Assassination of Medgar Evers
- mary5537
- Aug 25
- 1 min read

Medgar Evers, field secretary for the NAACP, shot to death by a sniper around 12:30 am, Evers' family were awake after watching JFK's speech announcing the Civil Rights Bill. Byron De La Beckwith, the shooter, would not be convicted until 1994.



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