> 01:07:50,329
I'm the last person on earth who
would jeopardize this investigation.
1024
01:07:50,540 --> 01:07:52,974
There's something
you're not telling me.
1025
01:07:53,176 --> 01:07:56,043
I swear to God, there is no cover-up.
1026
01:07:56,246 --> 01:07:59,306
You fully intend to seek
an indictment and a new trial?
1027
01:07:59,516 --> 01:08:01,711
That's what we've
been working toward.
1028
01:08:01,918 --> 01:08:04,011
I thought so, Mr. DeLaughter.
1029
01:08:04,421 --> 01:08:05,854
I thought so.
1030
01:08:06,156 --> 01:08:09,717
This latest revelation only proves
what we've suspected all along.
1031
01:08:09,926 --> 01:08:13,987
Peters and DeLaughter are just putting
on a show for the black community.
1032
01:08:14,197 --> 01:08:18,224
As far as I'm concerned, they're nothing
but a pair of lying racists...
1033
01:08:18,435 --> 01:08:20,062
...who never, I repeat, never...
1034
01:08:20,270 --> 01:08:23,239
...had any intention
of prosecuting this case.
1035
01:08:25,275 --> 01:08:26,435
You wanted to see me?
1036
01:08:26,643 --> 01:08:28,543
Come on, sit down.
1037
01:08:31,381 --> 01:08:35,442
You don't mind being seen in
the same room with a "lying racist"?
1038
01:08:36,253 --> 01:08:38,050
I don't mind if you don't.
1039
01:08:39,723 --> 01:08:41,088
You know Pat Bennett?
1040
01:08:41,625 --> 01:08:44,560
Sure, she's one of the best
lawyers in the state.
1041
01:08:46,063 --> 01:08:47,587
Why are we talking about her?
1042
01:08:48,899 --> 01:08:52,062
I thought she might be able
to help you on the case.
1043
01:08:52,969 --> 01:08:55,233
I've got it under control, Ed.
1044
01:08:57,641 --> 01:09:00,269
You have your share of
the 93 capital murder cases...
1045
01:09:00,477 --> 01:09:02,809
...we have waiting for trial
under control?
1046
01:09:03,580 --> 01:09:05,878
What new excuse would
you suggest I give...
1047
01:09:06,083 --> 01:09:09,382
...to the families as to why those
who've murdered their loved ones...
1048
01:09:09,586 --> 01:09:11,315
...have yet to see a courtroom?
1049
01:09:11,988 --> 01:09:15,583
I'm just curious.
The fact that Pat Bennett is black...
1050
01:09:15,792 --> 01:09:18,454
...wouldn't have anything to do
with this, would it?
1051
01:09:19,196 --> 01:09:21,357
I'm not gonna dignify that.
1052
01:09:23,366 --> 01:09:26,858
Whatever you may think,
this is not the Bobby DeLaughter case.
1053
01:09:27,070 --> 01:09:30,506
This is a case against the peace
and dignity of Mississippi.
1054
01:09:31,441 --> 01:09:33,875
Monday morning, I'm making a change.
1055
01:09:38,982 --> 01:09:42,383
You're about to hear the testimony
of a fingerprint expert...
1056
01:09:42,586 --> 01:09:46,886
...concerning evidence he claims
to have identified in a certain glass.
1057
01:09:47,090 --> 01:09:48,751
You're entitled to consider...
1058
01:09:48,959 --> 01:09:52,793
... the prosecution's failure to make
the glass available to the defense.
1059
01:09:52,996 --> 01:09:57,524
It is permissible that for one fact
alone to raise a doubt in your minds...
1060
01:09:57,734 --> 01:10:00,134
... that will require
Mrs. Savage's acquittal.
1061
01:10:00,337 --> 01:10:03,670
-Can he do that?
-This is my case, damn it.
1062
01:10:03,874 --> 01:10:05,899
How dare they say
I'm putting on a show?
1063
01:10:06,109 --> 01:10:09,476
Only two people care about
this case, and I'm one of them.
1064
01:10:09,679 --> 01:10:13,445
If anybody's putting on a show,
they are. The only thing they' re--
1065
01:10:14,117 --> 01:10:17,644
They're only trying to stir up
emotions and position themselves...
1066
01:10:17,854 --> 01:10:20,288
...as the saviors
of the black community.
1067
01:10:28,398 --> 01:10:29,558
Where you going?
1068
01:10:48,752 --> 01:10:51,550
This is Bobby DeLaughter.
I hope I didn't disturb you.
1069
01:10:53,223 --> 01:10:55,316
This won't take but a minute, ma'am.
1070
01:10:56,726 --> 01:10:58,956
When I started off,
I had nothing more than...
1071
01:10:59,162 --> 01:11:02,154
...a couple of pages
in an old police report.
1072
01:11:02,933 --> 01:11:06,096
I spent the better part of a year
bumping up against dead witnesses...
1073
01:11:06,303 --> 01:11:08,294
...and tracking down live ones.
1074
01:11:08,505 --> 01:11:11,838
My car's been vandalized,
my son's been in a fight...
1075
01:11:12,042 --> 01:11:15,637
...and I've been called ugly things
by every racist in Mississippi.
1076
01:11:15,846 --> 01:11:17,939
Now, when there's a chance
for an indictment...
1077
01:11:18,148 --> 01:11:20,309
...I've gotta fight off
black politicians too.
1078
01:11:20,517 --> 01:11:24,647
I'm sorry I lied about the gun,
but I've made a commitment to this case.
1079
01:11:24,855 --> 01:11:26,049
I'll be goddamned--
1080
01:11:26,256 --> 01:11:29,089
Pardon me, if I give it up
to some special prosecutor...
1081
01:11:29,292 --> 01:11:31,692
...I don't care if he's
black, green or blue.
1082
01:11:31,895 --> 01:11:34,955
I'm committed and I'm asking you
to make a commitment to me.
1083
01:11:35,165 --> 01:11:37,895
If you do, I'll ride this thing
to the finish line...
1084
01:11:38,101 --> 01:11:40,365
...or collapse
heading in that direction.
1085
01:11:41,938 --> 01:11:44,566
Thank you for your call,
Mr. DeLaughter.
1086
01:11:49,012 --> 01:11:51,412
The hell with her!
She's like all the rest.
1087
01:11:51,615 --> 01:11:55,745
The white world hasn't gone out
of its way to make her trusting.
1088
01:11:55,952 --> 01:11:57,817
When does it start?
What do I have to do?
1089
01:11:58,021 --> 01:12:01,013
We had a real chance to send
a message to this country...
1090
01:12:01,224 --> 01:12:04,193
...that Mississippi isn't
a bunch of redneck racists.
1091
01:12:04,394 --> 01:12:08,490
My mother was right. We should
separate and let the South rise again.
1092
01:12:08,698 --> 01:12:10,825
-You don't believe that.
-Why not?
1093
01:12:11,034 --> 01:12:12,524
She doesn't want my help.
1094
01:12:12,736 --> 01:12:15,170
I'm just another white man
putting her in her place.
1095
01:12:15,372 --> 01:12:17,863
She sees no difference
between me and Beckwith.
1096
01:12:18,074 --> 01:12:19,974
-You didn't tell her about the gun.
-Right.
1097
01:12:20,243 --> 01:12:24,270
If I had it to do over again,
I still wouldn't have told her.
1098
01:12:24,481 --> 01:12:28,440
IKeeping the discovery of the murder
weapon a secret was a good strategy.
1099
01:12:28,652 --> 01:12:32,782
It wouldn't bother her a lick if I was
black. I'd just be a smart lawyer.
1100
01:12:33,423 --> 01:12:35,618
You can't have it both ways.
1101
01:12:35,959 --> 01:12:37,688
What do you mean by that?
1102
01:12:39,262 --> 01:12:41,958
You said the reason you didn't
tell her about the gun...
1103
01:12:42,165 --> 01:12:44,793
...was that you were afraid
she would leak the story.
1104
01:12:45,001 --> 01:12:48,095
You can't expect her to trust you,
if you don't trust her.
1105
01:13:06,289 --> 01:13:09,520
I want you to meet with Pat Bennett
and bring her up to speed.
1106
01:13:11,328 --> 01:13:12,352
Fine.
1107
01:13:13,697 --> 01:13:15,130
It's for the best.
1108
01:13:16,266 --> 01:13:17,858
If you say so.
1109
01:13:40,857 --> 01:13:42,848
I'm going out.
You want something?
1110
01:13:43,059 --> 01:13:46,790
I'd like a Mercedes convertible,
but I'd settle for a Dr. Pepper.
1111
01:14:42,318 --> 01:14:45,719
There are four important
things in my life:
1112
01:14:46,623 --> 01:14:48,750
Medgar, Walter...
1113
01:14:49,059 --> 01:14:50,424
...my children...
1114
01:14:50,727 --> 01:14:52,126
...and this...
1115
01:14:52,762 --> 01:14:56,061
...the original
court-certified transcript.
1116
01:14:56,633 --> 01:14:59,193
I've kept this for 27 years...
1117
01:14:59,502 --> 01:15:01,766
...through three district attorneys.
1118
01:15:01,971 --> 01:15:03,871
Once I give this up...
1119
01:15:04,074 --> 01:15:06,941
...I know that it may be gone forever.
1120
01:15:16,586 --> 01:15:19,146
I don't believe you'll find
anymore opposition...
1121
01:15:19,355 --> 01:15:21,846
...to your continuing
to handle this case.
1122
01:15:23,159 --> 01:15:24,421
Thank you, ma'am.
1123
01:15:27,330 --> 01:15:29,423
It's truly appreciated.
1124
01:15:30,400 --> 01:15:32,664
Let's get the son of a bitch.
1125
01:15:33,937 --> 01:15:35,336
My pleasure.
1126
01:15:37,474 --> 01:15:39,567
The decision by the D.A.'s office...
1127
01:15:39,776 --> 01:15:43,735
...to re-open the 27-year-old murder
case of Byron De La Beckwith...
1128
01:15:43,947 --> 01:15:45,608
...continues to cause controversy.
1129
01:15:45,949 --> 01:15:48,884
Citizens of Jackson are concerned...
1130
01:15:49,085 --> 01:15:52,384
... that taxpayers' money is being
used to dig up the past.
1131
01:15:52,589 --> 01:15:56,320
The grand jury handed down an
indictment of Byron De La Beckwith...
1132
01:15:56,526 --> 01:15:59,518
...in the murder of
civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
1133
01:15:59,729 --> 01:16:01,253
Extradition in the Beckwith case...
1134
01:16:01,464 --> 01:16:04,695
...is seen as a stumbling
block for the D.A.'s office.
1135
01:16:04,901 --> 01:16:07,267
I plan to fight repossession--
What's the word?
1136
01:16:07,470 --> 01:16:10,633
Extradition tooth, nail and claw!
1137
01:16:11,174 --> 01:16:14,166
In an attempt to replace
a lost autopsy report...
1138
01:16:14,377 --> 01:16:18,143
... the D.A.'s office of Hinds County
today received permission...
1139
01:16:18,348 --> 01:16:20,441
...by the Evers family
to exhume the body...
1140
01:16:20,650 --> 01:16:24,086
...of slain civil rights leader
Medgar Evers.
1141
01:16:24,754 --> 01:16:28,281
The body, buried in
Arlington National Cemetery in 1963...
1142
01:16:28,491 --> 01:16:31,153
... was found in remarkably
near-perfect condition.
1143
01:16:35,265 --> 01:16:38,291
After 18 months, extradition was
finally granted...
1144
01:16:38,501 --> 01:16:40,469
...in the case
of Byron De La Beckwith...
1145
01:16:40,670 --> 01:16:44,538
... the man accused of slaying
civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
1146
01:16:45,608 --> 01:16:50,136
Beckwith will face murder charges
30 years after the initial two trials...
1147
01:16:50,346 --> 01:16:53,474
...for the same offense
ended in hung juries.
1148
01:16:53,683 --> 01:16:54,547
Thank you, son.
1149
01:16:54,851 --> 01:16:56,546
" I first received the call...
1150
01:16:56,753 --> 01:16:58,687
...at 9 :42 p. m...
1151
01:16:58,888 --> 01:17:02,585
...on the night of June 12, 1963.
1152
01:17:04,360 --> 01:17:06,988
My partner and I responded
and proceeded to the crime scene...
1153
01:17:07,197 --> 01:17:10,530
...Iocated at 2332 Guynes Street."
1154
01:17:10,867 --> 01:17:12,528
That's pretty good, Benny...
1155
01:17:12,735 --> 01:17:15,670
...but just because you read
the part of a dead witness...
1156
01:17:15,872 --> 01:17:18,773
...doesn't mean you have to
act like you're actually dead.
1157
01:17:18,975 --> 01:17:20,374
I'm doing my best.
1158
01:17:20,577 --> 01:17:22,044
I know you are.
1159
01:17:22,245 --> 01:17:24,736
Medgar Evers' autopsy report
just came in.
1160
01:17:25,381 --> 01:17:28,714
You're not gonna believe this.
He's still dead.
1161
01:17:29,185 --> 01:17:30,379
Thank you, Clara.
1162
01:17:30,587 --> 01:17:34,045
I got off the phone with Charles Evers.
He won't come to the trial.
1163
01:17:34,257 --> 01:17:35,087
Did he say why?
1164
01:17:35,291 --> 01:17:36,553
He wouldn't say.
1165
01:17:36,759 --> 01:17:39,057
Get me the address
of his radio station.
1166
01:17:39,262 --> 01:17:41,423
They found a bullet fragment
in the body.
1167
01:17:41,631 --> 01:17:44,156
It's consistent with a.30-06 Enfield.
1168
01:17:45,134 --> 01:17:49,070
You'll be sorry. What happened to
that nigger will happen to you.
1169
01:17:50,440 --> 01:17:51,270
Another one?
1170
01:17:53,109 --> 01:17:57,136
Closer we get to trial, the more
nutjobs will crawl out of the woodwork.
1171
01:17:58,348 --> 01:17:59,246
You got a gun?
1172
01:18:00,783 --> 01:18:02,410
Here. T ake this.
1173
01:18:02,952 --> 01:18:04,817
No, wait. T ake this.
1174
01:18:06,456 --> 01:18:08,048
T ake this.
1175
01:18:32,382 --> 01:18:35,818
That was Muddy Waters doing
his thing for y'all.
1176
01:18:36,019 --> 01:18:39,011
Now I'll play a little something
that goes way back.
1177
01:18:39,222 --> 01:18:42,191
The great Robert Johnson.
1178
01:18:46,629 --> 01:18:47,687
Mr. Evers?
1179
01:18:51,067 --> 01:18:53,535
-Hi, I'm--
-Bobby DeLaughter.
1180
01:18:54,971 --> 01:18:56,700
Please sit down.
1181
01:19:06,549 --> 01:19:07,880
Robert Johnson.
1182
01:19:08,384 --> 01:19:10,614
IKing of the Delta Blues.
1183
01:19:13,456 --> 01:19:15,788
-Thank you.
-You're welcome.
1184
01:19:18,361 --> 01:19:20,488
May your soul rise up to heaven...
1185
01:19:20,697 --> 01:19:23,165
...'fore the devil knows you're dead.
1186
01:19:29,672 --> 01:19:34,371
They say Robert Johnson sold his soul to
the devil to play the guitar like that.
1187
01:19:34,777 --> 01:19:35,675
What do you think?
1188
01:19:35,878 --> 01:19:40,178
If the devil wanted my soul, it'd cost
a lot more than some guitar lessons.
1189
01:19:43,419 --> 01:19:45,910
I believe after this trial's over...
1190
01:19:46,122 --> 01:19:48,556
...Mississippi come through this time.
1191
01:19:48,858 --> 01:19:51,725
That's why I came here
to talk with you, Mr. Evers.
1192
01:19:51,928 --> 01:19:55,796
Would you change your mind and come
to the trial? Your presence...
1193
01:19:55,998 --> 01:19:57,932
...would mean a great deal.
1194
01:19:59,769 --> 01:20:02,169
Let me tell you something.
1195
01:20:03,439 --> 01:20:05,930
Medgar was my baby brother.
1196
01:20:06,576 --> 01:20:09,340
There ain't nothing
I wouldn't do for him.
1197
01:20:10,413 --> 01:20:12,142
When we were little kids...
1198
01:20:12,348 --> 01:20:14,111
...we used to sleep in the same bed.
1199
01:20:14,317 --> 01:20:15,716
And on cold nights...
1200
01:20:15,918 --> 01:20:19,547
...I'd climb in first just so I could
warm up the sheets for him.
1201
01:20:22,125 --> 01:20:25,458
I didn't go to the first two trials.
1202
01:20:26,763 --> 01:20:28,287
Myrlie...
1203
01:20:28,965 --> 01:20:32,366
...a lot of people,
they criticized me for that.
1204
01:20:33,169 --> 01:20:35,797
But I won't go
to no third trial neither...
1205
01:20:36,839 --> 01:20:39,433
...and for the exact same reason.
1206
01:20:39,642 --> 01:20:43,669
I know if I ever got in the same room
with Byron De La Beckwith...
1207
01:20:43,880 --> 01:20:46,314
...as God is my witness...
1208
01:20:46,649 --> 01:20:50,141
...I'd wrap my hands around
his chicken neck and snap it in half.
1209
01:20:50,353 --> 01:20:52,082
And nobody...
1210
01:20:52,288 --> 01:20:54,222
...be able to stop me.
1211
01:20:55,892 --> 01:20:57,519
I wouldn't blame you.
1212
01:20:57,727 --> 01:20:58,955
Nobody hardly ever...
1213
01:20:59,162 --> 01:21:01,562
...remembers Medgar anymore.
1214
01:21:02,532 --> 01:21:04,397
Whites or blacks.
1215
01:21:05,067 --> 01:21:07,399
And that's a goddamn shame.
1216
01:21:08,137 --> 01:21:10,970
Because whatever rights
the black man has now...
1217
01:21:11,174 --> 01:21:14,507
...he's got because of something
called the Civil Rights Movement.
1218
01:21:14,710 --> 01:21:17,838
And for a long time here
in the state of Mississippi...
1219
01:21:18,347 --> 01:21:22,147
...before the television, newspapers,
back before the fancy speeches...
1220
01:21:22,351 --> 01:21:26,344
...my brother, Medgar, was
the Civil Rights Movement.
1221
01:21:31,994 --> 01:21:36,488
I'm sitting here tonight,
talking to my friend and your friend...
1222
01:21:36,699 --> 01:21:39,361
...Assistant District Attorney
Bobby DeLaughter.
1223
01:21:39,569 --> 01:21:42,697
We're talking about my brother,
Medgar Evers...
1224
01:21:42,905 --> 01:21:47,706
...and we're gonna play the blues
for Medgar all night long.
1225
01:21:58,221 --> 01:22:00,382
You and my sister-in-law...
1226
01:22:01,491 --> 01:22:03,425
...you get justice for my brother.
1227
01:22:13,202 --> 01:22:15,397
Devil, if you listening...
1228
01:22:15,638 --> 01:22:17,936
...I won't sell my soul
for no guitar lessons...
1229
01:22:18,140 --> 01:22:20,574
...but I'll sell my soul for that.
1230
01:22:25,214 --> 01:22:27,079
Are you surprised bail
was granted so quickly?
1231
01:22:27,283 --> 01:22:30,081
Mr. Beckwith was being held
as a political prisoner.
1232
01:22:30,286 --> 01:22:33,449
He's not been found guilty.
Why should he be kept in jail?
1233
01:22:34,824 --> 01:22:37,315
Mr. Scott, you're an officer
of the Nationalist Movement, correct?
1234
01:22:37,527 --> 01:22:39,859
Is that where the money came from
to secure his bond?
1235
01:22:40,062 --> 01:22:44,294
Mr. Beckwith has a lot of friends here.
We'll do whatever it takes.
1236
01:22:44,767 --> 01:22:48,999
Suppose he doesn't show for the trial?
Suppose he leaves the country?
1237
01:22:49,205 --> 01:22:51,264
If he runs, we'll find him.
1238
01:22:51,474 --> 01:22:53,203
How long will that take?
1239
01:22:53,409 --> 01:22:56,207
Another five years? Another 10?
1240
01:22:56,412 --> 01:23:00,439
I've already devoted a lifetime to this.
That ought to be enough.
1241
01:23:01,417 --> 01:23:03,942
Yes, ma'am. It sure ought to be.
1242
01:23:08,891 --> 01:23:10,518
I'm sorry, Bobby.
1243
01:23:11,627 --> 01:23:13,618
It's all right, Mrs. Evers.
1244
01:23:13,829 --> 01:23:15,319
It's quite all right.
1245
01:23:42,391 --> 01:23:44,951
-How's Jared doing?
-Fine.
1246
01:23:45,161 --> 01:23:48,426
He and Burt seem like
they've been brothers all their lives.
1247
01:23:48,631 --> 01:23:50,155
They all sleeping?
1248
01:23:51,834 --> 01:23:54,064
And that's what you should be doing.
1249
01:23:54,904 --> 01:23:57,099
I want the opening statement
to be great.
1250
01:23:57,873 --> 01:24:00,273
It was great when you read
it three nights ago.
1251
01:24:00,476 --> 01:24:02,410
Unless you snuck in something about...
1252
01:24:02,612 --> 01:24:04,705
...Beckwith deserving
the Nobel Peace Prize...
1253
01:24:04,914 --> 01:24:07,144
...I'm sure it'll be great
tomorrow morning.
1254
01:24:07,350 --> 01:24:09,875
You see? That's why I look to you.
1255
01:24:10,086 --> 01:24:13,544
Eliminate Nobel Peace Prize reference.
1256
01:24:13,756 --> 01:24:15,223
That's good.
1257
01:24:17,560 --> 01:24:21,826
I left a gift for you in appreciation
for everything you're doing...
1258
01:24:22,031 --> 01:24:23,896
... to ruin civilized society.
1259
01:24:24,100 --> 01:24:27,331
-What the hell is this?
-It's scheduled to go off at 10 p.m.
1260
01:24:27,536 --> 01:24:29,527
You have a nice night.
1261
01:24:34,043 --> 01:24:34,873
It's a bomb.
1262
01:24:39,882 --> 01:24:41,679
Everybody, get up.
Let's go.
1263
01:24:41,884 --> 01:24:43,249
What's going on?
1264
01:24:43,452 --> 01:24:47,354
It's nothing at all. Outside that door.
A little drill is all.
1265
01:24:47,556 --> 01:24:49,148
Head for the front door.
1266
01:25:23,292 --> 01:25:25,453
Is this still the drill?
1267
01:25:38,574 --> 01:25:40,132
Where are we going, Dad?
1268
01:25:40,342 --> 01:25:42,469
Told you we're going
to the Holiday Inn.
1269
01:25:42,678 --> 01:25:45,112
Is that where we're going?
The Holiday Inn?
1270
01:25:45,314 --> 01:25:46,212
That's right.
1271
01:25:46,415 --> 01:25:50,749
We haven't found anything,
but we'll go through it one more time.
1272
01:25:50,953 --> 01:25:52,784
I appreciate that.
1273
01:26:13,042 --> 01:26:17,638
I told them if anything ever happened,
all they had to do was walk away.
1274
01:26:19,815 --> 01:26:22,978
How're they supposed to walk away
from a bomb?
1275
01:26:27,957 --> 01:26:29,891
There wasn't a bomb.
1276
01:26:32,428 --> 01:26:33,895
This time.
1277
01:26:37,433 --> 01:26:40,300
If you want to give this thing up,
I understand.
1278
01:26:40,503 --> 01:26:44,030
No one could fault you. But the world
isn't going to be any safer.
1279
01:26:44,240 --> 01:26:47,107
I don't give a shit about the world.
These are my children.
1280
01:26:47,309 --> 01:26:48,640
Yes, they are.
1281
01:26:48,844 --> 01:26:51,335
Someday they'll be able
to tell their children...
1282
01:26:51,547 --> 01:26:54,277
...that their daddy put away
Medgar Evers' killer.
1283
01:26:54,850 --> 01:26:57,785
Medgar Evers was a fool,
and my daddy was right.
1284
01:26:57,987 --> 01:27:00,285
Doesn't matter how many
civil rights laws you pass.
1285
01:27:00,489 --> 01:27:02,787
You'll never legislate
how people think.
1286
01:27:02,992 --> 01:27:05,654
There are always gonna be
a few misguided people.
1287
01:27:05,861 --> 01:27:09,957
I'm not talking about a few people.
I'm talking about everybody, about us.
1288
01:27:10,166 --> 01:27:12,634
Do we have one single
black friend? No.
1289
01:27:12,835 --> 01:27:15,303
We don't have dinner with them
or have them over.
1290
01:27:15,504 --> 01:27:17,131
We don't sit with them in church.
1291
01:27:17,339 --> 01:27:20,137
You think this one trial will
magically change this?
1292
01:27:20,376 --> 01:27:22,037
No, I don't.
1293
01:27:22,511 --> 01:27:24,035
It's a step.
1294
01:27:24,780 --> 01:27:26,805
That's all anyone can do
is take a step.
1295
01:27:27,016 --> 01:27:29,143
Why do I have to take that step?
1296
01:27:29,351 --> 01:27:32,286
So some sick son of a bitch
can murder my wife and kids?
1297
01:27:32,488 --> 01:27:35,150
Excuse me if I'm not interested
in taking that step.
1298
01:27:35,357 --> 01:27:36,551
Where are you going?
1299
01:27:36,759 --> 01:27:38,522
For a drive.
1300
01:29:50,793 --> 01:29:55,162
" I don't know if I'm going to heaven
or hell, but I'm going from Jackson."
1301
01:29:58,200 --> 01:30:02,864
We're on record in the matter
of Mississippi v. Byron De La Beckwith.
1302
01:30:03,072 --> 01:30:05,199
Does prosecution have
its opening statement?
1303
01:30:06,709 --> 01:30:07,676
We do, Your Honor.
1304
01:30:13,916 --> 01:30:15,781
Ladies and gentlemen...
1305
01:30:15,985 --> 01:30:18,476
...this is a very simple case.
1306
01:30:20,456 --> 01:30:23,118
It's about a man whose life
was snuffed out...
1307
01:30:23,325 --> 01:30:26,692
...on June the 12th of 1963...
1308
01:30:27,296 --> 01:30:30,026
...by a bullet that tore
through his body.
1309
01:30:30,666 --> 01:30:33,601
A bullet aimed out of prejudice...
1310
01:30:33,802 --> 01:30:35,667
...propelled by hatred...
1311
01:30:35,871 --> 01:30:39,307
...and fired by
a back-shooting coward...
1312
01:30:40,442 --> 01:30:42,137
...from ambush...
1313
01:30:43,278 --> 01:30:44,370
...at night.
1314
01:30:44,913 --> 01:30:49,748
The evidence will overwhelmingly show
that Byron De La Beckwith...
1315
01:30:50,219 --> 01:30:53,655
...a self-proclaimed, rabid racist
on a lifelong mission...
1316
01:30:53,856 --> 01:30:56,654
...to purge society
of anyone and anything...
1317
01:30:56,859 --> 01:30:58,486
...that stood for integration...
1318
01:30:58,694 --> 01:31:01,219
...is the man that fired that bullet.
1319
01:31:01,797 --> 01:31:05,062
Evidence will show how, when he
thought he beat the system...
1320
01:31:05,267 --> 01:31:07,861
...he bragged about what he'd done.
1321
01:31:08,904 --> 01:31:12,271
Bragged about getting
away with murder.
1322
01:31:14,343 --> 01:31:18,473
The evidence will undeniably show that
the person who pulled the trigger...
1323
01:31:18,680 --> 01:31:22,707
...and ended the life of Medgar Evers
is this defendant...
1324
01:31:23,552 --> 01:31:25,611
...Byron De La Beckwith.
1325
01:31:30,125 --> 01:31:31,592
Mr. Coxwell?
1326
01:31:32,628 --> 01:31:34,220
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
1327
01:31:34,663 --> 01:31:38,394
My name is Merrida Coxwell.
This is James Kitchens...
1328
01:31:38,600 --> 01:31:41,831
...and we are representing
Mr. Beckwith.
1329
01:31:42,438 --> 01:31:45,168
Mr. DeLaughter started
his opening statement...
1330
01:31:45,374 --> 01:31:48,343
...by saying that this was
a very simple case.
1331
01:31:48,544 --> 01:31:50,011
I agree with him.
1332
01:31:50,279 --> 01:31:54,272
But what Mr. DeLaughter is going
to rely on is for you...
1333
01:31:54,483 --> 01:31:59,079
...to convict Mr. Beckwith
simply because of his opinions.
1334
01:31:59,688 --> 01:32:00,848
That's because...
1335
01:32:01,056 --> 01:32:05,516
...he knows that the state cannot prove
to you beyond a reasonable doubt...
1336
01:32:05,727 --> 01:32:08,287
...that the defendant committed
the crime.
1337
01:32:08,497 --> 01:32:10,829
By the time this trial is over...
1338
01:32:11,033 --> 01:32:14,696
...you will have seen it was
physically impossible...
1339
01:32:14,903 --> 01:32:17,997
...for Mr. Byron De La Beckwith
to have killed Medgar Evers.
1340
01:32:18,340 --> 01:32:20,740
Mr. Beckwith is not guilty.
1341
01:32:20,943 --> 01:32:23,275
That's what the proof will show.
1342
01:32:23,879 --> 01:32:25,107
Thank you.
1343
01:32:27,015 --> 01:32:29,006
The state may call its first witness.
1344
01:32:30,285 --> 01:32:32,776
The state calls Myrlie Evers.
1345
01:32:45,767 --> 01:32:47,132
Raise your right hand.
1346
01:32:47,336 --> 01:32:49,361
Do you swear to tell the truth...
1347
01:32:49,571 --> 01:32:52,335
-...the whole truth, so help you God?
-I do.
1348
01:32:52,608 --> 01:32:53,905
Be seated.
1349
01:33:00,149 --> 01:33:01,912
Will you tell us your name?
1350
01:33:02,484 --> 01:33:04,577
My name is Myrlie Evers.
1351
01:33:04,786 --> 01:33:07,880
Going back to 1963,
were you married at that time?
1352
01:33:08,090 --> 01:33:09,523
Yes, I was.
1353
01:33:09,725 --> 01:33:11,556
And to whom were you married?
1354
01:33:14,296 --> 01:33:16,161
Medgar Wylie...
1355
01:33:16,365 --> 01:33:17,855
...Evers.
1356
01:33:24,173 --> 01:33:27,165
When was the last time
you saw your husband alive?
1357
01:33:28,043 --> 01:33:30,739
June 11, 1963.
1358
01:33:32,414 --> 01:33:34,473
I'd fallen behind...
1359
01:33:34,683 --> 01:33:37,846
...in my housework
and got up early that morning...
1360
01:33:38,120 --> 01:33:40,611
...to iron some shirts for Medgar.
1361
01:33:41,990 --> 01:33:43,480
By the time he woke...
1362
01:33:43,692 --> 01:33:48,026
...I had 10 freshly ironed shirts
neatly hung on hangers.
1363
01:33:49,565 --> 01:33:52,830
He said, "I thank you
for ironing these shirts...
1364
01:33:53,035 --> 01:33:54,798
...but I'm not going to need them."
1365
01:33:56,238 --> 01:34:00,231
Before he left for work that morning,
he kissed us all goodbye...
1366
01:34:00,642 --> 01:34:02,542
...and then left.
1367
01:34:03,912 --> 01:34:05,504
But then he came back...
1368
01:34:05,714 --> 01:34:07,807
...and took me aside.
1369
01:34:08,217 --> 01:34:10,708
He said, "If anything
should happen to me...
1370
01:34:10,919 --> 01:34:12,978
...I want you to promise me...
1371
01:34:13,188 --> 01:34:15,884
...you will take care of my babies."
1372
01:34:16,825 --> 01:34:20,192
I said, "Of course.
They're my babies too."
1373
01:34:22,631 --> 01:34:26,226
He then kissed us all
goodbye again and left.
1374
01:34:29,238 --> 01:34:31,638
Could you tell the jury
what you remember...
1375
01:34:31,840 --> 01:34:35,799
...seeing and hearing when your husband
returned home that night?
1376
01:34:36,478 --> 01:34:40,005
It was just after midnight
when he got home.
1377
01:34:40,849 --> 01:34:42,680
We heard the car.
1378
01:34:51,126 --> 01:34:53,594
And then there was...
1379
01:34:57,933 --> 01:35:00,527
...this horrible blast.
1380
01:35:03,071 --> 01:35:04,698
The children...
1381
01:35:05,407 --> 01:35:08,638
...fell to the floor
as their father had taught them.
1382
01:35:09,645 --> 01:35:12,205
I bolted to the front door.
1383
01:35:13,582 --> 01:35:16,449
Medgar was lying in the carport.
1384
01:35:17,686 --> 01:35:20,211
He still had his keys in his hand.
1385
01:35:22,424 --> 01:35:24,790
Blood everywhere.
1386
01:35:26,528 --> 01:35:29,156
The children came out
shortly after I did...
1387
01:35:29,364 --> 01:35:31,229
...and they were screaming...
1388
01:35:32,234 --> 01:35:33,394
... "Daddy!
1389
01:35:34,436 --> 01:35:35,960
Daddy, get up!
1390
01:35:37,773 --> 01:35:39,741
Daddy, please get up."
1391
01:35:43,345 --> 01:35:46,246
But I knew he would
never get up again.
1392
01:35:51,253 --> 01:35:53,153
Nothing further, Your Honor.
1393
01:35:55,257 --> 01:36:00,320
Mr. McIntyre, have you ever owned
a 1917 Enfield.30-06 rifle?
1394
01:36:01,129 --> 01:36:02,323
Yes, I have.
1395
01:36:02,531 --> 01:36:05,261
Did you own that rifle in 1963?
1396
01:36:06,201 --> 01:36:11,002
Sometime, I believe in 1960,
I traded it to Mr. Beckwith.
1397
01:36:11,273 --> 01:36:15,334
Mr. McIntyre, I want to show you
this firearm and ask if you would...
1398
01:36:15,544 --> 01:36:18,775
...read the serial number
on the barrel, please.
1399
01:36:19,481 --> 01:36:23,417
1-0-5-2-6-8-2.
1400
01:36:23,618 --> 01:36:27,679
Thank you. Going back to exhibit 35,
would you read the serial number...
1401
01:36:27,889 --> 01:36:30,357
...on the invoice of the gun
that you purchased...
1402
01:36:30,559 --> 01:36:32,618
...and later traded to Mr. Beckwith?
1403
01:36:32,828 --> 01:36:36,491
1-0-5-2-6-8-2.
1404
01:36:36,998 --> 01:36:41,367
Ms. Holder, were you at Joe's Drive-In
on the night of June 11, 1963?
1405
01:36:41,570 --> 01:36:42,696
Yes, sir.
1406
01:36:42,904 --> 01:36:46,635
I wasn't working, but I was there
hanging out with my friends.
1407
01:36:47,142 --> 01:36:50,270
T ell the jury if there came
a time when your attention...
1408
01:36:50,479 --> 01:36:52,970
...was directed towards
any particular automobile.
1409
01:36:54,983 --> 01:36:57,713
Being a carhop, you notice cars.
1410
01:36:57,919 --> 01:37:01,082
This one had a long antenna
on the side of it.
1411
01:37:01,289 --> 01:37:03,723
We thought at first
it was a patrol car.
1412
01:37:04,359 --> 01:37:07,328
It was white and it had
a lot of mud on it.
1413
01:37:08,363 --> 01:37:10,160
It was a Plymouth Valiant.
1414
01:37:10,365 --> 01:37:15,132
Mr. Hargrove, were you employed by the
Jackson Police Department in June 1963?
1415
01:37:15,337 --> 01:37:17,066
Yes, I was.
1416
01:37:17,272 --> 01:37:21,003
In charge of the ldentification Division
for 42 years.
1417
01:37:21,209 --> 01:37:24,337
Did you reach a conclusion
as to whose fingerprint...
1418
01:37:24,546 --> 01:37:26,980
...was on the telescopic side
of the gun...
1419
01:37:27,182 --> 01:37:31,448
...recovered in your presence
on June 12, 1963?
1420
01:37:31,787 --> 01:37:33,049
Yes, sir. I did.
1421
01:37:33,255 --> 01:37:36,554
With 14 points of identification,
there's more than enough...
1422
01:37:36,758 --> 01:37:40,091
...to identify the fingerprint
of Mr. Byron De La Beckwith.
1423
01:37:40,395 --> 01:37:44,661
After four days of testimony in the
trial of white supremacist Beckwith...
1424
01:37:44,866 --> 01:37:48,267
...the prosecution, thus far, has
presented essentially the same case...
1425
01:37:48,470 --> 01:37:49,767
...as was offered up
in the two original trials.
1426
01:37:51,706 --> 01:37:54,834
However, this time there are
two significant differences.
1427
01:37:55,043 --> 01:37:57,102
First, the makeup of the jury.
1428
01:37:57,312 --> 01:38:01,442
In 1964, Beckwith faced
two all-male, all-white juries.
1429
01:38:01,650 --> 01:38:05,279
Today, he faces a jury made up
of eight blacks and four whites.
1430
01:38:05,487 --> 01:38:09,617
Tomorrow the prosecution is expected
to introduce three new witnesses...
1431
01:38:09,825 --> 01:38:12,487
... who did not testify
in the first two trials.
1432
01:38:14,663 --> 01:38:16,654
State your name for the record.
1433
01:38:16,865 --> 01:38:18,298
Delmar Dennis.
1434
01:38:18,500 --> 01:38:20,900
Mr. Dennis, in March of 1964...
1435
01:38:21,102 --> 01:38:23,229
...were you a member
of an organization known as...
1436
01:38:23,438 --> 01:38:25,338
...the White Knights
of the Ku Klux Klan?
1437
01:38:25,540 --> 01:38:26,666
I was.
1438
01:38:26,875 --> 01:38:28,399
In September of that year...
1439
01:38:28,610 --> 01:38:31,511
...did you become
a paid informant for the FBl?
1440
01:38:31,713 --> 01:38:32,975
I did.
1441
01:38:33,181 --> 01:38:35,081
And in your capacity as informant...
1442
01:38:35,283 --> 01:38:38,878
...did you ever encounter
the defendant, Byron De La Beckwith?
1443
01:38:39,588 --> 01:38:40,919
I did.
1444
01:38:41,923 --> 01:38:44,357
What were the circumstances
of that encounter?
1445
01:38:45,093 --> 01:38:48,221
On August 8, 1965,
I met Mr. Beckwith...
1446
01:38:48,430 --> 01:38:50,625
...at a Klan meeting
in Byram, Mississippi.
1447
01:38:50,899 --> 01:38:52,924
He was a featured speaker that night.
1448
01:38:53,768 --> 01:38:57,295
Now, during that talk, would you tell
the jury what, if anything...
1449
01:38:57,506 --> 01:39:02,000
...the defendant said about the murder
or shooting death of Medgar Evers.
1450
01:39:03,478 --> 01:39:06,447
He said, "Killing that nigger gave me
no more inner discomfort...
1451
01:39:06,648 --> 01:39:09,742
...than our wives endure
giving birth to our children.
1452
01:39:09,951 --> 01:39:11,851
We gotta kill those enemies...
1453
01:39:12,053 --> 01:39:15,045
...including the President,
from the top down."
1454
01:39:15,557 --> 01:39:17,047
Did he say anything else?
1455
01:39:17,359 --> 01:39:18,485
Yes, sir.
1456
01:39:18,693 --> 01:39:21,787
He said, "You're gonna get away
with it like I did."
1457
01:39:22,864 --> 01:39:24,695
Thank you, Mr. Dennis.
1458
01:39:25,033 --> 01:39:25,931
Your witness.
1459
01:39:30,238 --> 01:39:33,071
You have seen FBl reports
about your activities...
1460
01:39:33,275 --> 01:39:35,266
...as a paid informant, haven't you?
1461
01:39:35,810 --> 01:39:38,244
Mr. DeLaughter's office
furnished me with copies.
1462
01:39:38,446 --> 01:39:39,538
In fact, there are...
1463
01:39:39,748 --> 01:39:41,909
...pages and pages of dialogue...
1464
01:39:42,117 --> 01:39:44,551
...that you reported
to the FBl of things...
1465
01:39:44,819 --> 01:39:47,515
...that various people said
over lunch, over dinner...
1466
01:39:47,722 --> 01:39:51,214
...riding in cars, meetings.
Isn't that right?
1467
01:39:52,594 --> 01:39:55,620
Yet, nowhere in all those reports...
1468
01:39:55,830 --> 01:39:59,732
...does the quotation that you
attributed to Mr. Beckwith appear.
1469
01:39:59,935 --> 01:40:01,232
Does it?
1470
01:40:02,170 --> 01:40:04,570
Maybe the pages got lost
over the years.
1471
01:40:04,773 --> 01:40:06,866
And maybe they never existed.
1472
01:40:07,075 --> 01:40:08,007
Objection.
1473
01:40:08,209 --> 01:40:09,176
Sustained.
1474
01:40:09,611 --> 01:40:11,476
Dog ate my homework.
1475
01:40:12,514 --> 01:40:15,074
Mr. Dennis, did Byron De La Beckwith...
1476
01:40:15,283 --> 01:40:18,810
...ever specifically say
that he killed Medgar Evers?
1477
01:40:20,455 --> 01:40:23,356
He never said, "I killed
Medgar Evers. "That's true.
1478
01:40:23,558 --> 01:40:24,650
No further questions.
1479
01:40:24,859 --> 01:40:26,349
That's what he meant.
1480
01:40:26,561 --> 01:40:29,997
We ask that the witness's unsolicited
opinion be stricken...
1481
01:40:30,265 --> 01:40:32,495
...and that the jury disregard it.
1482
01:40:33,234 --> 01:40:37,000
The jury will disregard
Mr. Dennis' last statement.
1483
01:40:38,139 --> 01:40:42,576
I was standing out in the yard,
and he said something to me about...
1484
01:40:42,777 --> 01:40:46,213
...having been tried twice
in Mississippi...
1485
01:40:46,448 --> 01:40:48,006
...for "killing that nigger."
1486
01:40:48,216 --> 01:40:49,843
And what'd he say about that?
1487
01:40:50,051 --> 01:40:51,177
He said...
1488
01:40:52,120 --> 01:40:54,645
... "I had a job to do and I did it."
1489
01:40:55,023 --> 01:40:57,617
Thank you, Mr. Prince.
Nothing further.
1490
01:41:00,395 --> 01:41:04,331
Back in 1986, when Mr. Beckwith
allegedly made this statement to you...
1491
01:41:04,532 --> 01:41:07,524
...you went straight
to the authorities, didn't you?
1492
01:41:08,703 --> 01:41:11,228
Well, you must've told
some of your buddies.
1493
01:41:12,407 --> 01:41:15,376
You didn't tell anybody you were
renting a house from a man...
1494
01:41:15,577 --> 01:41:17,977
...who admitted to you
that he'd killed somebody?
1495
01:41:18,246 --> 01:41:20,578
I didn't at that time, no.
1496
01:41:21,182 --> 01:41:23,980
Mr. and Mrs. Beckwith had you
thrown out of the house...
1497
01:41:24,185 --> 01:41:26,483
...because you had
a drinking problem, right?
1498
01:41:30,291 --> 01:41:32,759
I had a drinking problem...
1499
01:41:33,428 --> 01:41:34,918
...but that's not why they--
1500
01:41:35,130 --> 01:41:38,930
You don't particularly like Mr. Beckwith
for throwing you out, do you?
1501
01:41:40,969 --> 01:41:42,300
Mrs. Morgan...
1502
01:41:42,504 --> 01:41:46,463
...when you lived in Greenwood,
Mississippi in the early 1970s...
1503
01:41:46,675 --> 01:41:50,611
...did you and your husband give
the defendant a ride to Parchman Prison?
1504
01:41:50,845 --> 01:41:51,777
Yes, sir.
1505
01:41:51,980 --> 01:41:55,416
Me and my husband, Lloyd, was going
to see Lloyd's brother...
1506
01:41:55,617 --> 01:41:57,016
...Jimmy Dale Morgan...
1507
01:41:57,218 --> 01:42:00,847
...and Mr. Beckwith was going to see
some friend of his...
1508
01:42:01,056 --> 01:42:03,217
...whose name he wouldn't tell us.
1509
01:42:03,558 --> 01:42:07,187
During that time, did he make
any statements concerning the murder...
1510
01:42:07,395 --> 01:42:08,862
...of Medgar Evers?
1511
01:42:09,497 --> 01:42:10,361
Yes, sir.
1512
01:42:10,565 --> 01:42:14,661
He said that he had killed
Medgar Evers, a nigger...
1513
01:42:14,869 --> 01:42:19,306
...and said we'd better not say anything
about us driving him up to Parchman...
1514
01:42:19,507 --> 01:42:22,271
...because he wasn't scared
to kill again.
1515
01:42:22,744 --> 01:42:23,938
Thank you, Mrs. Morgan.
1516
01:42:30,685 --> 01:42:33,245
You have had some
very traumatic things...
1517
01:42:33,455 --> 01:42:35,582
...happen to you in your life,
haven't you?
1518
01:42:35,924 --> 01:42:37,323
Most definitely.
1519
01:42:37,525 --> 01:42:39,152
Your estranged husband...
1520
01:42:39,360 --> 01:42:41,988
...Lloyd Morgan, was
very abusive to you.
1521
01:42:42,197 --> 01:42:44,222
Objection. Irrelevant.
1522
01:42:44,999 --> 01:42:46,933
Where are you going with this?
1523
01:42:47,135 --> 01:42:48,500
If you'll allow me...
1524
01:42:48,703 --> 01:42:52,799
...this line of questioning speaks
directly to this witness's credibility.
1525
01:42:53,508 --> 01:42:54,497
Overruled.
1526
01:42:59,881 --> 01:43:02,042
Your husband, you told us...
1527
01:43:02,250 --> 01:43:06,619
...carried on an incestuous
relationship with one of his children.
1528
01:43:07,155 --> 01:43:08,622
Yes, he did.
1529
01:43:08,823 --> 01:43:10,518
And your father...
1530
01:43:10,725 --> 01:43:13,956
...was very abusive to you
when you were a child.
1531
01:43:14,863 --> 01:43:16,160
Yes, sir.
1532
01:43:16,397 --> 01:43:17,659
And as a result...
1533
01:43:17,932 --> 01:43:19,263
...of all this...
1534
01:43:19,501 --> 01:43:22,436
...you have been diagnosed
by psychiatrists...
1535
01:43:22,637 --> 01:43:24,832
...as having an anxiety disorder.
1536
01:43:25,940 --> 01:43:27,931
Yes, sir, I have.
1537
01:43:29,611 --> 01:43:31,545
I have nothing further.
1538
01:43:32,947 --> 01:43:36,713
If this jury wants to believe
a lying drunk, a paid informant...
1539
01:43:36,918 --> 01:43:38,442
...and a damn loony bird...
1540
01:43:38,653 --> 01:43:40,644
...then I might be
in a bit of trouble.
1541
01:43:40,855 --> 01:43:42,345
But not as much trouble
as our beloved justice system.
1542
01:43:44,292 --> 01:43:47,819
And this Prince fella
still owes me $ 64 worth of rent.
1543
01:43:48,029 --> 01:43:50,862
How do you account for
the matching numbers on the gun?
1544
01:43:51,065 --> 01:43:54,523
My rifle was stolen days
before this nigger turned up dead.
1545
01:43:54,736 --> 01:43:56,397
Turn those lights off.
1546
01:43:57,405 --> 01:44:00,397
Mom, how can you stand
watching this idiot?
1547
01:44:00,608 --> 01:44:02,132
When your father died...
1548
01:44:02,343 --> 01:44:04,868
...I carried around
such hatred for that man...
1549
01:44:05,079 --> 01:44:08,344
... I actually made inquiries
into having him killed.
1550
01:44:09,217 --> 01:44:12,311
But in time, I was able
to let that hatred go.
1551
01:44:12,520 --> 01:44:13,953
I don't know how.
1552
01:44:14,155 --> 01:44:17,556
I remembered something
your father once said to me.
1553
01:44:17,759 --> 01:44:21,855
He said, "When you hate,
the only person who suffers is you.
1554
01:44:22,063 --> 01:44:23,928
Because most of the people you hate...
1555
01:44:24,132 --> 01:44:27,226
...don't know it
and the others don't care."
1556
01:44:27,635 --> 01:44:30,536
The big question here is
will Beckwith testify...
1557
01:44:30,738 --> 01:44:34,538
...as he did so confidently
back in 1964?
1558
01:44:37,378 --> 01:44:40,279
Everybody wants to see
the Byron De La Beckwith Show.
1559
01:44:40,481 --> 01:44:42,312
What if putting him on is too risky?
1560
01:44:42,517 --> 01:44:44,212
You kidding? He'll wanna tell
that cock-and-bull story...
1561
01:44:45,787 --> 01:44:48,620
...about his gun being stolen
two days before the murder.
1562
01:44:48,823 --> 01:44:52,725
Besides, this is Byron De La Beckwith
we're talking about.
1563
01:44:52,927 --> 01:44:55,293
Summoned from his mountain
by God Almighty...
1564
01:44:55,496 --> 01:44:57,964
...to give us
the word according to Delay.
1565
01:44:59,067 --> 01:45:00,295
He'll testify.
1566
01:45:00,702 --> 01:45:02,192
I'll see you upstairs.
1567
01:45:20,521 --> 01:45:23,456
Something happen to you in your boyhood
make you mean-spirited...
1568
01:45:23,658 --> 01:45:25,489
...enough to turn on your own?
1569
01:45:25,693 --> 01:45:30,255
Do what the good Lord and Mississippi
got every right to expect you to do.
1570
01:45:30,932 --> 01:45:31,762
Which is?
1571
01:45:31,966 --> 01:45:36,232
Putting niggers away for killing white
people instead of the other way around.
1572
01:45:36,437 --> 01:45:40,806
Mr. Peters and y'all should be run out
of this state for this foolishness...
1573
01:45:41,009 --> 01:45:42,601
...and y'all probably will be.
1574
01:45:43,878 --> 01:45:48,008
This is not some deer you brought down.
This is a human being.
1575
01:45:48,216 --> 01:45:52,084
A deer, Mr. DeLaughter,
is a beautiful animal.
1576
01:45:52,287 --> 01:45:53,845
It's one of God's creatures.
1577
01:45:54,055 --> 01:45:56,853
I would never kill a deer.
1578
01:45:56,991 --> 01:46:00,358
A nigger, on the other hand,
that's another matter entirely.
1579
01:46:00,728 --> 01:46:03,128
Are you standing here
admitting to me that you--
1580
01:46:03,498 --> 01:46:05,227
IKilled Medgar Evers?
1581
01:46:05,433 --> 01:46:07,094
What if I did?
1582
01:46:07,535 --> 01:46:11,027
It's not like there's anything you
nor anybody else can do about it.
1583
01:46:11,239 --> 01:46:12,331
Is there?
1584
01:46:13,207 --> 01:46:14,333
We'll see about that.
1585
01:46:14,542 --> 01:46:16,203
Oh, that we will.
1586
01:46:16,411 --> 01:46:18,038
That we will.
1587
01:46:20,048 --> 01:46:22,812
You know, it only takes
but one of them, doesn't it?
1588
01:46:23,251 --> 01:46:24,878
The question is...
1589
01:46:25,086 --> 01:46:26,383
...which one will it be?
1590
01:46:27,121 --> 01:46:29,954
Maybe that chubby white gal
who'd be sorely vexed...
1591
01:46:30,158 --> 01:46:34,561
...to let one of her own kind be
put away, no matter what she told you.
1592
01:46:34,996 --> 01:46:36,827
Or maybe that old nigger minister...
1593
01:46:37,031 --> 01:46:41,263
...who won't want sending a sick
old man to prison on his conscience.
1594
01:46:41,669 --> 01:46:46,606
You ain't never gonna get 12 people
to convict me of killing a nigger...
1595
01:46:46,841 --> 01:46:48,809
...in the state of Mississippi.
1596
01:46:49,010 --> 01:46:52,138
No, sir. Hell, I don't even have
to take the stand.
1597
01:46:52,347 --> 01:46:56,044
Couple more days, I'll be heading back
to my home in T ennessee...
1598
01:46:56,317 --> 01:46:58,251
...where I will sit on my porch...
1599
01:46:58,453 --> 01:47:02,184
...and live out my days
in peace and prosperity.
1600
01:47:02,857 --> 01:47:04,552
What are you gonna do?
1601
01:47:07,962 --> 01:47:09,657
What are you gonna do?
1602
01:47:10,164 --> 01:47:12,655
" Free at last, free at last.
1603
01:47:12,867 --> 01:47:15,836
Great God Almighty, I'm free at last!"
1604
01:47:19,674 --> 01:47:21,608
The defense calls James Holley.
1605
01:47:24,712 --> 01:47:26,737
Relax. He's just needling you.
1606
01:47:28,149 --> 01:47:28,547
He'll testify.
1607
01:47:31,252 --> 01:47:32,685
Raise your right hand.
1608
01:47:32,887 --> 01:47:37,119
You swear the testimony you'll give
is the whole truth, so help you God?
1609
01:47:37,325 --> 01:47:39,293
-I do.
-Be seated.
1610
01:47:41,629 --> 01:47:46,089
Mr. Holley, did you have a personal
relationship with the defendant?
1611
01:47:46,300 --> 01:47:50,066
No, sir. None whatsoever.
I just kind of knew who he was.
1612
01:47:50,271 --> 01:47:53,365
Mr. Holley, in the early morning
of June 12th, 1963...
1613
01:47:53,574 --> 01:47:56,008
...did you have occasion
to see Mr. Beckwith?
1614
01:47:56,911 --> 01:47:59,175
He was standing outside
at a Shell station...
1615
01:47:59,380 --> 01:48:01,905
...while the attendant was
putting gas in his car.
1616
01:48:02,216 --> 01:48:04,377
T ell the jury what time
you saw him.
1617
01:48:05,053 --> 01:48:07,681
At approximately 1:03 in the morning.
1618
01:48:08,423 --> 01:48:11,722
About how many miles is it
from Greenwood to Jackson?
1619
01:48:12,226 --> 01:48:16,253
Must be around 90, 95 miles.
1620
01:48:16,464 --> 01:48:19,922
So you saw the defendant
less than an hour after the murder...
1621
01:48:20,134 --> 01:48:24,833
...calmly standing by his car some 95
miles away from the scene of the crime?
1622
01:48:27,642 --> 01:48:29,439
I have nothing further.
1623
01:48:34,482 --> 01:48:35,608
Mr. Holley...
1624
01:48:35,817 --> 01:48:38,251
...on the night you say you saw...
1625
01:48:38,486 --> 01:48:41,250
...Byron De La Beckwith
in Greenwood....
1626
01:48:41,656 --> 01:48:44,454
Delay, as you call him, I believe.
Is that right?
1627
01:48:44,659 --> 01:48:46,058
Delay Beckwith, yes, sir.
1628
01:48:46,260 --> 01:48:49,752
Why do you call him Delay?
Are y'all first-name buddies?
1629
01:48:49,964 --> 01:48:53,491
No, sir. I call him Mr. Beckwith
most of the time.
1630
01:48:55,103 --> 01:48:56,127
We just noted...
1631
01:48:56,337 --> 01:48:58,737
... "Delay's car"
and "Delay and the attendant."
1632
01:48:58,940 --> 01:49:02,137
Isn't that exactly what you told
me and my investigators...
1633
01:49:02,343 --> 01:49:04,937
...when we asked what you were
doing that night?
1634
01:49:06,347 --> 01:49:07,678
"Delay."
1635
01:49:08,349 --> 01:49:09,611
Your buddy.
1636
01:49:09,817 --> 01:49:11,341
My friend.
1637
01:49:11,953 --> 01:49:14,353
And how long has he been your friend?
1638
01:49:15,623 --> 01:49:18,524
-Just shortly after World War ll.
-When you said...
1639
01:49:18,726 --> 01:49:22,924
...you had no personal relationship
with him, that wasn't entirely true.
1640
01:49:23,131 --> 01:49:27,033
You've known him a long time and been
friends a long time, right?
1641
01:49:27,235 --> 01:49:29,328
Well, sure, we're friends.
1642
01:49:29,537 --> 01:49:31,698
Just like I hope
you and I are friends.
1643
01:49:33,975 --> 01:49:34,805
Pardon?
1644
01:49:35,042 --> 01:49:38,239
I said just like I would hope
you and I are friends.
1645
01:49:39,580 --> 01:49:41,047
I'm flattered.
1646
01:49:43,618 --> 01:49:45,176
Let me ask you this.
1647
01:49:45,753 --> 01:49:47,846
At the time the defendant
was arrested...
1648
01:49:48,055 --> 01:49:50,717
...there were a whole lot
of law enforcement people...
1649
01:49:50,925 --> 01:49:53,393
...trying to gather
information, am I right?
1650
01:49:53,594 --> 01:49:55,323
FBl, Jackson Police.
1651
01:49:55,530 --> 01:49:56,895
Do you remember that?
1652
01:49:57,431 --> 01:49:58,523
Did you speak to...
1653
01:49:58,733 --> 01:50:01,395
...Detective Sanders,
one of the investigators?
1654
01:50:01,936 --> 01:50:03,733
I might've spoken a word with him.
1655
01:50:04,005 --> 01:50:08,408
Then you told him you saw Beckwith
in Greenwood the night of the killing.
1656
01:50:08,609 --> 01:50:10,042
-ls that right?
-I did not.
1657
01:50:11,445 --> 01:50:12,377
Why not?
1658
01:50:12,713 --> 01:50:14,806
I had no reason to tell
unless he asked.
1659
01:50:15,016 --> 01:50:19,180
You had no reason, as a sworn police
officer, to tell an investigator...
1660
01:50:19,387 --> 01:50:20,911
...in an important murder case...
1661
01:50:21,122 --> 01:50:25,525
...that you knew the suspect was 90
miles away at the time of the murder?
1662
01:50:25,726 --> 01:50:28,354
I'd have been butting
into his investigation--
1663
01:50:28,563 --> 01:50:32,363
You'd have been "butting into his
investigation "by telling him an alibi?
1664
01:50:32,967 --> 01:50:34,195
Sure.
1665
01:50:35,803 --> 01:50:38,966
Did you ever go to the D.A.
and tell them what was going on?
1666
01:50:39,774 --> 01:50:42,208
Did you tell the FBl
what was going on?
1667
01:50:43,110 --> 01:50:46,978
The only person you spoke to
about this case was Hardy Lott...
1668
01:50:47,181 --> 01:50:48,773
...Mr. Beckwith's defense attorney.
1669
01:50:48,983 --> 01:50:51,417
-When he called me--
-How long was...
1670
01:50:51,619 --> 01:50:54,588
...the defendant in jail by then?
A couple of weeks?
1671
01:50:55,790 --> 01:50:57,382
I don't remember, exactly.
1672
01:50:58,693 --> 01:51:00,558
Well, let me help you out.
1673
01:51:01,195 --> 01:51:04,130
It was over eight months.
1674
01:51:04,565 --> 01:51:06,260
Eight months.
1675
01:51:06,467 --> 01:51:09,527
You let your buddy sit in jail
all that time...
1676
01:51:09,737 --> 01:51:12,934
...and never once told anyone,
"You've got the wrong guy."
1677
01:51:13,140 --> 01:51:15,267
You're asking this jury
to believe that?
1678
01:51:16,177 --> 01:51:17,405
Yes, sir.
1679
01:51:21,048 --> 01:51:24,848
Earlier in your testimony, you said
that you and I are friends, right?
1680
01:51:25,286 --> 01:51:26,116
Said what?
1681
01:51:26,354 --> 01:51:29,255
That we're friends.
You and I are friends.
1682
01:51:31,492 --> 01:51:33,460
You still think we're friends?
1683
01:51:34,662 --> 01:51:35,856
Sure.
1684
01:51:37,765 --> 01:51:40,290
As my friend, if I ever go
to jail for murder...
1685
01:51:40,501 --> 01:51:42,401
...don't leave me there
for eight months...
1686
01:51:42,603 --> 01:51:45,071
...if you know where I was
when the murder took place.
1687
01:51:45,273 --> 01:51:46,103
Objection!
1688
01:51:46,440 --> 01:51:47,805
That was a thing of beauty.
1689
01:51:48,009 --> 01:51:49,135
Nothing further.
1690
01:51:49,343 --> 01:51:50,605
Will you redirect?
1691
01:51:50,811 --> 01:51:52,438
Thank you, Your Honor.
1692
01:51:53,814 --> 01:51:55,441
Would you lie for Mr. Beckwith?
1693
01:51:56,350 --> 01:51:57,749
Did he ask you to?
1694
01:51:57,985 --> 01:52:01,477
As a former police officer,
you know perjury is a serious crime.
1695
01:52:02,423 --> 01:52:04,516
I'm gonna ask you this one last time.
1696
01:52:04,725 --> 01:52:07,159
On the night that Medgar Evers
was killed...
1697
01:52:07,361 --> 01:52:11,889
...did you or did you not see
Beckwith some 95 miles away...
1698
01:52:12,099 --> 01:52:13,862
...from where the murder took place?
1699
01:52:15,603 --> 01:52:16,695
I saw him.
1700
01:52:16,904 --> 01:52:19,566
As God is your judge.
1701
01:52:20,975 --> 01:52:23,170
As God is my judge.
1702
01:52:24,045 --> 01:52:26,980
Thank you, Mr. Holley.
We have nothing further.
1703
01:52:30,251 --> 01:52:31,718
No further questions.
1704
01:52:33,054 --> 01:52:34,021
You may step down.
1705
01:52:37,958 --> 01:52:40,392
Is the defense prepared to call
its next witness?
1706
01:52:50,771 --> 01:52:51,965
Your Honor...
1707
01:52:52,306 --> 01:52:54,433
...the defense rests.
1708
01:52:55,910 --> 01:52:57,571
-What?
-Damn!
1709
01:52:58,879 --> 01:52:59,868
Quiet.
1710
01:53:01,582 --> 01:53:02,514
Ladies and gentlemen.
1711
01:53:02,850 --> 01:53:05,614
Quiet or I'll order the bailiff
to clear the courtroom.
1712
01:53:05,820 --> 01:53:08,015
Coward to the end.
1713
01:53:12,326 --> 01:53:13,987
To my knowledge...
1714
01:53:14,195 --> 01:53:16,891
...this jury is being asked
to look further...
1715
01:53:17,098 --> 01:53:20,124
...into the past than any jury...
1716
01:53:20,835 --> 01:53:24,168
...in the history
of American jurisprudence.
1717
01:53:24,605 --> 01:53:28,974
That places you folks
at a considerable disadvantage.
1718
01:53:29,577 --> 01:53:32,546
Evidence has been lost.
1719
01:53:33,414 --> 01:53:35,473
They don't have the bullet.
1720
01:53:35,850 --> 01:53:40,150
They don't have the spent cartridge
case that was found in the gun.
1721
01:53:40,354 --> 01:53:44,347
They don't have the live ammunition
that was found in the gun.
1722
01:53:44,692 --> 01:53:46,216
Where is it?
1723
01:53:47,294 --> 01:53:48,955
Nobody knows.
1724
01:53:49,864 --> 01:53:52,389
Does this create reasonable doubt?
1725
01:53:52,700 --> 01:53:54,463
Of course it does.
1726
01:53:55,302 --> 01:53:58,328
And you have heard a number
of witnesses testify...
1727
01:53:58,539 --> 01:54:01,940
...that years after the crime,
Mr. Beckwith said this...
1728
01:54:02,143 --> 01:54:04,134
...or Mr. Beckwith said that.
1729
01:54:04,412 --> 01:54:08,781
But the defense has presented you
with an eyewitness.
1730
01:54:08,983 --> 01:54:11,679
A sworn officer of the law...
1731
01:54:11,886 --> 01:54:16,255
...who has testified under oath
that he saw the defendant...
1732
01:54:16,457 --> 01:54:21,019
...in Greenwood, Mississippi,
over 90 miles from Jackson...
1733
01:54:21,228 --> 01:54:24,163
...Iess than an hour after the murder.
1734
01:54:25,766 --> 01:54:28,064
Does that create reasonable doubt?
1735
01:54:28,903 --> 01:54:30,530
You bet it does.
1736
01:54:31,238 --> 01:54:35,140
And reasonable doubt
means one thing...
1737
01:54:35,409 --> 01:54:37,240
...and one thing only.
1738
01:54:37,845 --> 01:54:39,244
By law...
1739
01:54:39,513 --> 01:54:43,176
...you must render
a not guilty verdict.
1740
01:54:43,984 --> 01:54:47,385
Forget that it's Byron "Delay" Beckwith.
1741
01:54:47,855 --> 01:54:51,313
Forget that you may not like him,
that you...
1742
01:54:51,525 --> 01:54:53,686
...may not agree with him.
1743
01:54:54,762 --> 01:54:56,593
Judge the evidence...
1744
01:54:57,231 --> 01:54:59,199
...and judge it fairly.
1745
01:55:00,201 --> 01:55:01,566
Because...
1746
01:55:01,769 --> 01:55:04,033
...in the United States...
1747
01:55:04,438 --> 01:55:08,704
...we don't do that for people
we just like and admire.
1748
01:55:09,877 --> 01:55:12,175
We do that for everybody...
1749
01:55:12,379 --> 01:55:13,744
...that's on trial...
1750
01:55:13,948 --> 01:55:16,246
...in an American court of law.
1751
01:55:16,984 --> 01:55:20,044
Because if the system doesn't work...
1752
01:55:20,254 --> 01:55:22,245
...for Byron De La Beckwith...
1753
01:55:22,456 --> 01:55:23,480
...it doesn't work...
1754
01:55:23,991 --> 01:55:25,618
...for anyone.
1755
01:55:26,360 --> 01:55:30,353
I ask you to let the system work...
1756
01:55:31,899 --> 01:55:33,958
...and once and for all...
1757
01:55:34,301 --> 01:55:36,132
...find the defendant...
1758
01:55:36,470 --> 01:55:39,906
...Byron De La Beckwith,
not guilty.
1759
01:55:42,676 --> 01:55:44,143
Thank you.
1760
01:55:58,759 --> 01:56:00,750
An unarmed man...
1761
01:56:01,262 --> 01:56:04,561
...arrives home in the late hours
of the night...
1762
01:56:04,765 --> 01:56:07,563
...home to his family, his wife...
1763
01:56:07,768 --> 01:56:09,759
...and three small children...
1764
01:56:10,504 --> 01:56:12,597
...gets out of his car...
1765
01:56:13,173 --> 01:56:15,334
...and with his back turned...
1766
01:56:15,676 --> 01:56:18,167
...is gunned down by a coward.
1767
01:56:20,114 --> 01:56:21,979
That coward is...
1768
01:56:22,182 --> 01:56:23,774
...Byron De La Beckwith.
1769
01:56:24,952 --> 01:56:26,351
His gun.
1770
01:56:26,787 --> 01:56:28,152
His scope.
1771
01:56:28,355 --> 01:56:29,754
His fingerprint.
1772
01:56:29,957 --> 01:56:31,254
His car.
1773
01:56:31,458 --> 01:56:35,588
And lastly, but certainly not least,
his mouth.
1774
01:56:36,797 --> 01:56:38,662
When he thought he got away with it...
1775
01:56:38,866 --> 01:56:42,495
...he couldn't keep his mouth shut
with people he wanted to impress.
1776
01:56:42,703 --> 01:56:45,695
And now his venom has come back
to do him in...
1777
01:56:45,906 --> 01:56:47,533
...because, ladies and gentlemen...
1778
01:56:47,741 --> 01:56:51,233
...there is no statute
of limitations on murder.
1779
01:56:51,812 --> 01:56:54,440
The law doesn't say
that if you killed someone...
1780
01:56:54,648 --> 01:56:56,513
... 10 years ago or 20 years ago...
1781
01:56:56,717 --> 01:57:00,778
...or even 30 years ago,
that you don't have to pay the price.
1782
01:57:00,988 --> 01:57:04,947
The law doesn't say that if you are
50 years old or 60 years old...
1783
01:57:05,159 --> 01:57:09,118
...or 70 years old,
that you don't have to pay the price.
1784
01:57:09,330 --> 01:57:10,991
No man...
1785
01:57:11,832 --> 01:57:13,629
...is above the law.
1786
01:57:16,437 --> 01:57:18,200
And for what reason...
1787
01:57:18,405 --> 01:57:20,305
...was Medgar Evers' life taken?
1788
01:57:20,507 --> 01:57:24,807
For wanting some degree
of equality for himself...
1789
01:57:25,012 --> 01:57:27,378
...his family and his fellow man.
1790
01:57:27,581 --> 01:57:31,677
Ladies and gentlemen,
when that kind of murder happens...
1791
01:57:32,086 --> 01:57:34,350
...no matter who the victim...
1792
01:57:34,755 --> 01:57:37,053
...no matter what his race...
1793
01:57:37,257 --> 01:57:39,657
...there is a gaping wound...
1794
01:57:39,860 --> 01:57:43,193
...Iaid open on society as a whole.
1795
01:57:45,199 --> 01:57:46,598
Justice...
1796
01:57:47,201 --> 01:57:49,192
...has sometimes been referred to...
1797
01:57:49,403 --> 01:57:51,371
...as the soothing balm
to be applied...
1798
01:57:51,572 --> 01:57:54,132
...to the wounds inflicted on society.
1799
01:57:54,341 --> 01:57:56,138
But when there is no justice...
1800
01:57:56,343 --> 01:57:59,608
...those wounds can never be cleansed.
1801
01:58:00,547 --> 01:58:03,778
Those wounds can never be healed.
1802
01:58:06,453 --> 01:58:08,887
When I addressed you
in my opening statement...
1803
01:58:09,089 --> 01:58:11,956
...I said that this was a simple case.
1804
01:58:12,159 --> 01:58:14,719
Well, I was right and I was wrong.
1805
01:58:15,062 --> 01:58:17,087
The evidence is simple...
1806
01:58:17,297 --> 01:58:19,356
...and the conclusion is
more than obvious.
1807
01:58:19,566 --> 01:58:21,158
But the reason we are all...
1808
01:58:21,368 --> 01:58:23,996
...sitting in this courtroom
so many years after...
1809
01:58:24,204 --> 01:58:26,900
...this disgraceful
assassination took place...
1810
01:58:27,141 --> 01:58:29,803
...is anything but simple.
1811
01:58:32,146 --> 01:58:34,114
President John F. Kennedy...
1812
01:58:34,314 --> 01:58:37,147
...in his landmark civil rights speech
to the nation...
1813
01:58:37,351 --> 01:58:41,720
...delivered on the very night
Medgar Evers was murdered, said...
1814
01:58:41,922 --> 01:58:45,653
... "We face a moral crisis
as a country...
1815
01:58:45,926 --> 01:58:47,416
...and as a people.
1816
01:58:48,328 --> 01:58:52,059
Those who do nothing are
inviting shame...
1817
01:58:52,266 --> 01:58:54,427
...as well as violence.
1818
01:58:54,735 --> 01:58:58,967
Those who act boldly are
recognizing right...
1819
01:58:59,740 --> 01:59:02,231
...as well as reality."
1820
01:59:03,510 --> 01:59:06,673
Today, 30 years later...
1821
01:59:07,014 --> 01:59:09,346
...on behalf of the state
of Mississippi...
1822
01:59:09,550 --> 01:59:14,351
...I'm asking you 12 ladies
and gentlemen to act boldly.
1823
01:59:14,621 --> 01:59:18,580
To hold this defendant accountable
and find him guilty...
1824
01:59:18,792 --> 01:59:20,817
...simply because it is right...
1825
01:59:21,028 --> 01:59:22,325
...it is just...
1826
01:59:22,529 --> 01:59:25,623
...and Lord knows, it is time.
1827
01:59:29,203 --> 01:59:30,534
Is it ever...
1828
01:59:31,105 --> 01:59:33,835
...too late to do the right thing?
1829
01:59:36,310 --> 01:59:38,608
For the sake of justice...
1830
01:59:38,812 --> 01:59:42,873
...and for the hope of us
as a civilized society...
1831
01:59:43,984 --> 01:59:47,784
...I sincerely pray that it is not.
1832
01:59:51,191 --> 01:59:52,180
Thank you.
1833
01:59:54,828 --> 01:59:56,659
How long do you think they'll be out?
1834
01:59:56,997 --> 02:00:00,524
All I know is a short time is good
and a long time is...
1835
02:00:00,934 --> 02:00:01,832
...not so good.
1836
02:00:02,336 --> 02:00:04,270
Then I'll pray for a short time.
1837
02:00:06,406 --> 02:00:09,239
This reminds me of Medgar's office
on Lynch Street.
1838
02:00:09,443 --> 02:00:12,207
You know, I used to be
Medgar's secretary.
1839
02:00:13,313 --> 02:00:15,611
He insisted that we behave
in the office...
1840
02:00:15,816 --> 02:00:18,717
...strictly as employer-employee.
1841
02:00:18,919 --> 02:00:22,480
He'd call me Mrs. Evers,
and I'd have to call him Mr. Evers.
1842
02:00:22,689 --> 02:00:24,156
Is that right?
1843
02:00:24,591 --> 02:00:26,718
Everybody thought he was crazy.
1844
02:00:26,927 --> 02:00:30,226
But he was just so determined
to do a good job.
1845
02:00:33,934 --> 02:00:35,663
You remind me of Medgar.
1846
02:00:41,108 --> 02:00:42,541
Thank you, ma'am.
1847
02:00:43,710 --> 02:00:45,701
Would you like a cup of coffee?
1848
02:00:45,946 --> 02:00:47,140
No, thanks.
1849
02:00:49,316 --> 02:00:53,116
As many trials as I've been through
and I can never take the waiting.
1850
02:00:53,554 --> 02:00:54,646
Wanna go for a walk?
1851
02:00:55,055 --> 02:00:58,149
No, you go ahead. I've gotten
pretty good at waiting.
1852
02:01:17,811 --> 02:01:19,278
That Judge Hilburn...
1853
02:01:19,479 --> 02:01:21,174
...he don't have a lot of patience.
1854
02:01:21,381 --> 02:01:24,145
That jury ain't back with a verdict
in a few hours...
1855
02:01:24,351 --> 02:01:25,716
...he'll declare a mistrial.
1856
02:01:25,919 --> 02:01:27,682
I'm not sure I got that.
1857
02:01:27,888 --> 02:01:30,721
Would you mind repeating that,
please?
1858
02:01:30,924 --> 02:01:32,687
You did say mistrial, didn't you?
1859
02:01:32,893 --> 02:01:34,121
I'm gonna snooch you.
1860
02:01:50,210 --> 02:01:51,438
All rise.
1861
02:02:10,230 --> 02:02:12,164
When the verdict is read...
1862
02:02:12,366 --> 02:02:14,732
...there will be no demonstrations...
1863
02:02:14,935 --> 02:02:17,927
...or any emotional outbursts
of any type.
1864
02:02:43,230 --> 02:02:45,425
Has the jury reached a verdict?
1865
02:02:46,133 --> 02:02:47,464
It has, Your Honor.
1866
02:02:47,668 --> 02:02:49,602
If the bailiff will hand me
the verdict.
1867
02:03:13,860 --> 02:03:17,455
I'll ask the jury at this time
to stand and face the defendant.
1868
02:03:21,635 --> 02:03:23,535
The defendant will face the jury.
1869
02:03:31,778 --> 02:03:34,246
The jury foreman will now
read the verdict.
1870
02:03:36,350 --> 02:03:37,578
We the jury...
1871
02:03:37,784 --> 02:03:39,183
...find the defendant...
1872
02:03:39,386 --> 02:03:43,516
...Byron De La Beckwith,
guilty as charged.
1873
02:03:51,365 --> 02:03:53,026
-Quiet in this courtroom.
-Guilty.
1874
02:04:26,933 --> 02:04:30,130
Mrs. Evers, how did you feel
when the verdict came in?
1875
02:04:52,359 --> 02:04:55,851
It's been a long journey.
1876
02:04:59,066 --> 02:05:02,229
Medgar, I've gone the last mile
of the way.
1877
02:05:03,737 --> 02:05:06,797
I've gone the last mile of the way.
1878
02:05:09,209 --> 02:05:11,200
And all I want to say...
1879
02:05:11,778 --> 02:05:13,939
...is yea, Medgar!
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