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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...
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00:17:07,166 --> 00:17:09,849
...because her husband ran around
with Marilyn Monroe?
243
00:17:10,077 --> 00:17:11,157
What's your point?
244
00:17:11,358 --> 00:17:14,292
The murder of Medgar Evers
was a race crime...
245
00:17:14,493 --> 00:17:16,435
...a political crime.
An assassination.
246
00:17:16,796 --> 00:17:18,684
Beckwith is free today...
247
00:17:18,877 --> 00:17:21,298
...thanks to a racist jury,
a racist police department...
248
00:17:21,500 --> 00:17:23,573
...and a racist D.A.'s office.
249
00:17:23,772 --> 00:17:26,139
Twenty-five years ago,
Waller and this office...
250
00:17:26,331 --> 00:17:28,371
...went after Beckwith
not once but twice.
251
00:17:28,572 --> 00:17:30,546
I don't need to sit here and listen--
252
00:17:31,227 --> 00:17:34,358
Twenty-five years ago,
I sat on the witness stand...
253
00:17:34,556 --> 00:17:37,654
...and I watched as the former
governor of this state...
254
00:17:37,851 --> 00:17:40,884
...shook hands with the man
who murdered my husband...
255
00:17:41,659 --> 00:17:43,284
...while I was on the stand.
256
00:17:46,234 --> 00:17:48,056
I don't expect you to understand...
257
00:17:48,251 --> 00:17:50,585
...the pain and suffering
my family went through...
258
00:17:50,779 --> 00:17:52,371
...but I did come here thinking...
259
00:17:52,570 --> 00:17:56,115
...that this office might want
to see justice finally served.
260
00:17:59,098 --> 00:18:02,393
You've given me all the reasons
why you can't pursue this.
261
00:18:02,586 --> 00:18:05,585
Perhaps you can find
one reason why you can.
262
00:18:06,201 --> 00:18:07,924
Good afternoon, gentlemen.
263
00:18:27,032 --> 00:18:28,460
Ed Peters is a good man...
264
00:18:28,664 --> 00:18:31,151
...but as you can see,
we simply don't have a case.
265
00:18:31,350 --> 00:18:35,027
I know you've been living
with this thing for a long while...
266
00:18:35,991 --> 00:18:38,063
...but maybe it's just time you....
267
00:18:39,094 --> 00:18:40,305
Let it go?
268
00:18:40,854 --> 00:18:43,603
I can understand why you'd
think that, Mr. DeLaughter.
269
00:18:43,798 --> 00:18:46,067
For years, I said
the same thing to Medgar.
270
00:18:46,261 --> 00:18:48,880
"Let it go.
Let's get out of Mississippi."
271
00:18:49,366 --> 00:18:51,089
Do you know what he said to me?
272
00:18:51,669 --> 00:18:54,058
" I don't know if I'm going
to heaven or to hell...
273
00:18:54,261 --> 00:18:56,301
...but I'm going from Jackson."
274
00:18:56,885 --> 00:18:58,608
Good afternoon, Mr. DeLaughter.
275
00:19:30,034 --> 00:19:31,823
Hey, everybody, I'm home.
276
00:19:39,890 --> 00:19:41,034
Hey, tiger.
277
00:19:41,681 --> 00:19:42,858
Hi, Dad.
278
00:19:43,761 --> 00:19:47,503
You sure you got enough distractions?
I can go get your Game Boy.
279
00:19:48,081 --> 00:19:49,161
Dad.
280
00:19:49,361 --> 00:19:50,538
Hi, Daddy.
281
00:19:50,961 --> 00:19:51,855
Hi, Dad.
282
00:19:52,048 --> 00:19:55,943
-Did you bring me a lollipop?
-I did. I got one for Claire too.
283
00:19:56,144 --> 00:19:58,991
-Thanks, Daddy.
-How was school today, sweetie?
284
00:19:59,184 --> 00:20:01,388
Did Miss Collins like
the bracelet you made?
285
00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:03,338
Daddy, tell us a story.
286
00:20:04,015 --> 00:20:06,764
-A real scary one.
-Claire, you want to hear a story?
287
00:20:06,959 --> 00:20:08,847
Okay, but not too scary.
288
00:20:09,039 --> 00:20:12,585
Let's go to Mommy and Daddy's room,
because we don't wanna disturb Burt.
289
00:20:15,823 --> 00:20:19,205
-You want something to eat?
-No, I got something at the office.
290
00:20:20,974 --> 00:20:22,633
Thanks for letting me know.
291
00:21:03,659 --> 00:21:05,153
Honey, what are you doing up?
292
00:21:05,354 --> 00:21:06,761
I can't sleep.
293
00:21:06,955 --> 00:21:08,548
The ghost is back.
294
00:21:08,938 --> 00:21:10,945
I'll go. I'll go.
295
00:21:12,042 --> 00:21:14,824
The ghost is back?
Where is he this time?
296
00:21:15,018 --> 00:21:15,945
In my bed.
297
00:21:16,138 --> 00:21:19,105
Really? We'll just have
to see about that.
298
00:21:22,377 --> 00:21:25,094
You were right.
He's right there on the bed.
299
00:21:25,769 --> 00:21:26,816
No, Daddy.
300
00:21:27,016 --> 00:21:29,089
Now he's over by the window.
301
00:21:31,401 --> 00:21:32,611
I see.
302
00:21:34,185 --> 00:21:36,388
Your bottle tree was
supposed to keep him away.
303
00:21:36,713 --> 00:21:39,266
Maybe I don't have
the right kind of bottles.
304
00:21:39,592 --> 00:21:40,934
You know, baby...
305
00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:44,294
...when we lived in Natchez,
there was a ghost...
306
00:21:44,488 --> 00:21:46,015
...that lived right next door...
307
00:21:46,215 --> 00:21:49,215
...in the remains of this house
that got burned during the war.
308
00:21:49,671 --> 00:21:53,380
And sometimes he'd come over
and get right in my closet.
309
00:21:53,671 --> 00:21:54,816
How'd you make him go away?
310
00:21:55,175 --> 00:21:57,476
Granny would come in
and sing a song...
311
00:21:57,671 --> 00:21:59,612
...and before you knew it,
he was gone.
312
00:22:00,326 --> 00:22:01,820
What'd she sing?
313
00:22:02,246 --> 00:22:04,995
She sang the song every ghost
from Mississippi loves.
314
00:22:05,478 --> 00:22:06,525
Sing it, Daddy.
315
00:22:07,014 --> 00:22:08,126
All right.
316
00:22:09,446 --> 00:22:12,445
I wish I was in the land of cotton
317
00:22:12,645 --> 00:22:14,783
Old times there are not forgotten
318
00:22:14,981 --> 00:22:16,225
Look away
319
00:22:16,517 --> 00:22:17,793
Look away
320
00:22:18,053 --> 00:22:21,216
Look away, Dixieland
321
00:22:21,412 --> 00:22:23,649
In Dixieland where I was born
322
00:22:23,972 --> 00:22:26,493
Early on one frosty morn'
323
00:22:26,820 --> 00:22:29,341
Look away, look away
324
00:22:29,540 --> 00:22:32,540
Look away, Dixieland
325
00:22:33,092 --> 00:22:35,231
Oh, I wish I was in Dixie
326
00:22:35,427 --> 00:22:38,077
Hooray, hooray
327
00:22:38,275 --> 00:22:40,861
In Dixieland I'll take my stand
328
00:22:41,059 --> 00:22:43,906
To live and die in Dixie
329
00:22:44,099 --> 00:22:46,106
Away, away
330
00:22:46,371 --> 00:22:48,858
Away down South
331
00:22:49,282 --> 00:22:51,038
In Dixie
332
00:22:54,882 --> 00:22:57,118
I'd ask what's new,
but I'm afraid you'd tell me.
333
00:22:57,313 --> 00:22:59,768
My readers are on the edge
of their collective seat.
334
00:23:01,089 --> 00:23:02,496
Will Mr. DeLaughter go after
Byron De La Beckwith?
335
00:23:02,689 --> 00:23:06,912
The D.A.'s office will investigate
the possibility of reopening the case.
336
00:23:07,104 --> 00:23:10,333
I didn't go to law school,
but that sounds like bullshit.
337
00:23:10,529 --> 00:23:11,544
Nice talking to you.
338
00:23:11,745 --> 00:23:13,174
Have a nice day.
339
00:23:33,855 --> 00:23:37,149
Can you tell me how I can get
ahold of Lewis Skinner...
340
00:23:37,342 --> 00:23:38,390
...or Fred Sanders?
341
00:23:38,590 --> 00:23:42,648
If you want Lewis Skinner, you'll need
a shovel and six hours of digging time.
342
00:23:43,038 --> 00:23:44,118
What's Fred's status?
343
00:23:44,318 --> 00:23:46,936
As far as I know,
he's still aboveground.
344
00:23:48,510 --> 00:23:50,931
Back in '63,
none of those houses were there.
345
00:23:51,134 --> 00:23:53,043
That was all vacant lot.
346
00:23:53,245 --> 00:23:56,060
And this here was
all covered over with brush.
347
00:23:56,285 --> 00:23:59,219
I got out here eight minutes
after the call came in.
348
00:23:59,421 --> 00:24:03,479
The way Mrs. Evers yelled at me,
you'd think I was the one who done it.
349
00:24:04,636 --> 00:24:08,695
This is where they found the gun,
hidden in some honeysuckle vines.
350
00:24:09,147 --> 00:24:11,122
Any idea where
that gun might be today?
351
00:24:11,323 --> 00:24:12,338
Hell, no.
352
00:24:12,539 --> 00:24:13,586
Back in those days...
353
00:24:13,788 --> 00:24:17,235
...evidence had a habit
of disappearing after the trials.
354
00:24:17,691 --> 00:24:18,771
Look at that.
355
00:24:18,971 --> 00:24:21,971
My grandmother could have
picked Evers off from over here.
356
00:24:22,171 --> 00:24:23,994
That's where he was shot.
357
00:24:24,187 --> 00:24:26,609
That big tree wasn't there
at the time.
358
00:24:26,938 --> 00:24:28,400
There was blood everywhere.
359
00:24:28,602 --> 00:24:31,384
All over the driveway,
all over the car.
360
00:24:31,578 --> 00:24:33,847
It was as if somebody
had butchered a hog.
361
00:24:34,074 --> 00:24:38,613
But Evers must've been one hell of a
strong man because somehow he managed...
362
00:24:38,809 --> 00:24:41,046
...to drag himself
all the way up to his door.
363
00:24:41,370 --> 00:24:45,199
After that bullet tore through his back,
it slammed through that window...
364
00:24:45,401 --> 00:24:46,808
...crashed through a wall...
365
00:24:47,001 --> 00:24:50,710
...ricocheted off the refrigerator
and busted the coffeepot.
366
00:24:50,905 --> 00:24:54,833
We found it on the kitchen counter
next to a watermelon.
367
00:24:56,120 --> 00:24:57,168
You're kidding me.
368
00:24:57,560 --> 00:24:58,738
No, sir.
369
00:25:03,511 --> 00:25:04,820
Did he have any kids?
370
00:25:05,015 --> 00:25:09,172
If my memory serves, I believe there
were three little ones there that night.
371
00:25:13,399 --> 00:25:17,774
What kind of man shoots another man
in the back in front of his family?
372
00:25:18,902 --> 00:25:21,324
I love the land of my birth.
373
00:25:22,070 --> 00:25:24,558
I do not mean
just America as a country...
374
00:25:24,789 --> 00:25:26,251
...but Mississippi...
375
00:25:26,454 --> 00:25:28,046
... the state in which I was born.
376
00:25:29,110 --> 00:25:32,012
So the deplorable things
I speak of here today...
377
00:25:32,245 --> 00:25:34,449
... will be said to you
in hopes of a future...
378
00:25:35,189 --> 00:25:38,287
... where such will not
be the case in Mississippi.
379
00:25:38,485 --> 00:25:40,175
In the horrific deaths...
380
00:25:40,373 --> 00:25:41,802
...of Emmett Till...
381
00:25:42,164 --> 00:25:44,269
...Reverend G. W. Lee...
382
00:25:44,628 --> 00:25:47,246
...Lamar Smith and a variety
of other atrocities...
383
00:25:47,444 --> 00:25:49,779
...no one has been convicted.
384
00:25:50,356 --> 00:25:54,927
And we feel those guilty of having
committed these ungodly acts...
385
00:25:55,124 --> 00:25:58,539
...had the feeling of assurance
that nothing ever would be done.
386
00:25:58,835 --> 00:26:01,006
For you see, ladies and gentlemen...
387
00:26:01,618 --> 00:26:05,677
... white juries have yet to convict
a white man in Mississippi...
388
00:26:05,939 --> 00:26:08,360
...guilty of a crime against a Negro.
389
00:26:09,106 --> 00:26:13,514
The failure of the so-called decent
or moderate white person...
390
00:26:13,714 --> 00:26:17,009
... to take a positive
and uncompromising stand....
391
00:26:17,202 --> 00:26:18,412
Who's that?
392
00:26:19,921 --> 00:26:21,231
Medgar Evers.
393
00:26:24,209 --> 00:26:25,769
Why are you looking at it?
394
00:26:27,824 --> 00:26:31,141
I just wanted to get
an idea of who he was.
395
00:26:32,145 --> 00:26:34,413
I'd like to get
an idea of who you are.
396
00:26:35,024 --> 00:26:36,682
What's that supposed to mean?
397
00:26:37,392 --> 00:26:39,759
I was willing to go down
that road with you...
398
00:26:39,951 --> 00:26:42,886
...when you got out of law school
and did that pro bono work.
399
00:26:43,087 --> 00:26:46,469
And when you worked for
that Jew lawyer who ran you ragged.
400
00:26:46,927 --> 00:26:50,571
I minded a little when you turned down
that offer from Morse & Braggs...
401
00:26:50,767 --> 00:26:53,516
...so you could be assistant D.A.
at one-fourth the salary.
402
00:26:53,710 --> 00:26:56,939
But I'll be damned if I spent
10 years supporting your career...
403
00:26:57,134 --> 00:26:58,476
...just so you can humiliate me.
404
00:26:59,054 --> 00:27:01,225
You're gonna pursue this, aren't you?
405
00:27:02,190 --> 00:27:05,124
You're gonna humiliate me
in front of my friends...
406
00:27:05,326 --> 00:27:07,333
...my family and the entire state.
407
00:27:07,534 --> 00:27:09,476
I'm just looking
at a couple of tapes.
408
00:27:10,061 --> 00:27:12,482
Fine. Look at your tapes.
409
00:27:12,782 --> 00:27:14,439
That's all you'd better do.
410
00:27:19,820 --> 00:27:21,315
-Why not?
-Because you can't win.
411
00:27:21,517 --> 00:27:22,313
Who says?
412
00:27:22,572 --> 00:27:25,289
-The Sixth Amendment.
-Suppose I could get around it.
413
00:27:25,484 --> 00:27:28,615
It's one thing for
the grieving widow to carry on--
414
00:27:29,004 --> 00:27:32,746
Suppose an argument could be made
that the Sixth Amendment doesn't apply.
415
00:27:32,940 --> 00:27:34,402
You want to retry Beckwith?
416
00:27:34,635 --> 00:27:35,529
Fine.
417
00:27:35,787 --> 00:27:40,391
Dig up 26-year-old physical evidence
which probably no longer exists...
418
00:27:40,811 --> 00:27:44,772
...identify it, and then you'll have
to locate the key witnesses...
419
00:27:44,971 --> 00:27:47,622
...who, if you find them,
are probably dead or senile.
420
00:27:47,818 --> 00:27:50,185
Their testimony could be read
from the transcript.
421
00:27:50,378 --> 00:27:53,923
We haven't seen a certified
transcript in over 25 years.
422
00:27:54,121 --> 00:27:56,543
-What if I found one?
-Let's say, by some miracle...
423
00:27:56,745 --> 00:28:00,160
...you found one, got an indictment.
Then by some greater miracle...
424
00:28:00,361 --> 00:28:04,355
...the state Supreme Court and U.S.
Supreme Court didn't throw it out...
425
00:28:04,553 --> 00:28:07,106
...and you actually got to trial.
What if you lose?
426
00:28:07,304 --> 00:28:11,079
The whole state, which is supposed
to have changed so much...
427
00:28:11,273 --> 00:28:13,858
...will be facing the worst
public relations disaster...
428
00:28:14,056 --> 00:28:17,187
...since that black kid, Emmett Till,
bobbed up out of the river.
429
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:24,739
Are you telling me
I can't go after this?
430
00:28:24,935 --> 00:28:27,074
I'm telling you
you're dealing with the past.
431
00:28:27,271 --> 00:28:29,605
Mississippi's not
a place you wanna be.
432
00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:37,118
Hopefully, Jerry Mitchell can
keep this thing alive for us.
433
00:28:37,351 --> 00:28:40,417
Jerry Mitchell's fine, but
what we need is national press.
434
00:28:40,614 --> 00:28:44,988
Darrell, CNN won't run a major story
about how the D.A. of Hinds County...
435
00:28:45,190 --> 00:28:48,037
...is refusing to re-prosecute a case...
436
00:28:48,229 --> 00:28:50,139
...that's a quarter of a century old.
437
00:28:50,342 --> 00:28:52,796
Stop annoying your grandmama.
438
00:28:52,997 --> 00:28:57,023
The greatest joy in your mother's life
is being annoyed by her grandchildren.
439
00:28:57,220 --> 00:28:59,555
Next to being annoyed by you, Walter.
440
00:29:00,261 --> 00:29:01,187
I'll get it.
441
00:29:01,380 --> 00:29:03,355
I'm not here no matter who it is.
442
00:29:09,380 --> 00:29:10,362
Who?
443
00:29:12,195 --> 00:29:13,886
Just a minute, please.
444
00:29:14,692 --> 00:29:16,317
I want you to eat those beans.
445
00:29:16,516 --> 00:29:18,141
It's long distance from Jackson.
446
00:29:18,371 --> 00:29:21,153
A man by the name of DeLaughter.
You want me to take it?
447
00:29:21,347 --> 00:29:23,135
No, I'll take it.
448
00:29:23,427 --> 00:29:25,019
Eat those beans.
449
00:29:25,763 --> 00:29:27,585
I don't eat beans.
450
00:29:32,642 --> 00:29:33,754
Hello, Mrs. Evers.
451
00:29:33,954 --> 00:29:37,052
I know you probably left here
feeling pretty discouraged...
452
00:29:37,249 --> 00:29:40,478
...but I hope you understand
Mr. Peters was just being realistic.
453
00:29:40,673 --> 00:29:42,265
I understand perfectly.
454
00:29:42,466 --> 00:29:43,774
I also wanted you to know...
455
00:29:43,969 --> 00:29:46,685
...that we are going to
be keeping this case open.
456
00:29:49,505 --> 00:29:50,585
Mrs. Evers?
457
00:29:50,785 --> 00:29:53,817
Did it suddenly occur to
Mr. Peters that he'd better...
458
00:29:54,016 --> 00:29:57,790
...start making nice with the
black community before November?
459
00:29:58,336 --> 00:30:00,409
-Mrs. Evers--
-He made it clear to me...
460
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:03,706
...that in addition to having
no evidence and no witnesses...
461
00:30:03,904 --> 00:30:05,497
...he also had no interest.
462
00:30:05,727 --> 00:30:09,785
Looking into this wasn't so much
Mr. Peter's idea as it was mine.
463
00:30:09,983 --> 00:30:12,055
-Yours?
-Yes, ma'am.
464
00:30:14,526 --> 00:30:17,974
Judge Russel Moore was perhaps
the most racist judge...
465
00:30:18,174 --> 00:30:20,346
...in the history
of the state of Mississippi.
466
00:30:20,542 --> 00:30:23,357
Why would his son-in-law
be interested in this case?
467
00:30:23,614 --> 00:30:27,225
Mrs. Evers, I'm 37 years old,
just like Medgar was...
468
00:30:27,421 --> 00:30:29,658
...and I've got three kids,
like he did.
469
00:30:30,045 --> 00:30:32,533
I was 11 years old
when your husband was killed...
470
00:30:32,733 --> 00:30:34,773
...and I hardly remember him at all.
471
00:30:35,740 --> 00:30:39,734
But I went by your house the other day
and I could see him there...
472
00:30:40,540 --> 00:30:42,296
...watering his lawn...
473
00:30:42,845 --> 00:30:44,535
... working on his roof...
474
00:30:45,308 --> 00:30:47,163
...playing with his children.
475
00:30:47,804 --> 00:30:51,634
No man has the right to take
another man away from his children.
476
00:30:53,340 --> 00:30:55,892
I appreciate the call,
Mr. DeLaughter.
477
00:30:56,540 --> 00:30:58,362
I'll keep in touch, Mrs. Evers.
478
00:31:03,738 --> 00:31:05,364
Did you plan on telling me...
479
00:31:05,883 --> 00:31:08,435
...or was I just gonna read
about it in the papers?
480
00:31:10,458 --> 00:31:13,175
We should be at the
Walkers' house in 15 minutes.
481
00:31:14,618 --> 00:31:17,236
Well, I've got a lot
of work to do here.
482
00:31:21,177 --> 00:31:22,486
Suit yourself.
483
00:31:27,385 --> 00:31:30,167
Nobody gives a goddamn
what Byron De La Beckwith did...
484
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:32,532
...to some Medgar Evers 26 years ago.
485
00:31:32,728 --> 00:31:36,437
Hell, Larry Smith got shot down
in his own driveway just last week.
486
00:31:36,728 --> 00:31:38,418
And it wasn't for no civil rights.
487
00:31:38,616 --> 00:31:40,339
It was for his spare change.
488
00:31:40,536 --> 00:31:44,398
I could have had any investigator
I wanted, and I asked for you.
489
00:31:44,599 --> 00:31:46,486
Am I meant to be flattered by that?
490
00:31:46,679 --> 00:31:51,217
We're supposed to nail Eddie Williams
for killing Wendell Washington...
491
00:31:51,415 --> 00:31:54,132
...or that guy Pierson
for shooting Donny Brown.
492
00:31:54,327 --> 00:31:58,320
That's why we're only gonna work
on this case in our spare time.
493
00:32:16,245 --> 00:32:17,041
Holy shit.
494
00:32:18,165 --> 00:32:19,244
Will you look at this?
495
00:32:19,477 --> 00:32:23,819
You could buy a whole damn General
Electric refrigerator for $185.
496
00:32:26,164 --> 00:32:27,757
T alk about your good old days.
497
00:32:44,915 --> 00:32:45,930
That's my daddy.
498
00:32:48,147 --> 00:32:50,383
I didn't know he was on the force too.
499
00:32:50,610 --> 00:32:53,327
Sure. Detective L.C. Bennett.
500
00:32:53,810 --> 00:32:57,966
He was there when they found Beckwith's
rifle, but I've never seen this.
501
00:32:58,161 --> 00:32:59,786
John Goza is dead.
502
00:32:59,985 --> 00:33:01,447
Herbert Speight is dead.
503
00:33:01,873 --> 00:33:04,458
B.L. Pittman is dead.
504
00:33:04,689 --> 00:33:05,998
Is anybody alive?
505
00:33:06,225 --> 00:33:07,654
This is pointless.
506
00:33:10,321 --> 00:33:11,728
It's Jerry Mitchell.
507
00:33:13,488 --> 00:33:14,382
Jerry.
508
00:33:15,281 --> 00:33:16,841
I don't have the gun yet.
509
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:20,814
I don't have anything. If I find
the gun, you'll be the first to know.
510
00:33:21,488 --> 00:33:23,375
-Pain in my ass.
-It's funny.
511
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:26,501
I came by to see if you could
use some help on this case...
512
00:33:26,704 --> 00:33:28,842
...and you've got a picture of my daddy.
513
00:33:29,039 --> 00:33:30,729
We sure could use some help.
514
00:33:30,927 --> 00:33:32,934
Can you bring people
back from the dead?
515
00:33:33,903 --> 00:33:37,285
You're joking, but that's
exactly what we have to do.
516
00:33:37,486 --> 00:33:39,853
We have to make the past
start living again.
517
00:33:40,046 --> 00:33:42,151
This whole case is one big resurrection.
518
00:33:42,350 --> 00:33:44,652
I want you to go through
all the literature...
519
00:33:44,845 --> 00:33:47,049
...from every organization
Beckwith was part of:
520
00:33:47,246 --> 00:33:51,042
White Citizens Council,
Sons of the American Revolution, KKK.
521
00:33:51,277 --> 00:33:53,099
Good, I always loved homework.
522
00:33:53,293 --> 00:33:56,107
We'll start by paying
these boys a little visit.
523
00:33:56,301 --> 00:33:57,545
-Who's that?
-Two cops.
524
00:33:57,741 --> 00:34:01,352
They saw Beckwith 90 miles away
at the time of the murder.
525
00:34:01,580 --> 00:34:04,929
You think Holley and Cresswell
will admit they lied under oath?
526
00:34:05,580 --> 00:34:08,362
Time has a way of cleaning up
people's memories.
527
00:34:15,275 --> 00:34:17,250
I love the Delta.
528
00:34:17,483 --> 00:34:19,555
It's the best place on earth.
529
00:34:20,970 --> 00:34:22,214
If you're a mosquito.
530
00:34:27,115 --> 00:34:29,319
-T ake care now.
-Thank you, Mr. Holley.
531
00:34:30,921 --> 00:34:33,769
Sometimes you can't win for losing.
532
00:34:34,026 --> 00:34:36,775
I asked you boys
to meet me out here...
533
00:34:36,970 --> 00:34:41,028
...so as to avoid running
into any of my constituents.
534
00:34:41,961 --> 00:34:44,961
How long have you been
an alderman up here, Mr. Holley?
535
00:34:45,321 --> 00:34:47,589
Must be going on about five years.
536
00:34:47,977 --> 00:34:49,089
I'll tell you this:
537
00:34:49,288 --> 00:34:53,566
If word got out that I testified
on behalf of Byron De La Beckwith....
538
00:34:53,928 --> 00:34:57,310
I suppose, in a way, your boss
and me got the same problem.
539
00:34:57,512 --> 00:34:58,439
Sir?
540
00:34:58,696 --> 00:35:00,289
If we want to keep our jobs...
541
00:35:00,487 --> 00:35:03,171
...we'll have to kiss
an awful lot of black behind.
542
00:35:06,536 --> 00:35:07,877
Mr. Holley...
543
00:35:08,392 --> 00:35:12,352
...Evers was killed shortly after
midnight, 90 miles away in Jackson.
544
00:35:12,550 --> 00:35:14,787
There's no way the killer
could have been here...
545
00:35:15,015 --> 00:35:16,902
...at 1 a.m. pumping gas.
546
00:35:17,191 --> 00:35:19,678
No, sir, that'd be impossible.
547
00:35:19,877 --> 00:35:24,187
It was a long while ago, but I'd like
you to think back and tell me...
548
00:35:24,390 --> 00:35:26,113
...are you sure about the time...
549
00:35:26,310 --> 00:35:28,611
...you saw Mr. Beckwith
at that gas station?
550
00:35:28,997 --> 00:35:30,753
This old memory of mine...
551
00:35:30,949 --> 00:35:34,178
...gets worse and worse
with each passing year...
552
00:35:34,373 --> 00:35:36,894
...but there's two things
I am pretty sure about:
553
00:35:37,093 --> 00:35:39,613
It was approximately 1:03
in the morning...
554
00:35:39,812 --> 00:35:42,911
...and old Delay was gassing up
that Valiant of his.
555
00:35:44,772 --> 00:35:46,595
Lying son of a bitch.
556
00:35:46,853 --> 00:35:48,957
You thought you'd hear
something different?
557
00:35:49,156 --> 00:35:51,578
Maybe we'll have better luck
with his partner.
558
00:35:52,452 --> 00:35:54,240
Y'all wanna subpoena me...
559
00:35:54,435 --> 00:35:56,409
...then you go right ahead and do it.
560
00:35:56,675 --> 00:36:00,122
But if I see you,
Byron De La Beckwith...
561
00:36:00,323 --> 00:36:02,745
...or the blackest nigger
in this country...
562
00:36:02,947 --> 00:36:05,597
...putting gas in his car
at the time of a murder...
563
00:36:05,795 --> 00:36:07,551
...then that's what I'll say.
564
00:36:08,674 --> 00:36:10,463
I'd say he's in our camp.
565
00:36:18,593 --> 00:36:20,633
I wish I had better news
for her today.
566
00:36:20,834 --> 00:36:22,044
Who's that?
567
00:36:22,657 --> 00:36:23,867
Mrs. Evers.
568
00:36:24,352 --> 00:36:26,240
Fill it up for me, would you, buddy?
569
00:36:26,561 --> 00:36:30,173
I call her every Friday and let her
know how the case is progressing.
570
00:36:30,401 --> 00:36:33,150
Got a flash for you.
This case ain't progressing.
571
00:36:33,633 --> 00:36:36,981
I think about her keeping
this thing alive all this time.
572
00:36:37,695 --> 00:36:40,663
Imagine a woman loving a man so much.
573
00:36:43,007 --> 00:36:45,876
I can't even get a woman
to love me while I'm still alive.
574
00:36:46,079 --> 00:36:47,901
Know what I did after my last divorce?
575
00:36:48,128 --> 00:36:49,654
I took up golf.
576
00:36:49,855 --> 00:36:53,848
Man needs a hobby to occupy his mind,
or he'll start doing crazy things...
577
00:36:54,110 --> 00:36:55,703
...Iike drinking too much...
578
00:36:55,903 --> 00:36:59,645
...or chasing 26-year-old murder cases
across the Mississippi Delta.
579
00:37:07,645 --> 00:37:10,231
I told you I'd call you every Friday.
580
00:37:10,429 --> 00:37:13,495
And it's Friday, Mrs. Evers,
so I'm calling.
581
00:37:13,725 --> 00:37:16,376
This really isn't necessary.
582
00:37:16,605 --> 00:37:19,768
It's important to me you know
we're doing what we can.
583
00:37:19,965 --> 00:37:21,874
I wish I had better news
for you today...
584
00:37:22,076 --> 00:37:25,393
...but we still haven't been able
to locate the autopsy report.
585
00:37:25,596 --> 00:37:27,735
Most of the physical evidence
is still missing.
586
00:37:28,028 --> 00:37:31,192
A number of the witnesses have died,
which really hurts us...
587
00:37:31,387 --> 00:37:35,129
...and we've had no luck finding
the original trial transcript.
588
00:37:35,324 --> 00:37:38,171
I've just spoke with
both Holley and Cresswell...
589
00:37:38,363 --> 00:37:39,988
...and they're sticking
by their stories.
590
00:37:40,634 --> 00:37:45,304
I'm sure as the assistant
district attorney of Hinds County...
591
00:37:45,498 --> 00:37:47,670
...you're doing everything
in your power...
592
00:37:47,866 --> 00:37:49,775
...to see that justice is done.
593
00:37:55,385 --> 00:37:56,695
I'll call you next Friday.
594
00:37:57,081 --> 00:37:59,667
I'll be on pins and needles till then.
595
00:39:08,340 --> 00:39:10,249
I waited for you to come home.
596
00:39:13,172 --> 00:39:15,473
I'm not taking the children with me.
597
00:39:17,587 --> 00:39:20,434
I just need to be
on my own for a while.
598
00:39:37,041 --> 00:39:39,976
I was just wondering
when we stopped loving each other.
599
00:39:42,386 --> 00:39:43,629
I don't know.
600
00:39:47,793 --> 00:39:49,287
What happened, Bobby?
601
00:39:52,240 --> 00:39:53,766
People change.
602
00:39:56,016 --> 00:39:57,871
You saying I've changed?
603
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:01,705
I'm saying you haven't.
604
00:40:17,295 --> 00:40:20,840
-It's a beautiful area, Mr. Beckwith.
-It's heaven on earth.
605
00:40:21,037 --> 00:40:23,176
Of course, like everywhere else...
606
00:40:23,502 --> 00:40:26,469
... we do get the occasional
stray nigger moving in.
607
00:40:26,990 --> 00:40:29,356
But their houses always
seem to burn down.
608
00:40:29,581 --> 00:40:32,897
You know how careless niggers are
with their cigarettes.
609
00:40:33,965 --> 00:40:35,874
A real beauty.
610
00:40:36,077 --> 00:40:39,077
-Where'd you get this?
-Ed Bryson at Channel 3.
611
00:40:39,276 --> 00:40:41,381
They're running a piece on Beckwith.
612
00:40:41,580 --> 00:40:42,508
Do you think...
613
00:40:42,732 --> 00:40:45,831
...it's a crime for a white man
to kill a black man?
614
00:40:46,028 --> 00:40:50,087
God put the white man here
to rule over all the dusky races.
615
00:40:50,284 --> 00:40:52,139
It says so in the Bible.
616
00:40:52,331 --> 00:40:53,706
Is there a chance...
617
00:40:53,931 --> 00:40:57,247
... you'd be indicted again
for the murder of Medgar Evers?
618
00:40:57,451 --> 00:41:01,193
Why would I be?
Do you know of any new evidence?
619
00:41:01,387 --> 00:41:02,500
-Are you a Jew?
-Catholic.
620
00:41:02,699 --> 00:41:04,870
I told you, I won't talk to no Jew.
621
00:41:05,066 --> 00:41:07,749
Anybody who knows anything
about Jews and niggers...
622
00:41:07,946 --> 00:41:10,913
...knows that Jews put the niggers
up to all this foolishness.
623
00:41:11,146 --> 00:41:15,270
This CORE and SNCC and NAACP.
624
00:41:15,530 --> 00:41:16,937
If you were indicted again?
625
00:41:17,321 --> 00:41:20,223
Well, I'm just gonna
tend to my business...
626
00:41:20,490 --> 00:41:21,984
...Iike I always have.
627
00:41:22,249 --> 00:41:25,565
I'm gonna look out
for my God, my family...
628
00:41:25,769 --> 00:41:28,070
...and the whole state
of Christ's church.
629
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:31,011
That don't encompass anybody
but white Christians.
630
00:41:31,209 --> 00:41:32,769
All these other...
631
00:41:32,969 --> 00:41:36,002
...races and colors
and creeds and sissies...
632
00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:39,167
... they are anti-Christs.
See, many of them...
633
00:41:39,368 --> 00:41:42,368
...believe in human sacrifices
and voodoo and such.
634
00:41:42,568 --> 00:41:45,153
According to your way
of thinking...
635
00:41:45,383 --> 00:41:48,165
...how could justice be done
in the Medgar Evers murder?
636
00:41:49,991 --> 00:41:52,130
First, find out
who killed the nigger.
637
00:41:52,327 --> 00:41:53,887
Then you just...
638
00:41:54,150 --> 00:41:56,703
...do whatever the law says
that you can do...
639
00:41:56,902 --> 00:41:59,171
...if you're big enough to do it.
640
00:41:59,782 --> 00:42:01,757
He's daring us to get him.
641
00:42:02,437 --> 00:42:05,088
-We still ain't got nothing.
-I know what you'll say.
642
00:42:05,766 --> 00:42:08,068
-Did I kill Medgar Evers?
-Did you?
643
00:42:08,325 --> 00:42:09,886
I did not kill him.
644
00:42:10,853 --> 00:42:12,926
But he sure is dead.
645
00:42:13,349 --> 00:42:15,618
And he ain't coming back.
646
00:42:16,517 --> 00:42:18,972
What did you think when
you heard he'd been killed?
647
00:42:19,269 --> 00:42:21,155
I didn't shed a tear.
648
00:42:21,348 --> 00:42:22,331
No, sir.
649
00:42:26,980 --> 00:42:30,842
Here. The latest literary efforts
from the "Hate Group of the Month" Club.
650
00:42:31,364 --> 00:42:33,305
For people who got one thing
on their minds...
651
00:42:33,507 --> 00:42:36,092
...they got a lot of ways
to tell you about it.
652
00:42:37,603 --> 00:42:40,668
I wonder what old Judge Moore
would think about all this.
653
00:42:40,899 --> 00:42:42,971
Dixie still living with her mom?
654
00:42:44,674 --> 00:42:46,048
Shit, I'm late!
655
00:42:46,498 --> 00:42:48,407
Hot off the presses. Armed robbery.
656
00:42:48,738 --> 00:42:52,350
A guy named Spratlin held up
Crechelle's, got away with $3800...
657
00:42:52,609 --> 00:42:55,130
-...and an order of onion rings.
-I'll take care of it.
658
00:42:55,842 --> 00:42:56,768
Where you going?
659
00:42:56,961 --> 00:42:59,482
-I said I'd be home by 6.
-What about the Owens case?
660
00:42:59,778 --> 00:43:02,330
-The assault with the baseball bat.
-No, the carjacking.
661
00:43:02,529 --> 00:43:04,220
Right. I'm on top of it.
662
00:43:04,417 --> 00:43:06,872
You want this Evers thing
to be your life's work...
663
00:43:07,073 --> 00:43:08,927
...but there's cases that
occurred in this decade.
664
00:43:09,121 --> 00:43:10,168
I promise.
665
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:13,150
This office can't keep covering
for you with the judges.
666
00:43:13,376 --> 00:43:15,929
-You'd best be in court tomorrow.
-I'll be there.
667
00:43:22,528 --> 00:43:23,607
Daddy...
668
00:43:24,095 --> 00:43:27,161
...how come Grandpa Russel
would be mad at you?
669
00:43:29,183 --> 00:43:32,565
Mommy said Grandpa Russel
would be mad at you.
670
00:43:33,182 --> 00:43:35,484
Great. What else did Mommy say?
671
00:43:35,710 --> 00:43:38,874
She said that you're doing something
that Grandpa won't like.
672
00:43:39,935 --> 00:43:41,276
Yeah, well....
673
00:43:42,462 --> 00:43:43,923
What are you doing?
674
00:43:53,437 --> 00:43:56,338
Grandpa Russel and I didn't
always agree on things.
675
00:43:56,701 --> 00:43:57,846
What things?
676
00:43:58,877 --> 00:44:01,877
Let's see, how can I explain this?
677
00:44:04,732 --> 00:44:06,009
Explain it.
678
00:44:06,908 --> 00:44:07,988
Right.
679
00:44:08,636 --> 00:44:11,833
You know how sometimes
people can just be different?
680
00:44:12,092 --> 00:44:13,236
Like how?
681
00:44:13,436 --> 00:44:15,443
Grandpa used to eat pig's knuckles.
682
00:44:16,379 --> 00:44:18,616
That's how I feel.
See, we're different.
683
00:44:18,811 --> 00:44:20,753
Grandpa used to like to build things.
684
00:44:20,955 --> 00:44:24,370
I can't build anything,
but I like to work in the garden.
685
00:44:24,603 --> 00:44:28,181
Grandpa had guns all over his house,
and we don't have any guns.
686
00:44:28,730 --> 00:44:29,679
I have a gun.
687
00:44:29,914 --> 00:44:32,248
Yours is a nuclear-powered laser gun.
688
00:44:32,442 --> 00:44:34,929
I'm talking about
handguns and rifles.
689
00:44:36,985 --> 00:44:37,879
Holy shit!
690
00:44:38,074 --> 00:44:39,088
Claire, watch Drew!
691
00:44:39,289 --> 00:44:40,337
Holy shit.
692
00:44:40,570 --> 00:44:42,031
Don't say that.
That's a bad word.
693
00:44:48,025 --> 00:44:49,006
Benny?
694
00:44:49,209 --> 00:44:53,170
Sanders said something about
evidence disappearing after trials.
695
00:44:53,368 --> 00:44:55,278
Do you know anything about that?
696
00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:58,895
My daddy told me that kind of thing
happened all the time.
697
00:44:59,096 --> 00:45:03,830
People used to take stuff as souvenirs.
You know, lawyers, bailiffs, clerks.
698
00:45:04,343 --> 00:45:06,067
How about judges?
699
00:45:07,415 --> 00:45:08,276
That's true.
700
00:45:08,504 --> 00:45:11,056
I'm afraid I won't
be able to play Tuesday.
701
00:45:11,255 --> 00:45:14,156
We have a round robin at the club,
and I promised Lou Ann.
702
00:45:16,567 --> 00:45:19,152
Honey, don't worry about it.
I'll call Charlynne.
703
00:45:19,351 --> 00:45:21,771
If she can't make it, I'll get Louise.
704
00:45:21,974 --> 00:45:26,480
Sugar, play that jack of clubs for me
there, if you would. Please, ma'am.
705
00:45:27,925 --> 00:45:29,518
Hi, Grandma.
706
00:45:29,749 --> 00:45:32,913
What are you doing here?
Dixie's not here.
707
00:45:33,109 --> 00:45:35,695
I thought you'd enjoy
a visit from your grandkids.
708
00:45:35,892 --> 00:45:40,115
Darlin', it's my bridge night tonight.
Drew! Come here.
709
00:45:40,308 --> 00:45:42,447
Well, we can't stay but a minute.
710
00:45:42,676 --> 00:45:46,287
Remember that rifle Judge Moore used
to hold open the door to his study?
711
00:45:46,484 --> 00:45:48,720
Have you seen that around anywhere?
712
00:45:49,076 --> 00:45:50,985
Ladies, y'all know Bobby.
713
00:45:51,188 --> 00:45:53,010
That's Marilyn and Jill and Leah.
714
00:45:53,235 --> 00:45:57,293
I won't keep you from your game.
Go ahead and I'll be right back.
715
00:45:57,522 --> 00:46:00,108
Now, what is he doing here, Caroline?
716
00:46:01,907 --> 00:46:03,281
He's looking for a gun.
717
00:46:10,547 --> 00:46:12,586
I don't appreciate
your roaming around.
718
00:46:12,786 --> 00:46:16,168
I want you coming down
those stairs now, and leave.
719
00:46:16,369 --> 00:46:20,974
I spent many a happy hour up here
arguing the law with your husband.
720
00:46:21,233 --> 00:46:24,331
And if he knew what you were up to
with this Evers nonsense...
721
00:46:24,529 --> 00:46:26,733
...that man would
turn over in his grave.
722
00:46:27,024 --> 00:46:29,032
I said that to myself just this morning.
723
00:46:29,904 --> 00:46:32,271
Dixie always said
that you were crazy as hell.
724
00:46:32,496 --> 00:46:33,957
Maybe she did have a point.
725
00:46:34,385 --> 00:46:35,432
I love you...
726
00:46:35,984 --> 00:46:38,667
...but you and Dixie aren't
any more right for each other...
727
00:46:38,864 --> 00:46:40,390
...than the man in the moon.
728
00:46:42,799 --> 00:46:44,872
I'll go back
and resume my bridge game.
729
00:46:46,383 --> 00:46:48,390
You go on ahead.
I'll be right down.
730
00:46:51,279 --> 00:46:54,278
It's best if you come on
back down with me right now.
731
00:46:54,479 --> 00:46:55,372
I prefer it.
732
00:47:02,126 --> 00:47:04,298
Be careful. It could be loaded.
733
00:47:04,494 --> 00:47:06,349
-Hold on to that.
-What are you doing?
734
00:47:06,542 --> 00:47:09,324
-Checking this serial number.
-I love my grandchildren.
735
00:47:09,517 --> 00:47:13,259
-A little bit higher.
-It's inappropriate to march in here...
736
00:47:13,517 --> 00:47:16,299
...and you expect me to just let you....
737
00:47:16,492 --> 00:47:17,441
What?
738
00:47:18,637 --> 00:47:20,611
I love you, Caroline.
739
00:47:21,516 --> 00:47:24,419
-You're full of shit.
-I logged it in the evidence locker.
740
00:47:24,620 --> 00:47:26,921
-Logged what in?
-The gun that killed Medgar Evers.
741
00:47:27,116 --> 00:47:28,676
-You're full of shit.
-Who?
742
00:47:28,876 --> 00:47:30,664
He says he found the gun.
743
00:47:31,116 --> 00:47:33,931
-You're full of shit.
-That's something to tell Mrs. Evers.
744
00:47:34,123 --> 00:47:36,611
I'm not gonna tell Mrs. Evers.
745
00:47:37,835 --> 00:47:40,835
You've been making those Friday calls
so she'd trust you.
746
00:47:41,036 --> 00:47:45,737
-lf she finds out....
-I can't have her find out.
747
00:47:45,931 --> 00:47:47,491
This can't leave the office.
748
00:47:48,043 --> 00:47:52,298
The only way we're gonna get a new
indictment is if we find something...
749
00:47:52,490 --> 00:47:55,140
...they didn't have 27 years ago.
750
00:47:55,337 --> 00:47:58,534
The way I see it, that something
will come from Beckwith.
751
00:47:58,729 --> 00:48:00,551
Right now,
he's on his mountaintop...
752
00:48:00,745 --> 00:48:03,614
...shooting his mouth off
to anyone who'll listen.
753
00:48:03,817 --> 00:48:07,046
No telling what incriminating thing's
liable to come out of that man.
754
00:48:07,368 --> 00:48:09,954
But if he knows we have
something like this...
755
00:48:10,152 --> 00:48:12,291
...he'll know we're serious
and clam up.
756
00:48:12,488 --> 00:48:15,390
I doubt that Beckwith and Myrlie
speak all that often.
757
00:48:15,656 --> 00:48:17,859
Myrlie speaks to Jerry Mitchell.
758
00:48:18,344 --> 00:48:20,765
Jerry Mitchell speaks to the world.
759
00:48:31,878 --> 00:48:34,497
"You best stop wasting
our taxpayers' money.
760
00:48:34,694 --> 00:48:36,548
Enjoy your drive home."
761
00:48:37,158 --> 00:48:40,453
Nice to see Jackson still
has some concerned citizens.
762
00:48:41,958 --> 00:48:45,187
Well, heck, son,
what did you expect?
763
00:48:45,670 --> 00:48:48,833
I expect people to act like
decent, law-abiding citizens.
764
00:48:49,030 --> 00:48:50,939
This is 1990, for crying out loud.
765
00:48:51,141 --> 00:48:55,614
Of course it is. And we got blacks
and whites playing ball together...
766
00:48:55,813 --> 00:48:59,740
...and on the police force,
in the government, on TV.
767
00:49:00,132 --> 00:49:04,191
We are a fully evolved society.
Aren't we, son?
768
00:49:07,075 --> 00:49:08,319
Let me tell you something:
769
00:49:08,740 --> 00:49:12,570
This country may be legally
integrated, but emotionally...
770
00:49:12,772 --> 00:49:15,193
...we will always be segregated.
771
00:49:15,396 --> 00:49:17,468
I don't know that I accept that.
772
00:49:17,955 --> 00:49:19,002
Of course not.
773
00:49:19,235 --> 00:49:20,861
You're Bobby DeLaughter...
774
00:49:21,059 --> 00:49:23,961
...Mississippi's self-appointed
new civil rights leader.
775
00:49:24,483 --> 00:49:25,431
Barney...
776
00:49:25,699 --> 00:49:27,422
...do we have to talk about this?
777
00:49:27,618 --> 00:49:29,723
No, we do not.
778
00:49:31,042 --> 00:49:33,911
Who all wants some of your
grandpa's famous baby backs?
779
00:49:34,113 --> 00:49:35,640
I do! I do!
780
00:49:46,049 --> 00:49:47,477
You're my son.
781
00:49:47,937 --> 00:49:49,497
I don't want you to get hurt.
782
00:49:52,289 --> 00:49:54,590
In Jackson, Mississippi
783
00:49:55,552 --> 00:49:58,847
In 1963
784
00:49:59,648 --> 00:50:02,714
There lived a man
785
00:50:02,911 --> 00:50:03,991
Who was brave
786
00:50:06,111 --> 00:50:09,940
He fought for freedom
787
00:50:10,911 --> 00:50:12,188
Hello, Mrs. Evers?
788
00:50:12,479 --> 00:50:13,656
It's Bobby DeLaughter.
789
00:50:14,398 --> 00:50:16,635
Nothing earth shattering, no.
790
00:50:16,958 --> 00:50:19,030
We've located all the witnesses...
791
00:50:19,230 --> 00:50:22,132
...but without the original
trial transcript...
792
00:50:22,334 --> 00:50:24,243
...it's tough piecing the case together.
793
00:50:25,694 --> 00:50:27,449
No, ma'am, that's about it.
794
00:50:28,317 --> 00:50:31,732
-I wish I had more to report.
-Hang up the phone.
795
00:50:31,965 --> 00:50:34,812
-Hang up the phone.
-I hope I'll have something...
796
00:50:35,005 --> 00:50:37,241
...a little more exciting next Friday.
797
00:50:38,045 --> 00:50:39,289
-You too.
-Hang up.
798
00:50:39,868 --> 00:50:42,203
I'll call you next Friday, Mrs. Evers.
799
00:50:43,101 --> 00:50:44,955
Thank you. Goodbye.
800
00:50:45,404 --> 00:50:46,516
What is going on?
801
00:50:46,748 --> 00:50:50,043
Would a confession by Mr. Beckwith
qualify as exciting?
802
00:50:50,844 --> 00:50:51,640
What do you got?
803
00:50:52,380 --> 00:50:53,361
You know Jack Ables?
804
00:50:53,564 --> 00:50:54,359
The lawyer?
805
00:50:54,556 --> 00:50:57,871
He's representing a movie studio
in a defamation of character suit...
806
00:50:58,074 --> 00:51:02,384
...brought by a couple Klansmen.
While he was doing his research...
807
00:51:02,587 --> 00:51:04,179
...he came across that.
808
00:51:05,626 --> 00:51:07,033
"Klandestine."
809
00:51:07,482 --> 00:51:09,042
It was written 20 years ago...
810
00:51:09,242 --> 00:51:12,787
...about this Klan titan turned
FBl informant, Delmar Dennis.
811
00:51:12,985 --> 00:51:17,720
On page 38, he talks about attending
a Klan rally in August of 1965.
812
00:51:18,041 --> 00:51:20,113
Guess who was a motivational speaker?
813
00:51:22,329 --> 00:51:23,758
-Beckwith?
-Our boy.
814
00:51:23,961 --> 00:51:25,139
Listen to this.
815
00:51:25,529 --> 00:51:26,936
And I quote:
816
00:51:27,321 --> 00:51:30,998
" Killing that nigger gave me no more
discomfort than our wives endure...
817
00:51:31,193 --> 00:51:33,102
...when they give birth
to our children."
818
00:51:33,496 --> 00:51:35,187
Sounds like a confession to me.
819
00:51:35,384 --> 00:51:39,475
Let's run down this Delmar Dennis.
We need to have a chat with him.
820
00:51:47,320 --> 00:51:49,807
$100 says old Delmar
chickens out on us.
821
00:51:50,104 --> 00:51:53,398
He's probably hiding in the woods,
shitting in his drawers.
822
00:52:01,527 --> 00:52:03,348
Where the hell is this place?
823
00:52:03,574 --> 00:52:05,362
This guy informed on the Klan.
824
00:52:05,589 --> 00:52:09,965
He could have made a deal with them
to save his butt by delivering us.
825
00:52:10,166 --> 00:52:11,857
That's a happy thought.
826
00:53:15,504 --> 00:53:17,391
One of you Bobby DeLaughter?
827
00:53:19,216 --> 00:53:22,314
Holding rallies and burning
crosses is one thing...
828
00:53:22,512 --> 00:53:25,675
...but when they killed them
three kids up in Neshoba County...
829
00:53:25,871 --> 00:53:28,075
-...freedom riders--
-Goodman, Chaney, Schwerner?
830
00:53:29,711 --> 00:53:32,329
That made a lot of people
come to their senses.
831
00:53:32,719 --> 00:53:36,199
That's why I decided
to go undercover for the FBl.
832
00:53:36,911 --> 00:53:40,074
I need to ask you if what
you say in that book happened.
833
00:53:40,270 --> 00:53:44,198
That part about Beckwith's speech
at that Klan rally. Is that a fact?
834
00:53:45,038 --> 00:53:46,183
It's a fact.
835
00:53:46,542 --> 00:53:49,673
I was shocked, and I remember
thinking how stupid he was...
836
00:53:49,869 --> 00:53:52,738
...shooting off his mouth
like that in front of 100 men.
837
00:53:52,973 --> 00:53:55,755
-Did you report that to the FBl?
-Sure, I did.
838
00:53:55,981 --> 00:53:59,046
But Beckwith was a white man
accused of killing a black.
839
00:53:59,245 --> 00:54:02,758
The FBl wasn't gonna blow my cover
on a case they couldn't win.
840
00:54:02,956 --> 00:54:04,866
They were saving me
for Neshoba because--
841
00:54:05,260 --> 00:54:06,754
Two of the victims were white.
842
00:54:13,707 --> 00:54:16,707
Mr. Dennis,
if I can't build the case...
843
00:54:16,908 --> 00:54:20,485
...I give you my word that
we never had this conversation.
844
00:54:21,451 --> 00:54:22,825
But if I can...
845
00:54:23,019 --> 00:54:24,513
...will you testify?
846
00:54:28,202 --> 00:54:30,373
Byron De La Beckwith
is the craziest...
847
00:54:30,569 --> 00:54:33,569
...most dangerous son of a bitch
I ever come across.
848
00:54:33,866 --> 00:54:36,353
He's so crazy even
the Klan's afraid of him.
849
00:54:36,585 --> 00:54:37,829
He's an old man now.
850
00:54:38,026 --> 00:54:42,280
That old man is probably more dangerous
today than he was 30 years ago.
851
00:54:43,209 --> 00:54:45,664
Mr. Dennis, we need your help.
852
00:54:46,569 --> 00:54:48,707
I can't make no promises.
853
00:54:52,680 --> 00:54:54,502
You know something, Mr. Dennis?
854
00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:56,382
Six months I've worked this case.
855
00:54:56,585 --> 00:54:59,039
A lot of people have told me
to give it up.
856
00:54:59,240 --> 00:55:02,371
" It's 27 years old.
Let sleeping dogs lie."
857
00:55:02,567 --> 00:55:04,902
But I don't see
what difference it makes...
858
00:55:05,095 --> 00:55:07,167
...if a man was
bushwhacked yesterday...
859
00:55:07,367 --> 00:55:10,149
...today or 27 damn years ago.
860
00:55:10,343 --> 00:55:11,935
Murder is murder.
861
00:55:12,647 --> 00:55:15,876
It's still my job to bring
the son of a bitch to justice.
862
00:55:16,071 --> 00:55:17,794
It's still your job to help me.
863
00:55:18,022 --> 00:55:21,251
No. I did my job.
I testified against the Klan.
864
00:55:21,445 --> 00:55:23,747
They shot out my windows,
blew up my car.
865
00:55:23,941 --> 00:55:26,592
They hunted and harassed me
for 25 years!
866
00:55:26,982 --> 00:55:29,022
Don't that get me even
for the wrong I done?
867
00:55:30,245 --> 00:55:32,798
We never get even
for the wrong we've done.
868
00:55:45,988 --> 00:55:47,810
If I do this thing...
869
00:55:50,147 --> 00:55:52,089
...you gotta promise me protection.
870
00:56:01,571 --> 00:56:02,715
What's going on?
871
00:56:03,906 --> 00:56:04,703
Stop that.
872
00:56:04,898 --> 00:56:06,207
Stop that. IKnock it off.
873
00:56:06,434 --> 00:56:07,230
Enough of that!
874
00:56:07,522 --> 00:56:09,888
-What's going on?
-Eddy called you a nigger lover.
875
00:56:10,082 --> 00:56:13,311
My dad says you're after a man
for something that isn't even a crime.
876
00:56:13,537 --> 00:56:16,734
That's enough fighting, son.
You get on home. Go on home.
877
00:56:16,929 --> 00:56:18,304
Let me take a look at you.
878
00:56:18,497 --> 00:56:22,042
My God. Get in this house.
What's gotten into you?
879
00:56:26,433 --> 00:56:28,952
All this fighting.
All this name-calling.
880
00:56:29,441 --> 00:56:30,685
Is this what you want?
881
00:56:30,913 --> 00:56:32,539
To drag your children into this?
882
00:56:32,768 --> 00:56:35,735
What would you have me do?
Let a murderer go free?
883
00:56:36,096 --> 00:56:39,195
I'd never tell you your business.
I'm thinking about the children.
884
00:56:39,392 --> 00:56:42,556
I don't understand why every
decent person in this state...
885
00:56:42,751 --> 00:56:45,817
...isn't sickened by what
happened here 27 years ago.
886
00:56:46,016 --> 00:56:48,187
-Oh, Bobby.
-You're not, are you?
887
00:56:48,383 --> 00:56:50,685
-Not in front of the children.
-Why not?
888
00:56:50,911 --> 00:56:52,285
I was just a kid...
889
00:56:52,479 --> 00:56:55,446
...and I still remember you
and your friends discussing it.
890
00:56:55,646 --> 00:56:58,995
And I recollect someone saying,
"That nigger needed to be shot."
891
00:57:00,221 --> 00:57:02,294
I never said a hateful
thing like that.
892
00:57:02,493 --> 00:57:06,071
-You didn't cry, did you?
-I can't say that I shed any tears--
893
00:57:06,270 --> 00:57:09,685
Had it been our beloved governor,
Ross Barnett, got himself shot...
894
00:57:09,885 --> 00:57:12,503
...you would've been
bawling your eyes out.
895
00:57:12,701 --> 00:57:16,727
Evers left a young widow and three
little kids. Why didn't you cry?
896
00:57:16,925 --> 00:57:18,965
-I don't wanna discuss this now.
-Why?
897
00:57:19,164 --> 00:57:21,553
Because he tried to destroy
our way of life.
898
00:57:21,756 --> 00:57:23,381
And he succeeded all too well.
899
00:57:23,580 --> 00:57:26,231
This state's going to hell
on account of integration.
900
00:57:26,428 --> 00:57:29,111
That's a fact. If you think
they appreciate one thing...
901
00:57:29,308 --> 00:57:31,031
...we gave them, you're crazy.
902
00:57:31,228 --> 00:57:33,617
-Tiger, how do you feel?
-I'm all right.
903
00:57:33,819 --> 00:57:37,167
-Your son has one tough nose.
-So it's not broken?
904
00:57:38,395 --> 00:57:41,362
It'll be tender for a couple days,
then it'll be good as new.
905
00:57:41,627 --> 00:57:43,252
Thank you. I appreciate it.
906
00:57:43,451 --> 00:57:44,793
You're welcome.
907
00:57:45,498 --> 00:57:46,840
Thank you, ma'am.
908
00:57:52,378 --> 00:57:54,679
Are you the one involved
in this Medgar Evers thing?
909
00:57:56,794 --> 00:57:58,168
Yes, I am.
910
00:57:58,681 --> 00:58:02,030
I think what you're trying to do
is very important.
911
00:58:05,977 --> 00:58:07,766
Thank you very much.
912
00:58:22,743 --> 00:58:25,165
I don't want you kids getting
into anymore fights.
913
00:58:25,367 --> 00:58:28,214
-But he called you a--
-I don't care what he called me.
914
00:58:28,407 --> 00:58:31,920
It doesn't bother me. You gotta
learn not to let it bother you.
915
00:58:32,119 --> 00:58:35,151
A lot of people around here
don't like what Daddy's doing now.
916
00:58:35,478 --> 00:58:37,039
What are you doing, Daddy?
917
00:58:38,518 --> 00:58:41,551
I'm trying to put a bad man in jail.
918
00:58:42,102 --> 00:58:43,957
Mama says what you're doing is wrong.
919
00:58:44,149 --> 00:58:47,280
Grandma said Edgar Mevers
is ruining our life.
920
00:58:51,989 --> 00:58:55,601
Medgar Evers was a good guy
who tried to help people.
921
00:58:55,797 --> 00:58:58,252
Did he try to beat the bad guys?
922
00:58:58,453 --> 00:59:01,933
Yes, he did. He fought
so that black people...
923
00:59:02,132 --> 00:59:05,034
...could eat in the same restaurants,
swim in the same pools...
924
00:59:05,236 --> 00:59:08,814
...shop in the same stores and go
to the same schools as white people.
925
00:59:09,012 --> 00:59:09,993
What's wrong with that?
926
00:59:10,196 --> 00:59:11,243
Nothing.
927
00:59:12,339 --> 00:59:14,957
But you'll hear people say
all kinds of bad things...
928
00:59:15,155 --> 00:59:16,748
...about what your daddy's doing.
929
00:59:16,947 --> 00:59:19,761
They're gonna tease you,
try to pick fights.
930
00:59:20,115 --> 00:59:21,805
But no matter what they do...
931
00:59:22,355 --> 00:59:24,427
...I want you to walk away.
932
00:59:25,426 --> 00:59:27,400
What if they say
something really mean?
933
00:59:27,602 --> 00:59:31,049
They're only words. They can't
hurt you unless you let them.
934
00:59:31,250 --> 00:59:33,617
Is this about sticks and stones?
935
00:59:33,810 --> 00:59:36,362
That's exactly what this is about.
936
00:59:36,658 --> 00:59:38,315
Y'all understand what I'm saying?
937
00:59:38,513 --> 00:59:39,560
Yes, sir.
938
00:59:39,889 --> 00:59:41,002
All right.
939
00:59:41,297 --> 00:59:42,639
All y'all get on to bed now.
940
00:59:44,081 --> 00:59:45,226
Good night.
941
01:00:06,446 --> 01:00:09,829
I heard you had a little visit
with my friend Delmar.
942
01:00:10,031 --> 01:00:11,045
Mr. Beckwith?
943
01:00:11,406 --> 01:00:14,822
Next time you see old Delmar,
you tell him for me...
944
01:00:15,086 --> 01:00:17,028
...there are a lot
of dark, winding roads...
945
01:00:17,231 --> 01:00:21,638
... between the backwoods of Louisiana
and a courtroom in Mississippi.
946
01:00:22,190 --> 01:00:24,677
A man could get lost.
947
01:00:34,061 --> 01:00:35,621
Claire, what's the matter?
948
01:00:36,141 --> 01:00:38,149
The ghost's in my room again.
949
01:00:41,868 --> 01:00:43,777
Let's see what we can do.
950
01:00:46,604 --> 01:00:48,743
-Where is he?
-Sitting right there.
951
01:00:48,939 --> 01:00:50,401
Oh, right.
952
01:00:52,043 --> 01:00:54,018
Daddy, sing "Dixie."
953
01:00:55,948 --> 01:00:57,639
Hop into bed, sweetie.
954
01:01:07,755 --> 01:01:08,802
Sing.
955
01:01:10,282 --> 01:01:13,762
You know, sweetie, maybe
" Dixie" is not the right song.
956
01:01:14,218 --> 01:01:16,487
Maybe that's why
this ghost keeps coming back.
957
01:01:16,682 --> 01:01:18,591
-But you said--
-I know, baby.
958
01:01:19,242 --> 01:01:22,471
But I'm not so sure
that all ghosts like "Dixie."
959
01:01:22,665 --> 01:01:25,316
But how do we know
what this ghost likes?
960
01:01:25,864 --> 01:01:30,141
Seeing as this is your special ghost,
maybe he'll like your favorite song.
961
01:01:30,345 --> 01:01:31,871
"Old MacDonald"?
962
01:01:32,072 --> 01:01:33,633
Let's give it a try.
963
01:01:35,560 --> 01:01:37,469
Old MacDonald had a farm
964
01:01:37,736 --> 01:01:39,230
E-I-E-I-O
965
01:01:39,432 --> 01:01:41,287
And on that farm he had a--
966
01:01:41,479 --> 01:01:42,340
What?
967
01:01:42,824 --> 01:01:43,936
A ghost?
968
01:01:45,864 --> 01:01:48,002
And on that farm he had a ghost
969
01:01:48,199 --> 01:01:49,627
E-I-E-I-O
970
01:01:49,959 --> 01:01:51,846
With a boo boo here
And a boo boo there
971
01:01:52,038 --> 01:01:54,558
Here a boo, there a boo
Everywhere a boo boo
972
01:02:07,814 --> 01:02:09,275
You wanted to have lunch
to talk about Burt's nose?
973
01:02:10,021 --> 01:02:11,198
No, actually, l....
974
01:02:11,397 --> 01:02:12,826
I didn't think so.
975
01:02:15,301 --> 01:02:17,057
So then, this is a date?
976
01:02:18,437 --> 01:02:19,517
Apparently.
977
01:02:19,940 --> 01:02:21,664
In the hospital cafeteria?
978
01:02:21,860 --> 01:02:26,115
I took a chance. I thought
it would either be stupid or charming.
979
01:02:26,789 --> 01:02:27,715
What do you think?
980
01:02:28,132 --> 01:02:29,658
Is there a third choice?
981
01:02:29,860 --> 01:02:30,754
Extremely charming?
982
01:02:30,947 --> 01:02:32,409
That's the one.
983
01:02:34,595 --> 01:02:36,253
How'd you get into all this?
984
01:02:36,676 --> 01:02:38,585
You want the standard answer
or the truth?
985
01:02:38,787 --> 01:02:40,248
How about a little of both?
986
01:02:42,179 --> 01:02:44,186
I always liked helping people...
987
01:02:44,386 --> 01:02:45,499
...and I like the hours.
988
01:02:45,762 --> 01:02:47,038
Which answer was that?
989
01:02:47,235 --> 01:02:48,544
A little of both.
990
01:02:48,769 --> 01:02:52,185
But I do like that I work
one week on and one week off.
991
01:02:52,546 --> 01:02:53,659
Can't beat that.
992
01:02:53,858 --> 01:02:56,924
Have to be careful not to shop
too much in that week off.
993
01:02:57,121 --> 01:02:59,609
That can kill you.
What about you?
994
01:03:00,257 --> 01:03:02,940
I wanted to be a lawyer
since I was a little kid.
995
01:03:03,137 --> 01:03:04,697
I watched Perry Mason...
996
01:03:04,896 --> 01:03:07,711
...all the time.
I identified with him.
997
01:03:07,937 --> 01:03:10,303
-But he was a defense attorney.
-I know.
998
01:03:10,752 --> 01:03:13,501
Later, I realized the only way
he ever won a case...
999
01:03:13,696 --> 01:03:16,184
...is if some guy jumped up
and yelled, "I did it!"
1000
01:03:16,384 --> 01:03:19,450
That didn't happen often,
so I switched to the other side.
1001
01:03:19,776 --> 01:03:22,012
I think it's a good thing you did.
1002
01:03:24,511 --> 01:03:26,846
You would be in
the minority these days.
1003
01:03:28,063 --> 01:03:31,129
There are a lot more people
on your side than you think.
1004
01:03:32,190 --> 01:03:35,125
You're not saying that because
I bought you a lime Jell-O?
1005
01:03:36,318 --> 01:03:38,652
Well, it is the way
to a woman's heart.
1006
01:03:41,150 --> 01:03:45,405
But if you could pull this off,
it'd do Mississippi a whole lot of good.
1007
01:03:47,070 --> 01:03:48,247
And if I don't?
1008
01:03:49,790 --> 01:03:51,862
I'll pretend I never met you.
1009
01:03:59,069 --> 01:04:01,883
I have renewed faith
in the institution of marriage.
1010
01:04:02,077 --> 01:04:04,345
I can't get enough
of my hunk of burning love.
1011
01:04:04,540 --> 01:04:06,428
Not now, Clara May!
1012
01:04:08,988 --> 01:04:10,417
Clara Mayfield.
1013
01:04:11,772 --> 01:04:14,259
-It's Jerry Mitchell.
-I'll take it.
1014
01:04:20,091 --> 01:04:22,546
-I know you have the gun.
-We've been over this.
1015
01:04:22,746 --> 01:04:24,950
I know you found it
in Russel Moore's den.
1016
01:04:25,786 --> 01:04:30,063
There'll be a story about how the
D.A. Iied to the people of Jackson...
1017
01:04:30,266 --> 01:04:32,852
...and how Bobby DeLaughter
lied to Myrlie Evers.
1018
01:04:33,050 --> 01:04:35,471
I'm calling to see
if you care to comment.
1019
01:04:35,674 --> 01:04:37,430
You've explained why
you lied to the press.
1020
01:04:37,625 --> 01:04:40,047
You still have not explained
why you lied to me.
1021
01:04:40,249 --> 01:04:42,704
I told you. Jerry Mitchell
is a loose cannon.
1022
01:04:42,905 --> 01:04:45,752
This case was so delicate,
I didn't want to take chances.
1023
01:04:45,944 --> 01:04:49,773
I'm the last person on earth who
would jeopardize this investigation.
1024
01:04:49,976 --> 01:04:52,310
There's something
you're not telling me.
1025
01:04:52,504 --> 01:04:55,253
I swear to God, there is no cover-up.
1026
01:04:55,448 --> 01:04:58,382
You fully intend to seek
an indictment and a new trial?
1027
01:04:58,584 --> 01:05:00,689
That's what we've
been working toward.
1028
01:05:00,887 --> 01:05:02,894
I thought so, Mr. DeLaughter.
1029
01:05:03,287 --> 01:05:04,662
I thought so.
1030
01:05:04,951 --> 01:05:08,366
This latest revelation only proves
what we've suspected all along.
1031
01:05:08,566 --> 01:05:12,461
Peters and DeLaughter are just putting
on a show for the black community.
1032
01:05:12,662 --> 01:05:16,524
As far as I'm concerned, they're nothing
but a pair of lying racists...
1033
01:05:16,726 --> 01:05:18,287
...who never, I repeat, never...
1034
01:05:18,486 --> 01:05:21,333
...had any intention
of prosecuting this case.
1035
01:05:23,286 --> 01:05:24,398
You wanted to see me?
1036
01:05:24,598 --> 01:05:26,420
Come on, sit down.
1037
01:05:29,141 --> 01:05:33,035
You don't mind being seen in
the same room with a "lying racist"?
1038
01:05:33,813 --> 01:05:35,536
I don't mind if you don't.
1039
01:05:37,141 --> 01:05:38,450
You know Pat Bennett?
1040
01:05:38,964 --> 01:05:41,779
Sure, she's one of the best
lawyers in the state.
1041
01:05:43,221 --> 01:05:44,682
Why are we talking about her?
1042
01:05:45,940 --> 01:05:48,974
I thought she might be able
to help you on the case.
1043
01:05:49,843 --> 01:05:52,014
I've got it under control, Ed.
1044
01:05:54,324 --> 01:05:56,844
You have your share of
the 93 capital murder cases...
1045
01:05:57,043 --> 01:05:59,280
...we have waiting for trial
under control?
1046
01:06:00,019 --> 01:06:02,223
What new excuse would
you suggest I give...
1047
01:06:02,419 --> 01:06:05,582
...to the families as to why those
who've murdered their loved ones...
1048
01:06:05,779 --> 01:06:07,436
...have yet to see a courtroom?
1049
01:06:08,082 --> 01:06:11,529
I'm just curious.
The fact that Pat Bennett is black...
1050
01:06:11,729 --> 01:06:14,282
...wouldn't have anything to do
with this, would it?
1051
01:06:14,994 --> 01:06:17,066
I'm not gonna dignify that.
1052
01:06:18,993 --> 01:06:22,341
Whatever you may think,
this is not the Bobby DeLaughter case.
1053
01:06:22,545 --> 01:06:25,840
This is a case against the peace
and dignity of Mississippi.
1054
01:06:26,737 --> 01:06:29,071
Monday morning, I'm making a change.
1055
01:06:33,968 --> 01:06:37,230
You're about to hear the testimony
of a fingerprint expert...
1056
01:06:37,424 --> 01:06:41,547
...concerning evidence he claims
to have identified in a certain glass.
1057
01:06:41,743 --> 01:06:43,336
You're entitled to consider...
1058
01:06:43,536 --> 01:06:47,212
... the prosecution's failure to make
the glass available to the defense.
1059
01:06:47,407 --> 01:06:51,749
It is permissible that for one fact
alone to raise a doubt in your minds...
1060
01:06:51,951 --> 01:06:54,252
... that will require
Mrs. Savage's acquittal.
1061
01:06:54,447 --> 01:06:57,643
-Can he do that?
-This is my case, damn it.
1062
01:06:57,839 --> 01:06:59,780
How dare they say
I'm putting on a show?
1063
01:06:59,982 --> 01:07:03,211
Only two people care about
this case, and I'm one of them.
1064
01:07:03,405 --> 01:07:07,017
If anybody's putting on a show,
they are. The only thing they' re--
1065
01:07:07,661 --> 01:07:11,044
They're only trying to stir up
emotions and position themselves...
1066
01:07:11,245 --> 01:07:13,579
...as the saviors
of the black community.
1067
01:07:21,357 --> 01:07:22,468
Where you going?
1068
01:07:40,875 --> 01:07:43,558
This is Bobby DeLaughter.
I hope I didn't disturb you.
1069
01:07:45,163 --> 01:07:47,170
This won't take but a minute, ma'am.
1070
01:07:48,522 --> 01:07:50,660
When I started off,
I had nothing more than...
1071
01:07:50,858 --> 01:07:53,727
...a couple of pages
in an old police report.
1072
01:07:54,474 --> 01:07:57,507
I spent the better part of a year
bumping up against dead witnesses...
1073
01:07:57,706 --> 01:07:59,615
...and tracking down live ones.
1074
01:07:59,818 --> 01:08:03,014
My car's been vandalized,
my son's been in a fight...
1075
01:08:03,209 --> 01:08:06,656
...and I've been called ugly things
by every racist in Mississippi.
1076
01:08:06,857 --> 01:08:08,864
Now, when there's a chance
for an indictment...
1077
01:08:09,065 --> 01:08:11,137
...I've gotta fight off
black politicians too.
1078
01:08:11,336 --> 01:08:15,297
I'm sorry I lied about the gun,
but I've made a commitment to this case.
1079
01:08:15,496 --> 01:08:16,642
I'll be goddamned--
1080
01:08:16,840 --> 01:08:19,556
Pardon me, if I give it up
to some special prosecutor...
1081
01:08:19,751 --> 01:08:22,053
...I don't care if he's
black, green or blue.
1082
01:08:22,247 --> 01:08:25,182
I'm committed and I'm asking you
to make a commitment to me.
1083
01:08:25,383 --> 01:08:28,002
If you do, I'll ride this thing
to the finish line...
1084
01:08:28,199 --> 01:08:30,370
...or collapse
heading in that direction.
1085
01:08:31,878 --> 01:08:34,399
Thank you for your call,
Mr. DeLaughter.
1086
01:08:38,662 --> 01:08:40,964
The hell with her!
She's like all the rest.
1087
01:08:41,158 --> 01:08:45,119
The white world hasn't gone out
of its way to make her trusting.
1088
01:08:45,318 --> 01:08:47,106
When does it start?
What do I have to do?
1089
01:08:47,301 --> 01:08:50,171
We had a real chance to send
a message to this country...
1090
01:08:50,373 --> 01:08:53,220
...that Mississippi isn't
a bunch of redneck racists.
1091
01:08:53,413 --> 01:08:57,341
My mother was right. We should
separate and let the South rise again.
1092
01:08:57,540 --> 01:08:59,580
-You don't believe that.
-Why not?
1093
01:08:59,780 --> 01:09:01,210
She doesn't want my help.
1094
01:09:01,413 --> 01:09:03,747
I'm just another white man
putting her in her place.
1095
01:09:03,941 --> 01:09:06,329
She sees no difference
between me and Beckwith.
1096
01:09:06,531 --> 01:09:08,353
-You didn't tell her about the gun.
-Right.
1097
01:09:08,612 --> 01:09:12,474
If I had it to do over again,
I still wouldn't have told her.
1098
01:09:12,676 --> 01:09:16,472
IKeeping the discovery of the murder
weapon a secret was a good strategy.
1099
01:09:16,676 --> 01:09:20,636
It wouldn't bother her a lick if I was
black. I'd just be a smart lawyer.
1100
01:09:21,251 --> 01:09:23,355
You can't have it both ways.
1101
01:09:23,683 --> 01:09:25,341
What do you mean by that?
1102
01:09:26,850 --> 01:09:29,436
You said the reason you didn't
tell her about the gun...
1103
01:09:29,634 --> 01:09:32,154
...was that you were afraid
she would leak the story.
1104
01:09:32,354 --> 01:09:35,321
You can't expect her to trust you,
if you don't trust her.
1105
01:09:52,768 --> 01:09:55,866
I want you to meet with Pat Bennett
and bring her up to speed.
1106
01:09:57,601 --> 01:09:58,582
Fine.
1107
01:09:59,872 --> 01:10:01,246
It's for the best.
1108
01:10:02,335 --> 01:10:03,862
If you say so.
1109
01:10:25,917 --> 01:10:27,827
I'm going out.
You want something?
1110
01:10:28,029 --> 01:10:31,607
I'd like a Mercedes convertible,
but I'd settle for a Dr. Pepper.
1111
01:11:24,857 --> 01:11:28,118
There are four important
things in my life:
1112
01:11:28,985 --> 01:11:31,025
Medgar, Walter...
1113
01:11:31,321 --> 01:11:32,630
...my children...
1114
01:11:32,920 --> 01:11:34,262
...and this...
1115
01:11:34,872 --> 01:11:38,035
...the original
court-certified transcript.
1116
01:11:38,584 --> 01:11:41,039
I've kept this for 27 years...
1117
01:11:41,335 --> 01:11:43,506
...through three district attorneys.
1118
01:11:43,703 --> 01:11:45,525
Once I give this up...
1119
01:11:45,720 --> 01:11:48,469
...I know that it may be gone forever.
1120
01:11:57,718 --> 01:12:00,173
I don't believe you'll find
anymore opposition...
1121
01:12:00,374 --> 01:12:02,762
...to your continuing
to handle this case.
1122
01:12:04,021 --> 01:12:05,231
Thank you, ma'am.
1123
01:12:08,021 --> 01:12:10,028
It's truly appreciated.
1124
01:12:10,965 --> 01:12:13,137
Let's get the son of a bitch.
1125
01:12:14,357 --> 01:12:15,699
My pleasure.
1126
01:12:17,749 --> 01:12:19,756
The decision by the D.A.'s office...
1127
01:12:19,956 --> 01:12:23,753
...to re-open the 27-year-old murder
case of Byron De La Beckwith...
1128
01:12:23,956 --> 01:12:25,549
...continues to cause controversy.
1129
01:12:25,876 --> 01:12:28,690
Citizens of Jackson are concerned...
1130
01:12:28,883 --> 01:12:32,047
... that taxpayers' money is being
used to dig up the past.
1131
01:12:32,244 --> 01:12:35,822
The grand jury handed down an
indictment of Byron De La Beckwith...
1132
01:12:36,019 --> 01:12:38,888
...in the murder of
civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
1133
01:12:39,091 --> 01:12:40,552
Extradition in the Beckwith case...
1134
01:12:40,755 --> 01:12:43,853
...is seen as a stumbling
block for the D.A.'s office.
1135
01:12:44,050 --> 01:12:46,319
I plan to fight repossession--
What's the word?
1136
01:12:46,514 --> 01:12:49,547
Extradition tooth, nail and claw!
1137
01:12:50,066 --> 01:12:52,935
In an attempt to replace
a lost autopsy report...
1138
01:12:53,138 --> 01:12:56,749
... the D.A.'s office of Hinds County
today received permission...
1139
01:12:56,946 --> 01:12:58,953
...by the Evers family
to exhume the body...
1140
01:12:59,153 --> 01:13:02,448
...of slain civil rights leader
Medgar Evers.
1141
01:13:03,089 --> 01:13:06,471
The body, buried in
Arlington National Cemetery in 1963...
1142
01:13:06,672 --> 01:13:09,225
... was found in remarkably
near-perfect condition.
1143
01:13:13,168 --> 01:13:16,071
After 18 months, extradition was
finally granted...
1144
01:13:16,272 --> 01:13:18,159
...in the case
of Byron De La Beckwith...
1145
01:13:18,352 --> 01:13:22,061
... the man accused of slaying
civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
1146
01:13:23,087 --> 01:13:27,429
Beckwith will face murder charges
30 years after the initial two trials...
1147
01:13:27,630 --> 01:13:30,630
...for the same offense
ended in hung juries.
1148
01:13:30,831 --> 01:13:31,660
Thank you, son.
1149
01:13:31,951 --> 01:13:33,576
" I first received the call...
1150
01:13:33,775 --> 01:13:35,629
...at 9 :42 p. m...
1151
01:13:35,822 --> 01:13:39,367
...on the night of June 12, 1963.
1152
01:13:41,070 --> 01:13:43,590
My partner and I responded
and proceeded to the crime scene...
1153
01:13:43,790 --> 01:13:46,986
...Iocated at 2332 Guynes Street."
1154
01:13:47,309 --> 01:13:48,902
That's pretty good, Benny...
1155
01:13:49,101 --> 01:13:51,915
...but just because you read
the part of a dead witness...
1156
01:13:52,109 --> 01:13:54,891
...doesn't mean you have to
act like you're actually dead.
1157
01:13:55,085 --> 01:13:56,426
I'm doing my best.
1158
01:13:56,621 --> 01:13:58,028
I know you are.
1159
01:13:58,221 --> 01:14:00,609
Medgar Evers' autopsy report
just came in.
1160
01:14:01,228 --> 01:14:04,424
You're not gonna believe this.
He's still dead.
1161
01:14:04,876 --> 01:14:06,021
Thank you, Clara.
1162
01:14:06,220 --> 01:14:09,536
I got off the phone with Charles Evers.
He won't come to the trial.
1163
01:14:09,740 --> 01:14:10,536
Did he say why?
1164
01:14:10,731 --> 01:14:11,941
He wouldn't say.
1165
01:14:12,139 --> 01:14:14,343
Get me the address
of his radio station.
1166
01:14:14,539 --> 01:14:16,612
They found a bullet fragment
in the body.
1167
01:14:16,811 --> 01:14:19,233
It's consistent with a.30-06 Enfield.
1168
01:14:20,171 --> 01:14:23,945
You'll be sorry. What happened to
that nigger will happen to you.
1169
01:14:25,259 --> 01:14:26,055
Another one?
1170
01:14:27,818 --> 01:14:31,680
Closer we get to trial, the more
nutjobs will crawl out of the woodwork.
1171
01:14:32,842 --> 01:14:33,703
You got a gun?
1172
01:14:35,177 --> 01:14:36,737
Here. T ake this.
1173
01:14:37,257 --> 01:14:39,046
No, wait. T ake this.
1174
01:14:40,617 --> 01:14:42,144
T ake this.
1175
01:15:05,480 --> 01:15:08,775
That was Muddy Waters doing
his thing for y'all.
1176
01:15:08,968 --> 01:15:11,837
Now I'll play a little something
that goes way back.
1177
01:15:12,039 --> 01:15:14,886
The great Robert Johnson.
1178
01:15:19,142 --> 01:15:20,156
Mr. Evers?
1179
01:15:23,398 --> 01:15:25,765
-Hi, I'm--
-Bobby DeLaughter.
1180
01:15:27,142 --> 01:15:28,800
Please sit down.
1181
01:15:38,245 --> 01:15:39,521
Robert Johnson.
1182
01:15:40,004 --> 01:15:42,143
IKing of the Delta Blues.
1183
01:15:44,868 --> 01:15:47,104
-Thank you.
-You're welcome.
1184
01:15:49,572 --> 01:15:51,612
May your soul rise up to heaven...
1185
01:15:51,812 --> 01:15:54,178
...'fore the devil knows you're dead.
1186
01:16:00,418 --> 01:16:04,925
They say Robert Johnson sold his soul to
the devil to play the guitar like that.
1187
01:16:05,314 --> 01:16:06,175
What do you think?
1188
01:16:06,370 --> 01:16:10,493
If the devil wanted my soul, it'd cost
a lot more than some guitar lessons.
1189
01:16:13,602 --> 01:16:15,990
I believe after this trial's over...
1190
01:16:16,194 --> 01:16:18,528
...Mississippi come through this time.
1191
01:16:18,817 --> 01:16:21,567
That's why I came here
to talk with you, Mr. Evers.
1192
01:16:21,762 --> 01:16:25,470
Would you change your mind and come
to the trial? Your presence...
1193
01:16:25,665 --> 01:16:27,519
...would mean a great deal.
1194
01:16:29,280 --> 01:16:31,582
Let me tell you something.
1195
01:16:32,800 --> 01:16:35,189
Medgar was my baby brother.
1196
01:16:35,808 --> 01:16:38,459
There ain't nothing
I wouldn't do for him.
1197
01:16:39,487 --> 01:16:41,146
When we were little kids...
1198
01:16:41,343 --> 01:16:43,034
...we used to sleep in the same bed.
1199
01:16:43,231 --> 01:16:44,573
And on cold nights...
1200
01:16:44,767 --> 01:16:48,247
...I'd climb in first just so I could
warm up the sheets for him.
1201
01:16:50,719 --> 01:16:53,915
I didn't go to the first two trials.
1202
01:16:55,167 --> 01:16:56,629
Myrlie...
1203
01:16:57,278 --> 01:17:00,540
...a lot of people,
they criticized me for that.
1204
01:17:01,310 --> 01:17:03,830
But I won't go
to no third trial neither...
1205
01:17:04,829 --> 01:17:07,317
...and for the exact same reason.
1206
01:17:07,518 --> 01:17:11,379
I know if I ever got in the same room
with Byron De La Beckwith...
1207
01:17:11,581 --> 01:17:13,915
...as God is my witness...
1208
01:17:14,237 --> 01:17:17,585
...I'd wrap my hands around
his chicken neck and snap it in half.
1209
01:17:17,789 --> 01:17:19,447
And nobody...
1210
01:17:19,645 --> 01:17:21,499
...be able to stop me.
1211
01:17:23,101 --> 01:17:24,661
I wouldn't blame you.
1212
01:17:24,860 --> 01:17:26,038
Nobody hardly ever...
1213
01:17:26,237 --> 01:17:28,538
...remembers Medgar anymore.
1214
01:17:29,468 --> 01:17:31,257
Whites or blacks.
1215
01:17:31,899 --> 01:17:34,135
And that's a goddamn shame.
1216
01:17:34,843 --> 01:17:37,560
Because whatever rights
the black man has now...
1217
01:17:37,755 --> 01:17:40,951
...he's got because of something
called the Civil Rights Movement.
1218
01:17:41,146 --> 01:17:44,146
And for a long time here
in the state of Mississippi...
1219
01:17:44,634 --> 01:17:48,278
...before the television, newspapers,
back before the fancy speeches...
1220
01:17:48,474 --> 01:17:52,303
...my brother, Medgar, was
the Civil Rights Movement.
1221
01:17:57,721 --> 01:18:02,030
I'm sitting here tonight,
talking to my friend and your friend...
1222
01:18:02,233 --> 01:18:04,785
...Assistant District Attorney
Bobby DeLaughter.
1223
01:18:04,985 --> 01:18:07,985
We're talking about my brother,
Medgar Evers...
1224
01:18:08,184 --> 01:18:12,788
...and we're gonna play the blues
for Medgar all night long.
1225
01:18:22,872 --> 01:18:24,944
You and my sister-in-law...
1226
01:18:26,008 --> 01:18:27,862
...you get justice for my brother.
1227
01:18:37,238 --> 01:18:39,343
Devil, if you listening...
1228
01:18:39,574 --> 01:18:41,778
...I won't sell my soul
for no guitar lessons...
1229
01:18:41,974 --> 01:18:44,307
...but I'll sell my soul for that.
1230
01:18:48,757 --> 01:18:50,545
Are you surprised bail
was granted so quickly?
1231
01:18:50,741 --> 01:18:53,425
Mr. Beckwith was being held
as a political prisoner.
1232
01:18:53,621 --> 01:18:56,654
He's not been found guilty.
Why should he be kept in jail?
1233
01:18:57,973 --> 01:19:00,362
Mr. Scott, you're an officer
of the Nationalist Movement, correct?
1234
01:19:00,565 --> 01:19:02,801
Is that where the money came from
to secure his bond?
1235
01:19:02,996 --> 01:19:07,054
Mr. Beckwith has a lot of friends here.
We'll do whatever it takes.
1236
01:19:07,508 --> 01:19:11,566
Suppose he doesn't show for the trial?
Suppose he leaves the country?
1237
01:19:11,764 --> 01:19:13,738
If he runs, we'll find him.
1238
01:19:13,940 --> 01:19:15,597
How long will that take?
1239
01:19:15,795 --> 01:19:18,479
Another five years? Another 10?
1240
01:19:18,675 --> 01:19:22,537
I've already devoted a lifetime to this.
That ought to be enough.
1241
01:19:23,474 --> 01:19:25,896
Yes, ma'am. It sure ought to be.
1242
01:19:30,642 --> 01:19:32,202
I'm sorry, Bobby.
1243
01:19:33,265 --> 01:19:35,175
It's all right, Mrs. Evers.
1244
01:19:35,377 --> 01:19:36,806
It's quite all right.
1245
01:20:02,767 --> 01:20:05,222
-How's Jared doing?
-Fine.
1246
01:20:05,424 --> 01:20:08,554
He and Burt seem like
they've been brothers all their lives.
1247
01:20:08,751 --> 01:20:10,213
They all sleeping?
1248
01:20:11,823 --> 01:20:13,961
And that's what you should be doing.
1249
01:20:14,767 --> 01:20:16,871
I want the opening statement
to be great.
1250
01:20:17,614 --> 01:20:19,915
It was great when you read
it three nights ago.
1251
01:20:20,110 --> 01:20:21,965
Unless you snuck in something about...
1252
01:20:22,158 --> 01:20:24,166
...Beckwith deserving
the Nobel Peace Prize...
1253
01:20:24,366 --> 01:20:26,504
...I'm sure it'll be great
tomorrow morning.
1254
01:20:26,702 --> 01:20:29,123
You see? That's why I look to you.
1255
01:20:29,326 --> 01:20:32,642
Eliminate Nobel Peace Prize reference.
1256
01:20:32,845 --> 01:20:34,252
That's good.
1257
01:20:36,493 --> 01:20:40,584
I left a gift for you in appreciation
for everything you're doing...
1258
01:20:40,780 --> 01:20:42,569
... to ruin civilized society.
1259
01:20:42,764 --> 01:20:45,863
-What the hell is this?
-It's scheduled to go off at 10 p.m.
1260
01:20:46,059 --> 01:20:47,969
You have a nice night.
1261
01:20:52,299 --> 01:20:53,096
It's a bomb.
1262
01:20:57,899 --> 01:20:59,622
Everybody, get up.
Let's go.
1263
01:20:59,819 --> 01:21:01,127
What's going on?
1264
01:21:01,322 --> 01:21:05,064
It's nothing at all. Outside that door.
A little drill is all.
1265
01:21:05,258 --> 01:21:06,785
Head for the front door.
1266
01:21:39,528 --> 01:21:41,600
Is this still the drill?
1267
01:21:54,183 --> 01:21:55,677
Where are we going, Dad?
1268
01:21:55,878 --> 01:21:57,918
Told you we're going
to the Holiday Inn.
1269
01:21:58,118 --> 01:22:00,452
Is that where we're going?
The Holiday Inn?
1270
01:22:00,646 --> 01:22:01,507
That's right.
1271
01:22:01,701 --> 01:22:05,858
We haven't found anything,
but we'll go through it one more time.
1272
01:22:06,053 --> 01:22:07,809
I appreciate that.
1273
01:22:27,236 --> 01:22:31,643
I told them if anything ever happened,
all they had to do was walk away.
1274
01:22:33,731 --> 01:22:36,764
How're they supposed to walk away
from a bomb?
1275
01:22:41,539 --> 01:22:43,393
There wasn't a bomb.
1276
01:22:45,826 --> 01:22:47,233
This time.
1277
01:22:50,626 --> 01:22:53,375
If you want to give this thing up,
I understand.
1278
01:22:53,570 --> 01:22:56,952
No one could fault you. But the world
isn't going to be any safer.
1279
01:22:57,154 --> 01:22:59,903
I don't give a shit about the world.
These are my children.
1280
01:23:00,097 --> 01:23:01,373
Yes, they are.
1281
01:23:01,569 --> 01:23:03,957
Someday they'll be able
to tell their children...
1282
01:23:04,161 --> 01:23:06,779
...that their daddy put away
Medgar Evers' killer.
1283
01:23:07,328 --> 01:23:10,143
Medgar Evers was a fool,
and my daddy was right.
1284
01:23:10,337 --> 01:23:12,541
Doesn't matter how many
civil rights laws you pass.
1285
01:23:12,736 --> 01:23:14,940
You'll never legislate
how people think.
1286
01:23:15,136 --> 01:23:17,689
There are always gonna be
a few misguided people.
1287
01:23:17,887 --> 01:23:21,815
I'm not talking about a few people.
I'm talking about everybody, about us.
1288
01:23:22,015 --> 01:23:24,382
Do we have one single
black friend? No.
1289
01:23:24,575 --> 01:23:26,942
We don't have dinner with them
or have them over.
1290
01:23:27,135 --> 01:23:28,695
We don't sit with them in church.
1291
01:23:28,895 --> 01:23:31,578
You think this one trial will
magically change this?
1292
01:23:31,807 --> 01:23:33,400
No, I don't.
1293
01:23:33,854 --> 01:23:35,316
It's a step.
1294
01:23:36,030 --> 01:23:37,972
That's all anyone can do
is take a step.
1295
01:23:38,174 --> 01:23:40,214
Why do I have to take that step?
1296
01:23:40,414 --> 01:23:43,228
So some sick son of a bitch
can murder my wife and kids?
1297
01:23:43,422 --> 01:23:45,974
Excuse me if I'm not interested
in taking that step.
1298
01:23:46,173 --> 01:23:47,318
Where are you going?
1299
01:23:47,518 --> 01:23:49,209
For a drive.
1300
01:25:56,051 --> 01:26:00,241
" I don't know if I'm going to heaven
or hell, but I'm going from Jackson."
1301
01:26:03,154 --> 01:26:07,627
We're on record in the matter
of Mississippi v. Byron De La Beckwith.
1302
01:26:07,826 --> 01:26:09,866
Does prosecution have
its opening statement?
1303
01:26:11,314 --> 01:26:12,242
We do, Your Honor.
1304
01:26:18,225 --> 01:26:20,014
Ladies and gentlemen...
1305
01:26:20,209 --> 01:26:22,599
...this is a very simple case.
1306
01:26:24,497 --> 01:26:27,050
It's about a man whose life
was snuffed out...
1307
01:26:27,248 --> 01:26:30,477
...on June the 12th of 1963...
1308
01:26:31,056 --> 01:26:33,674
...by a bullet that tore
through his body.
1309
01:26:34,288 --> 01:26:37,103
A bullet aimed out of prejudice...
1310
01:26:37,296 --> 01:26:39,084
...propelled by hatred...
1311
01:26:39,279 --> 01:26:42,574
...and fired by
a back-shooting coward...
1312
01:26:43,663 --> 01:26:45,288
...from ambush...
1313
01:26:46,382 --> 01:26:47,430
...at night.
1314
01:26:47,950 --> 01:26:52,587
The evidence will overwhelmingly show
that Byron De La Beckwith...
1315
01:26:53,039 --> 01:26:56,334
...a self-proclaimed, rabid racist
on a lifelong mission...
1316
01:26:56,527 --> 01:26:59,210
...to purge society
of anyone and anything...
1317
01:26:59,407 --> 01:27:00,967
...that stood for integration...
1318
01:27:01,166 --> 01:27:03,587
...is the man that fired that bullet.
1319
01:27:04,141 --> 01:27:07,273
Evidence will show how, when he
thought he beat the system...
1320
01:27:07,469 --> 01:27:09,957
...he bragged about what he'd done.
1321
01:27:10,957 --> 01:27:14,186
Bragged about getting
away with murder.
1322
01:27:16,173 --> 01:27:20,134
The evidence will undeniably show that
the person who pulled the trigger...
1323
01:27:20,332 --> 01:27:24,194
...and ended the life of Medgar Evers
is this defendant...
1324
01:27:25,004 --> 01:27:26,978
...Byron De La Beckwith.
1325
01:27:31,307 --> 01:27:32,714
Mr. Coxwell?
1326
01:27:33,708 --> 01:27:35,234
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
1327
01:27:35,659 --> 01:27:39,237
My name is Merrida Coxwell.
This is James Kitchens...
1328
01:27:39,434 --> 01:27:42,533
...and we are representing
Mr. Beckwith.
1329
01:27:43,115 --> 01:27:45,733
Mr. DeLaughter started
his opening statement...
1330
01:27:45,930 --> 01:27:48,778
...by saying that this was
a very simple case.
1331
01:27:48,971 --> 01:27:50,377
I agree with him.
1332
01:27:50,634 --> 01:27:54,463
But what Mr. DeLaughter is going
to rely on is for you...
1333
01:27:54,666 --> 01:27:59,073
...to convict Mr. Beckwith
simply because of his opinions.
1334
01:27:59,657 --> 01:28:00,769
That's because...
1335
01:28:00,969 --> 01:28:05,246
...he knows that the state cannot prove
to you beyond a reasonable doubt...
1336
01:28:05,448 --> 01:28:07,903
...that the defendant committed
the crime.
1337
01:28:08,105 --> 01:28:10,341
By the time this trial is over...
1338
01:28:10,537 --> 01:28:14,049
...you will have seen it was
physically impossible...
1339
01:28:14,248 --> 01:28:17,215
...for Mr. Byron De La Beckwith
to have killed Medgar Evers.
1340
01:28:17,543 --> 01:28:19,845
Mr. Beckwith is not guilty.
1341
01:28:20,040 --> 01:28:22,276
That's what the proof will show.
1342
01:28:22,855 --> 01:28:24,033
Thank you.
1343
01:28:25,862 --> 01:28:27,772
The state may call its first witness.
1344
01:28:28,998 --> 01:28:31,387
The state calls Myrlie Evers.
1345
01:28:43,845 --> 01:28:45,154
Raise your right hand.
1346
01:28:45,350 --> 01:28:47,292
Do you swear to tell the truth...
1347
01:28:47,493 --> 01:28:50,144
-...the whole truth, so help you God?
-I do.
1348
01:28:50,405 --> 01:28:51,649
Be seated.
1349
01:28:57,637 --> 01:28:59,328
Will you tell us your name?
1350
01:28:59,876 --> 01:29:01,883
My name is Myrlie Evers.
1351
01:29:02,083 --> 01:29:05,051
Going back to 1963,
were you married at that time?
1352
01:29:05,252 --> 01:29:06,626
Yes, I was.
1353
01:29:06,820 --> 01:29:08,576
And to whom were you married?
1354
01:29:11,203 --> 01:29:12,992
Medgar Wylie...
1355
01:29:13,188 --> 01:29:14,616
...Evers.
1356
01:29:20,675 --> 01:29:23,544
When was the last time
you saw your husband alive?
1357
01:29:24,386 --> 01:29:26,972
June 11, 1963.
1358
01:29:28,578 --> 01:29:30,553
I'd fallen behind...
1359
01:29:30,754 --> 01:29:33,787
...in my housework
and got up early that morning...
1360
01:29:34,050 --> 01:29:36,439
...to iron some shirts for Medgar.
1361
01:29:37,761 --> 01:29:39,190
By the time he woke...
1362
01:29:39,393 --> 01:29:43,550
...I had 10 freshly ironed shirts
neatly hung on hangers.
1363
01:29:45,025 --> 01:29:48,156
He said, "I thank you
for ironing these shirts...
1364
01:29:48,352 --> 01:29:50,043
...but I'm not going to need them."
1365
01:29:51,424 --> 01:29:55,253
Before he left for work that morning,
he kissed us all goodbye...
1366
01:29:55,648 --> 01:29:57,470
...and then left.
1367
01:29:58,783 --> 01:30:00,310
But then he came back...
1368
01:30:00,512 --> 01:30:02,519
...and took me aside.
1369
01:30:02,912 --> 01:30:05,301
He said, "If anything
should happen to me...
1370
01:30:05,503 --> 01:30:07,477
...I want you to promise me...
1371
01:30:07,679 --> 01:30:10,264
...you will take care of my babies."
1372
01:30:11,166 --> 01:30:14,395
I said, "Of course.
They're my babies too."
1373
01:30:16,734 --> 01:30:20,182
He then kissed us all
goodbye again and left.
1374
01:30:23,070 --> 01:30:25,372
Could you tell the jury
what you remember...
1375
01:30:25,565 --> 01:30:29,362
...seeing and hearing when your husband
returned home that night?
1376
01:30:30,013 --> 01:30:33,396
It was just after midnight
when he got home.
1377
01:30:34,205 --> 01:30:35,960
We heard the car.
1378
01:30:44,060 --> 01:30:46,427
And then there was...
1379
01:30:50,587 --> 01:30:53,075
...this horrible blast.
1380
01:30:55,515 --> 01:30:57,075
The children...
1381
01:30:57,755 --> 01:31:00,853
...fell to the floor
as their father had taught them.
1382
01:31:01,819 --> 01:31:04,274
I bolted to the front door.
1383
01:31:05,595 --> 01:31:08,344
Medgar was lying in the carport.
1384
01:31:09,530 --> 01:31:11,952
He still had his keys in his hand.
1385
01:31:14,074 --> 01:31:16,343
Blood everywhere.
1386
01:31:18,009 --> 01:31:20,529
The children came out
shortly after I did...
1387
01:31:20,729 --> 01:31:22,517
...and they were screaming...
1388
01:31:23,481 --> 01:31:24,594
... "Daddy!
1389
01:31:25,592 --> 01:31:27,054
Daddy, get up!
1390
01:31:28,793 --> 01:31:30,680
Daddy, please get up."
1391
01:31:34,136 --> 01:31:36,918
But I knew he would
never get up again.
1392
01:31:41,719 --> 01:31:43,542
Nothing further, Your Honor.
1393
01:31:45,559 --> 01:31:50,415
Mr. McIntyre, have you ever owned
a 1917 Enfield.30-06 rifle?
1394
01:31:51,190 --> 01:31:52,335
Yes, I have.
1395
01:31:52,535 --> 01:31:55,153
Did you own that rifle in 1963?
1396
01:31:56,054 --> 01:32:00,658
Sometime, I believe in 1960,
I traded it to Mr. Beckwith.
1397
01:32:00,918 --> 01:32:04,813
Mr. McIntyre, I want to show you
this firearm and ask if you would...
1398
01:32:05,014 --> 01:32:08,112
...read the serial number
on the barrel, please.
1399
01:32:08,789 --> 01:32:12,564
1-0-5-2-6-8-2.
1400
01:32:12,757 --> 01:32:16,651
Thank you. Going back to exhibit 35,
would you read the serial number...
1401
01:32:16,853 --> 01:32:19,219
...on the invoice of the gun
that you purchased...
1402
01:32:19,413 --> 01:32:21,387
...and later traded to Mr. Beckwith?
1403
01:32:21,589 --> 01:32:25,102
1-0-5-2-6-8-2.
1404
01:32:25,587 --> 01:32:29,777
Ms. Holder, were you at Joe's Drive-In
on the night of June 11, 1963?
1405
01:32:29,972 --> 01:32:31,052
Yes, sir.
1406
01:32:31,251 --> 01:32:34,829
I wasn't working, but I was there
hanging out with my friends.
1407
01:32:35,315 --> 01:32:38,314
T ell the jury if there came
a time when your attention...
1408
01:32:38,515 --> 01:32:40,904
...was directed towards
any particular automobile.
1409
01:32:42,834 --> 01:32:45,452
Being a carhop, you notice cars.
1410
01:32:45,650 --> 01:32:48,683
This one had a long antenna
on the side of it.
1411
01:32:48,881 --> 01:32:51,216
We thought at first
it was a patrol car.
1412
01:32:51,826 --> 01:32:54,673
It was white and it had
a lot of mud on it.
1413
01:32:55,665 --> 01:32:57,389
It was a Plymouth Valiant.
1414
01:32:57,585 --> 01:33:02,156
Mr. Hargrove, were you employed by the
Jackson Police Department in June 1963?
1415
01:33:02,353 --> 01:33:04,011
Yes, I was.
1416
01:33:04,209 --> 01:33:07,786
In charge of the ldentification Division
for 42 years.
1417
01:33:07,984 --> 01:33:10,984
Did you reach a conclusion
as to whose fingerprint...
1418
01:33:11,184 --> 01:33:13,518
...was on the telescopic side
of the gun...
1419
01:33:13,712 --> 01:33:17,803
...recovered in your presence
on June 12, 1963?
1420
01:33:18,128 --> 01:33:19,338
Yes, sir. I did.
1421
01:33:19,536 --> 01:33:22,699
With 14 points of identification,
there's more than enough...
1422
01:33:22,895 --> 01:33:26,091
...to identify the fingerprint
of Mr. Byron De La Beckwith.
1423
01:33:26,383 --> 01:33:30,474
After four days of testimony in the
trial of white supremacist Beckwith...
1424
01:33:30,670 --> 01:33:33,932
...the prosecution, thus far, has
presented essentially the same case...
1425
01:33:34,126 --> 01:33:35,370
...as was offered up
in the two original trials.
1426
01:33:37,230 --> 01:33:40,229
However, this time there are
two significant differences.
1427
01:33:40,430 --> 01:33:42,405
First, the makeup of the jury.
1428
01:33:42,606 --> 01:33:46,566
In 1964, Beckwith faced
two all-male, all-white juries.
1429
01:33:46,766 --> 01:33:50,246
Today, he faces a jury made up
of eight blacks and four whites.
1430
01:33:50,445 --> 01:33:54,405
Tomorrow the prosecution is expected
to introduce three new witnesses...
1431
01:33:54,605 --> 01:33:57,158
... who did not testify
in the first two trials.
1432
01:33:59,245 --> 01:34:01,154
State your name for the record.
1433
01:34:01,356 --> 01:34:02,730
Delmar Dennis.
1434
01:34:02,924 --> 01:34:05,226
Mr. Dennis, in March of 1964...
1435
01:34:05,419 --> 01:34:07,459
...were you a member
of an organization known as...
1436
01:34:07,659 --> 01:34:09,481
...the White Knights
of the Ku Klux Klan?
1437
01:34:09,675 --> 01:34:10,755
I was.
1438
01:34:10,956 --> 01:34:12,417
In September of that year...
1439
01:34:12,619 --> 01:34:15,401
...did you become
a paid informant for the FBl?
1440
01:34:15,595 --> 01:34:16,805
I did.
1441
01:34:17,003 --> 01:34:18,825
And in your capacity as informant...
1442
01:34:19,018 --> 01:34:22,466
...did you ever encounter
the defendant, Byron De La Beckwith?
1443
01:34:23,147 --> 01:34:24,423
I did.
1444
01:34:25,386 --> 01:34:27,720
What were the circumstances
of that encounter?
1445
01:34:28,426 --> 01:34:31,425
On August 8, 1965,
I met Mr. Beckwith...
1446
01:34:31,626 --> 01:34:33,731
...at a Klan meeting
in Byram, Mississippi.
1447
01:34:33,993 --> 01:34:35,936
He was a featured speaker that night.
1448
01:34:36,745 --> 01:34:40,127
Now, during that talk, would you tell
the jury what, if anything...
1449
01:34:40,330 --> 01:34:44,639
...the defendant said about the murder
or shooting death of Medgar Evers.
1450
01:34:46,056 --> 01:34:48,904
He said, "Killing that nigger gave me
no more inner discomfort...
1451
01:34:49,096 --> 01:34:52,063
...than our wives endure
giving birth to our children.
1452
01:34:52,264 --> 01:34:54,086
We gotta kill those enemies...
1453
01:34:54,280 --> 01:34:57,149
...including the President,
from the top down."
1454
01:34:57,640 --> 01:34:59,069
Did he say anything else?
1455
01:34:59,368 --> 01:35:00,448
Yes, sir.
1456
01:35:00,647 --> 01:35:03,614
He said, "You're gonna get away
with it like I did."
1457
01:35:04,647 --> 01:35:06,403
Thank you, Mr. Dennis.
1458
01:35:06,727 --> 01:35:07,588
Your witness.
1459
01:35:11,718 --> 01:35:14,435
You have seen FBl reports
about your activities...
1460
01:35:14,630 --> 01:35:16,540
...as a paid informant, haven't you?
1461
01:35:17,062 --> 01:35:19,396
Mr. DeLaughter's office
furnished me with copies.
1462
01:35:19,590 --> 01:35:20,637
In fact, there are...
1463
01:35:20,838 --> 01:35:22,910
...pages and pages of dialogue...
1464
01:35:23,110 --> 01:35:25,444
...that you reported
to the FBl of things...
1465
01:35:25,701 --> 01:35:28,286
...that various people said
over lunch, over dinner...
1466
01:35:28,485 --> 01:35:31,834
...riding in cars, meetings.
Isn't that right?
1467
01:35:33,157 --> 01:35:36,059
Yet, nowhere in all those reports...
1468
01:35:36,260 --> 01:35:40,002
...does the quotation that you
attributed to Mr. Beckwith appear.
1469
01:35:40,197 --> 01:35:41,441
Does it?
1470
01:35:42,340 --> 01:35:44,642
Maybe the pages got lost
over the years.
1471
01:35:44,836 --> 01:35:46,843
And maybe they never existed.
1472
01:35:47,044 --> 01:35:47,937
Objection.
1473
01:35:48,132 --> 01:35:49,058
Sustained.
1474
01:35:49,476 --> 01:35:51,264
Dog ate my homework.
1475
01:35:52,260 --> 01:35:54,714
Mr. Dennis, did Byron De La Beckwith...
1476
01:35:54,915 --> 01:35:58,297
...ever specifically say
that he killed Medgar Evers?
1477
01:35:59,875 --> 01:36:02,657
He never said, "I killed
Medgar Evers. "That's true.
1478
01:36:02,850 --> 01:36:03,897
No further questions.
1479
01:36:04,098 --> 01:36:05,527
That's what he meant.
1480
01:36:05,730 --> 01:36:09,025
We ask that the witness's unsolicited
opinion be stricken...
1481
01:36:09,282 --> 01:36:11,421
...and that the jury disregard it.
1482
01:36:12,129 --> 01:36:15,740
The jury will disregard
Mr. Dennis' last statement.
1483
01:36:16,833 --> 01:36:21,088
I was standing out in the yard,
and he said something to me about...
1484
01:36:21,281 --> 01:36:24,576
...having been tried twice
in Mississippi...
1485
01:36:24,801 --> 01:36:26,295
...for "killing that nigger."
1486
01:36:26,496 --> 01:36:28,057
And what'd he say about that?
1487
01:36:28,256 --> 01:36:29,336
He said...
1488
01:36:30,240 --> 01:36:32,662
... "I had a job to do and I did it."
1489
01:36:33,024 --> 01:36:35,512
Thank you, Mr. Prince.
Nothing further.
1490
01:36:38,176 --> 01:36:41,950
Back in 1986, when Mr. Beckwith
allegedly made this statement to you...
1491
01:36:42,143 --> 01:36:45,012
...you went straight
to the authorities, didn't you?
1492
01:36:46,143 --> 01:36:48,564
Well, you must've told
some of your buddies.
1493
01:36:49,695 --> 01:36:52,542
You didn't tell anybody you were
renting a house from a man...
1494
01:36:52,735 --> 01:36:55,036
...who admitted to you
that he'd killed somebody?
1495
01:36:55,294 --> 01:36:57,530
I didn't at that time, no.
1496
01:36:58,110 --> 01:37:00,793
Mr. and Mrs. Beckwith had you
thrown out of the house...
1497
01:37:00,990 --> 01:37:03,193
...because you had
a drinking problem, right?
1498
01:37:06,845 --> 01:37:09,211
I had a drinking problem...
1499
01:37:09,853 --> 01:37:11,282
...but that's not why they--
1500
01:37:11,485 --> 01:37:15,129
You don't particularly like Mr. Beckwith
for throwing you out, do you?
1501
01:37:17,085 --> 01:37:18,361
Mrs. Morgan...
1502
01:37:18,556 --> 01:37:22,353
...when you lived in Greenwood,
Mississippi in the early 1970s...
1503
01:37:22,556 --> 01:37:26,331
...did you and your husband give
the defendant a ride to Parchman Prison?
1504
01:37:26,555 --> 01:37:27,449
Yes, sir.
1505
01:37:27,644 --> 01:37:30,939
Me and my husband, Lloyd, was going
to see Lloyd's brother...
1506
01:37:31,132 --> 01:37:32,473
...Jimmy Dale Morgan...
1507
01:37:32,667 --> 01:37:36,147
...and Mr. Beckwith was going to see
some friend of his...
1508
01:37:36,348 --> 01:37:38,420
...whose name he wouldn't tell us.
1509
01:37:38,747 --> 01:37:42,227
During that time, did he make
any statements concerning the murder...
1510
01:37:42,426 --> 01:37:43,833
...of Medgar Evers?
1511
01:37:44,442 --> 01:37:45,271
Yes, sir.
1512
01:37:45,466 --> 01:37:49,394
He said that he had killed
Medgar Evers, a nigger...
1513
01:37:49,594 --> 01:37:53,849
...and said we'd better not say anything
about us driving him up to Parchman...
1514
01:37:54,041 --> 01:37:56,692
...because he wasn't scared
to kill again.
1515
01:37:57,146 --> 01:37:58,290
Thank you, Mrs. Morgan.
1516
01:38:04,761 --> 01:38:07,215
You have had some
very traumatic things...
1517
01:38:07,417 --> 01:38:09,457
...happen to you in your life,
haven't you?
1518
01:38:09,785 --> 01:38:11,126
Most definitely.
1519
01:38:11,320 --> 01:38:12,880
Your estranged husband...
1520
01:38:13,080 --> 01:38:15,600
...Lloyd Morgan, was
very abusive to you.
1521
01:38:15,800 --> 01:38:17,742
Objection. Irrelevant.
1522
01:38:18,487 --> 01:38:20,342
Where are you going with this?
1523
01:38:20,535 --> 01:38:21,844
If you'll allow me...
1524
01:38:22,039 --> 01:38:25,967
...this line of questioning speaks
directly to this witness's credibility.
1525
01:38:26,647 --> 01:38:27,595
Overruled.
1526
01:38:32,759 --> 01:38:34,831
Your husband, you told us...
1527
01:38:35,030 --> 01:38:39,220
...carried on an incestuous
relationship with one of his children.
1528
01:38:39,734 --> 01:38:41,141
Yes, he did.
1529
01:38:41,334 --> 01:38:42,959
And your father...
1530
01:38:43,158 --> 01:38:46,256
...was very abusive to you
when you were a child.
1531
01:38:47,125 --> 01:38:48,369
Yes, sir.
1532
01:38:48,597 --> 01:38:49,807
And as a result...
1533
01:38:50,069 --> 01:38:51,345
...of all this...
1534
01:38:51,573 --> 01:38:54,388
...you have been diagnosed
by psychiatrists...
1535
01:38:54,581 --> 01:38:56,686
...as having an anxiety disorder.
1536
01:38:57,748 --> 01:38:59,657
Yes, sir, I have.
1537
01:39:01,269 --> 01:39:03,123
I have nothing further.
1538
01:39:04,468 --> 01:39:08,079
If this jury wants to believe
a lying drunk, a paid informant...
1539
01:39:08,276 --> 01:39:09,737
...and a damn loony bird...
1540
01:39:09,940 --> 01:39:11,849
...then I might be
in a bit of trouble.
1541
01:39:12,051 --> 01:39:13,480
But not as much trouble
as our beloved justice system.
1542
01:39:15,347 --> 01:39:18,729
And this Prince fella
still owes me $ 64 worth of rent.
1543
01:39:18,931 --> 01:39:21,647
How do you account for
the matching numbers on the gun?
1544
01:39:21,842 --> 01:39:25,158
My rifle was stolen days
before this nigger turned up dead.
1545
01:39:25,363 --> 01:39:26,955
Turn those lights off.
1546
01:39:27,922 --> 01:39:30,791
Mom, how can you stand
watching this idiot?
1547
01:39:30,993 --> 01:39:32,455
When your father died...
1548
01:39:32,657 --> 01:39:35,079
...I carried around
such hatred for that man...
1549
01:39:35,281 --> 01:39:38,412
... I actually made inquiries
into having him killed.
1550
01:39:39,249 --> 01:39:42,216
But in time, I was able
to let that hatred go.
1551
01:39:42,417 --> 01:39:43,791
I don't know how.
1552
01:39:43,985 --> 01:39:47,246
I remembered something
your father once said to me.
1553
01:39:47,441 --> 01:39:51,369
He said, "When you hate,
the only person who suffers is you.
1554
01:39:51,568 --> 01:39:53,357
Because most of the people you hate...
1555
01:39:53,552 --> 01:39:56,520
...don't know it
and the others don't care."
1556
01:39:56,912 --> 01:39:59,694
The big question here is
will Beckwith testify...
1557
01:39:59,887 --> 01:40:03,531
...as he did so confidently
back in 1964?
1558
01:40:06,255 --> 01:40:09,037
Everybody wants to see
the Byron De La Beckwith Show.
1559
01:40:09,230 --> 01:40:10,986
What if putting him on is too risky?
1560
01:40:11,183 --> 01:40:12,808
You kidding? He'll wanna tell
that cock-and-bull story...
1561
01:40:14,319 --> 01:40:17,035
...about his gun being stolen
two days before the murder.
1562
01:40:17,230 --> 01:40:20,972
Besides, this is Byron De La Beckwith
we're talking about.
1563
01:40:21,166 --> 01:40:23,435
Summoned from his mountain
by God Almighty...
1564
01:40:23,629 --> 01:40:25,996
...to give us
the word according to Delay.
1565
01:40:27,054 --> 01:40:28,232
He'll testify.
1566
01:40:28,622 --> 01:40:30,050
I'll see you upstairs.
1567
01:40:47,627 --> 01:40:50,441
Something happen to you in your boyhood
make you mean-spirited...
1568
01:40:50,636 --> 01:40:52,392
...enough to turn on your own?
1569
01:40:52,587 --> 01:40:56,962
Do what the good Lord and Mississippi
got every right to expect you to do.
1570
01:40:57,611 --> 01:40:58,407
Which is?
1571
01:40:58,603 --> 01:41:02,694
Putting niggers away for killing white
people instead of the other way around.
1572
01:41:02,890 --> 01:41:07,080
Mr. Peters and y'all should be run out
of this state for this foolishness...
1573
01:41:07,274 --> 01:41:08,801
...and y'all probably will be.
1574
01:41:10,026 --> 01:41:13,986
This is not some deer you brought down.
This is a human being.
1575
01:41:14,186 --> 01:41:17,895
A deer, Mr. DeLaughter,
is a beautiful animal.
1576
01:41:18,090 --> 01:41:19,584
It's one of God's creatures.
1577
01:41:19,785 --> 01:41:22,468
I would never kill a deer.
1578
01:41:22,600 --> 01:41:25,829
A nigger, on the other hand,
that's another matter entirely.
1579
01:41:26,185 --> 01:41:28,486
Are you standing here
admitting to me that you--
1580
01:41:28,840 --> 01:41:30,499
IKilled Medgar Evers?
1581
01:41:30,696 --> 01:41:32,289
What if I did?
1582
01:41:32,712 --> 01:41:36,061
It's not like there's anything you
nor anybody else can do about it.
1583
01:41:36,264 --> 01:41:37,311
Is there?
1584
01:41:38,151 --> 01:41:39,231
We'll see about that.
1585
01:41:39,431 --> 01:41:41,024
Oh, that we will.
1586
01:41:41,224 --> 01:41:42,784
That we will.
1587
01:41:44,711 --> 01:41:47,362
You know, it only takes
but one of them, doesn't it?
1588
01:41:47,783 --> 01:41:49,343
The question is...
1589
01:41:49,543 --> 01:41:50,786
...which one will it be?
1590
01:41:51,494 --> 01:41:54,211
Maybe that chubby white gal
who'd be sorely vexed...
1591
01:41:54,407 --> 01:41:58,629
...to let one of her own kind be
put away, no matter what she told you.
1592
01:41:59,046 --> 01:42:00,802
Or maybe that old nigger minister...
1593
01:42:00,997 --> 01:42:05,056
...who won't want sending a sick
old man to prison on his conscience.
1594
01:42:05,445 --> 01:42:10,180
You ain't never gonna get 12 people
to convict me of killing a nigger...
1595
01:42:10,405 --> 01:42:12,293
...in the state of Mississippi.
1596
01:42:12,485 --> 01:42:15,485
No, sir. Hell, I don't even have
to take the stand.
1597
01:42:15,685 --> 01:42:19,230
Couple more days, I'll be heading back
to my home in T ennessee...
1598
01:42:19,492 --> 01:42:21,347
...where I will sit on my porch...
1599
01:42:21,540 --> 01:42:25,119
...and live out my days
in peace and prosperity.
1600
01:42:25,764 --> 01:42:27,389
What are you gonna do?
1601
01:42:30,660 --> 01:42:32,285
What are you gonna do?
1602
01:42:32,771 --> 01:42:35,160
" Free at last, free at last.
1603
01:42:35,363 --> 01:42:38,210
Great God Almighty, I'm free at last!"
1604
01:42:41,891 --> 01:42:43,745
The defense calls James Holley.
1605
01:42:46,722 --> 01:42:48,664
Relax. He's just needling you.
1606
01:42:50,018 --> 01:42:50,400
He'll testify.
1607
01:42:52,994 --> 01:42:54,368
Raise your right hand.
1608
01:42:54,562 --> 01:42:58,620
You swear the testimony you'll give
is the whole truth, so help you God?
1609
01:42:58,817 --> 01:43:00,705
-I do.
-Be seated.
1610
01:43:02,945 --> 01:43:07,222
Mr. Holley, did you have a personal
relationship with the defendant?
1611
01:43:07,424 --> 01:43:11,036
No, sir. None whatsoever.
I just kind of knew who he was.
1612
01:43:11,232 --> 01:43:14,199
Mr. Holley, in the early morning
of June 12th, 1963...
1613
01:43:14,399 --> 01:43:16,734
...did you have occasion
to see Mr. Beckwith?
1614
01:43:17,599 --> 01:43:19,771
He was standing outside
at a Shell station...
1615
01:43:19,967 --> 01:43:22,389
...while the attendant was
putting gas in his car.
1616
01:43:22,687 --> 01:43:24,759
T ell the jury what time
you saw him.
1617
01:43:25,407 --> 01:43:27,928
At approximately 1:03 in the morning.
1618
01:43:28,639 --> 01:43:31,803
About how many miles is it
from Greenwood to Jackson?
1619
01:43:32,286 --> 01:43:36,148
Must be around 90, 95 miles.
1620
01:43:36,351 --> 01:43:39,667
So you saw the defendant
less than an hour after the murder...
1621
01:43:39,869 --> 01:43:44,376
...calmly standing by his car some 95
miles away from the scene of the crime?
1622
01:43:47,069 --> 01:43:48,793
I have nothing further.
1623
01:43:53,629 --> 01:43:54,708
Mr. Holley...
1624
01:43:54,909 --> 01:43:57,243
...on the night you say you saw...
1625
01:43:57,469 --> 01:44:00,119
...Byron De La Beckwith
in Greenwood....
1626
01:44:00,509 --> 01:44:03,192
Delay, as you call him, I believe.
Is that right?
1627
01:44:03,388 --> 01:44:04,730
Delay Beckwith, yes, sir.
1628
01:44:04,923 --> 01:44:08,272
Why do you call him Delay?
Are y'all first-name buddies?
1629
01:44:08,476 --> 01:44:11,858
No, sir. I call him Mr. Beckwith
most of the time.
1630
01:44:13,403 --> 01:44:14,386
We just noted...
1631
01:44:14,587 --> 01:44:16,889
... "Delay's car"
and "Delay and the attendant."
1632
01:44:17,083 --> 01:44:20,149
Isn't that exactly what you told
me and my investigators...
1633
01:44:20,347 --> 01:44:22,834
...when we asked what you were
doing that night?
1634
01:44:24,186 --> 01:44:25,462
"Delay."
1635
01:44:26,106 --> 01:44:27,316
Your buddy.
1636
01:44:27,514 --> 01:44:28,975
My friend.
1637
01:44:29,562 --> 01:44:31,864
And how long has he been your friend?
1638
01:44:33,082 --> 01:44:35,864
-Just shortly after World War ll.
-When you said...
1639
01:44:36,057 --> 01:44:40,083
...you had no personal relationship
with him, that wasn't entirely true.
1640
01:44:40,282 --> 01:44:44,023
You've known him a long time and been
friends a long time, right?
1641
01:44:44,217 --> 01:44:46,224
Well, sure, we're friends.
1642
01:44:46,425 --> 01:44:48,497
Just like I hope
you and I are friends.
1643
01:44:50,681 --> 01:44:51,476
Pardon?
1644
01:44:51,703 --> 01:44:54,769
I said just like I would hope
you and I are friends.
1645
01:44:56,055 --> 01:44:57,462
I'm flattered.
1646
01:44:59,928 --> 01:45:01,422
Let me ask you this.
1647
01:45:01,975 --> 01:45:03,982
At the time the defendant
was arrested...
1648
01:45:04,183 --> 01:45:06,735
...there were a whole lot
of law enforcement people...
1649
01:45:06,935 --> 01:45:09,302
...trying to gather
information, am I right?
1650
01:45:09,495 --> 01:45:11,152
FBl, Jackson Police.
1651
01:45:11,351 --> 01:45:12,660
Do you remember that?
1652
01:45:13,174 --> 01:45:14,221
Did you speak to...
1653
01:45:14,422 --> 01:45:16,975
...Detective Sanders,
one of the investigators?
1654
01:45:17,494 --> 01:45:19,217
I might've spoken a word with him.
1655
01:45:19,478 --> 01:45:23,701
Then you told him you saw Beckwith
in Greenwood the night of the killing.
1656
01:45:23,893 --> 01:45:25,267
-ls that right?
-I did not.
1657
01:45:26,613 --> 01:45:27,507
Why not?
1658
01:45:27,829 --> 01:45:29,836
I had no reason to tell
unless he asked.
1659
01:45:30,037 --> 01:45:34,031
You had no reason, as a sworn police
officer, to tell an investigator...
1660
01:45:34,229 --> 01:45:35,690
...in an important murder case...
1661
01:45:35,893 --> 01:45:40,115
...that you knew the suspect was 90
miles away at the time of the murder?
1662
01:45:40,308 --> 01:45:42,828
I'd have been butting
into his investigation--
1663
01:45:43,028 --> 01:45:46,672
You'd have been "butting into his
investigation "by telling him an alibi?
1664
01:45:47,252 --> 01:45:48,429
Sure.
1665
01:45:49,971 --> 01:45:53,004
Did you ever go to the D.A.
and tell them what was going on?
1666
01:45:53,779 --> 01:45:56,114
Did you tell the FBl
what was going on?
1667
01:45:56,979 --> 01:46:00,687
The only person you spoke to
about this case was Hardy Lott...
1668
01:46:00,882 --> 01:46:02,409
...Mr. Beckwith's defense attorney.
1669
01:46:02,611 --> 01:46:04,944
-When he called me--
-How long was...
1670
01:46:05,138 --> 01:46:07,986
...the defendant in jail by then?
A couple of weeks?
1671
01:46:09,139 --> 01:46:10,665
I don't remember, exactly.
1672
01:46:11,922 --> 01:46:13,710
Well, let me help you out.
1673
01:46:14,322 --> 01:46:17,136
It was over eight months.
1674
01:46:17,553 --> 01:46:19,179
Eight months.
1675
01:46:19,377 --> 01:46:22,311
You let your buddy sit in jail
all that time...
1676
01:46:22,513 --> 01:46:25,578
...and never once told anyone,
"You've got the wrong guy."
1677
01:46:25,776 --> 01:46:27,816
You're asking this jury
to believe that?
1678
01:46:28,689 --> 01:46:29,866
Yes, sir.
1679
01:46:33,359 --> 01:46:37,004
Earlier in your testimony, you said
that you and I are friends, right?
1680
01:46:37,423 --> 01:46:38,220
Said what?
1681
01:46:38,448 --> 01:46:41,230
That we're friends.
You and I are friends.
1682
01:46:43,375 --> 01:46:45,263
You still think we're friends?
1683
01:46:46,415 --> 01:46:47,560
Sure.
1684
01:46:49,391 --> 01:46:51,812
As my friend, if I ever go
to jail for murder...
1685
01:46:52,014 --> 01:46:53,836
...don't leave me there
for eight months...
1686
01:46:54,030 --> 01:46:56,397
...if you know where I was
when the murder took place.
1687
01:46:56,591 --> 01:46:57,387
Objection!
1688
01:46:57,710 --> 01:46:59,019
That was a thing of beauty.
1689
01:46:59,214 --> 01:47:00,294
Nothing further.
1690
01:47:00,494 --> 01:47:01,704
Will you redirect?
1691
01:47:01,901 --> 01:47:03,462
Thank you, Your Honor.
1692
01:47:04,781 --> 01:47:06,342
Would you lie for Mr. Beckwith?
1693
01:47:07,213 --> 01:47:08,554
Did he ask you to?
1694
01:47:08,781 --> 01:47:12,129
As a former police officer,
you know perjury is a serious crime.
1695
01:47:13,037 --> 01:47:15,044
I'm gonna ask you this one last time.
1696
01:47:15,244 --> 01:47:17,579
On the night that Medgar Evers
was killed...
1697
01:47:17,772 --> 01:47:22,115
...did you or did you not see
Beckwith some 95 miles away...
1698
01:47:22,316 --> 01:47:24,006
...from where the murder took place?
1699
01:47:25,676 --> 01:47:26,723
I saw him.
1700
01:47:26,923 --> 01:47:29,476
As God is your judge.
1701
01:47:30,828 --> 01:47:32,932
As God is my judge.
1702
01:47:33,772 --> 01:47:36,586
Thank you, Mr. Holley.
We have nothing further.
1703
01:47:39,723 --> 01:47:41,130
No further questions.
1704
01:47:42,411 --> 01:47:43,338
You may step down.
1705
01:47:47,114 --> 01:47:49,448
Is the defense prepared to call
its next witness?
1706
01:47:59,401 --> 01:48:00,546
Your Honor...
1707
01:48:00,873 --> 01:48:02,913
...the defense rests.
1708
01:48:04,329 --> 01:48:05,922
-What?
-Damn!
1709
01:48:07,176 --> 01:48:08,124
Quiet.
1710
01:48:09,768 --> 01:48:10,662
Ladies and gentlemen.
1711
01:48:10,984 --> 01:48:13,635
Quiet or I'll order the bailiff
to clear the courtroom.
1712
01:48:13,832 --> 01:48:15,937
Coward to the end.
1713
01:48:20,071 --> 01:48:21,664
To my knowledge...
1714
01:48:21,863 --> 01:48:24,449
...this jury is being asked
to look further...
1715
01:48:24,647 --> 01:48:27,550
...into the past than any jury...
1716
01:48:28,231 --> 01:48:31,428
...in the history
of American jurisprudence.
1717
01:48:31,847 --> 01:48:36,036
That places you folks
at a considerable disadvantage.
1718
01:48:36,615 --> 01:48:39,461
Evidence has been lost.
1719
01:48:40,294 --> 01:48:42,268
They don't have the bullet.
1720
01:48:42,630 --> 01:48:46,754
They don't have the spent cartridge
case that was found in the gun.
1721
01:48:46,949 --> 01:48:50,778
They don't have the live ammunition
that was found in the gun.
1722
01:48:51,109 --> 01:48:52,571
Where is it?
1723
01:48:53,604 --> 01:48:55,197
Nobody knows.
1724
01:48:56,069 --> 01:48:58,490
Does this create reasonable doubt?
1725
01:48:58,788 --> 01:49:00,479
Of course it does.
1726
01:49:01,284 --> 01:49:04,186
And you have heard a number
of witnesses testify...
1727
01:49:04,388 --> 01:49:07,649
...that years after the crime,
Mr. Beckwith said this...
1728
01:49:07,844 --> 01:49:09,753
...or Mr. Beckwith said that.
1729
01:49:10,020 --> 01:49:14,209
But the defense has presented you
with an eyewitness.
1730
01:49:14,404 --> 01:49:16,989
A sworn officer of the law...
1731
01:49:17,187 --> 01:49:21,377
...who has testified under oath
that he saw the defendant...
1732
01:49:21,571 --> 01:49:25,946
...in Greenwood, Mississippi,
over 90 miles from Jackson...
1733
01:49:26,146 --> 01:49:28,961
...Iess than an hour after the murder.
1734
01:49:30,498 --> 01:49:32,701
Does that create reasonable doubt?
1735
01:49:33,506 --> 01:49:35,066
You bet it does.
1736
01:49:35,745 --> 01:49:39,487
And reasonable doubt
means one thing...
1737
01:49:39,745 --> 01:49:41,501
...and one thing only.
1738
01:49:42,081 --> 01:49:43,423
By law...
1739
01:49:43,681 --> 01:49:47,193
...you must render
a not guilty verdict.
1740
01:49:47,968 --> 01:49:51,229
Forget that it's Byron "Delay" Beckwith.
1741
01:49:51,680 --> 01:49:54,996
Forget that you may not like him,
that you...
1742
01:49:55,200 --> 01:49:57,272
...may not agree with him.
1743
01:49:58,304 --> 01:50:00,059
Judge the evidence...
1744
01:50:00,671 --> 01:50:02,559
...and judge it fairly.
1745
01:50:03,519 --> 01:50:04,829
Because...
1746
01:50:05,023 --> 01:50:07,195
...in the United States...
1747
01:50:07,583 --> 01:50:11,673
...we don't do that for people
we just like and admire.
1748
01:50:12,798 --> 01:50:15,002
We do that for everybody...
1749
01:50:15,198 --> 01:50:16,507
...that's on trial...
1750
01:50:16,703 --> 01:50:18,906
...in an American court of law.
1751
01:50:19,614 --> 01:50:22,549
Because if the system doesn't work...
1752
01:50:22,750 --> 01:50:24,659
...for Byron De La Beckwith...
1753
01:50:24,861 --> 01:50:25,844
...it doesn't work...
1754
01:50:26,333 --> 01:50:27,893
...for anyone.
1755
01:50:28,605 --> 01:50:32,434
I ask you to let the system work...
1756
01:50:33,917 --> 01:50:35,892
...and once and for all...
1757
01:50:36,220 --> 01:50:37,976
...find the defendant...
1758
01:50:38,301 --> 01:50:41,596
...Byron De La Beckwith,
not guilty.
1759
01:50:44,251 --> 01:50:45,658
Thank you.
1760
01:50:59,675 --> 01:51:01,584
An unarmed man...
1761
01:51:02,075 --> 01:51:05,239
...arrives home in the late hours
of the night...
1762
01:51:05,434 --> 01:51:08,117
...home to his family, his wife...
1763
01:51:08,314 --> 01:51:10,223
...and three small children...
1764
01:51:10,937 --> 01:51:12,944
...gets out of his car...
1765
01:51:13,497 --> 01:51:15,569
...and with his back turned...
1766
01:51:15,897 --> 01:51:18,286
...is gunned down by a coward.
1767
01:51:20,153 --> 01:51:21,941
That coward is...
1768
01:51:22,136 --> 01:51:23,663
...Byron De La Beckwith.
1769
01:51:24,793 --> 01:51:26,134
His gun.
1770
01:51:26,552 --> 01:51:27,861
His scope.
1771
01:51:28,056 --> 01:51:29,398
His fingerprint.
1772
01:51:29,592 --> 01:51:30,836
His car.
1773
01:51:31,032 --> 01:51:34,992
And lastly, but certainly not least,
his mouth.
1774
01:51:36,152 --> 01:51:37,940
When he thought he got away with it...
1775
01:51:38,136 --> 01:51:41,616
...he couldn't keep his mouth shut
with people he wanted to impress.
1776
01:51:41,816 --> 01:51:44,685
And now his venom has come back
to do him in...
1777
01:51:44,887 --> 01:51:46,447
...because, ladies and gentlemen...
1778
01:51:46,647 --> 01:51:49,995
...there is no statute
of limitations on murder.
1779
01:51:50,551 --> 01:51:53,070
The law doesn't say
that if you killed someone...
1780
01:51:53,270 --> 01:51:55,058
... 10 years ago or 20 years ago...
1781
01:51:55,254 --> 01:51:59,149
...or even 30 years ago,
that you don't have to pay the price.
1782
01:51:59,350 --> 01:52:03,146
The law doesn't say that if you are
50 years old or 60 years old...
1783
01:52:03,350 --> 01:52:07,146
...or 70 years old,
that you don't have to pay the price.
1784
01:52:07,350 --> 01:52:08,943
No man...
1785
01:52:09,749 --> 01:52:11,472
...is above the law.
1786
01:52:14,165 --> 01:52:15,855
And for what reason...
1787
01:52:16,052 --> 01:52:17,874
...was Medgar Evers' life taken?
1788
01:52:18,068 --> 01:52:22,191
For wanting some degree
of equality for himself...
1789
01:52:22,388 --> 01:52:24,657
...his family and his fellow man.
1790
01:52:24,852 --> 01:52:28,780
Ladies and gentlemen,
when that kind of murder happens...
1791
01:52:29,172 --> 01:52:31,343
...no matter who the victim...
1792
01:52:31,732 --> 01:52:33,935
...no matter what his race...
1793
01:52:34,131 --> 01:52:36,432
...there is a gaping wound...
1794
01:52:36,627 --> 01:52:39,823
...Iaid open on society as a whole.
1795
01:52:41,747 --> 01:52:43,088
Justice...
1796
01:52:43,666 --> 01:52:45,576
...has sometimes been referred to...
1797
01:52:45,778 --> 01:52:47,666
...as the soothing balm
to be applied...
1798
01:52:47,858 --> 01:52:50,313
...to the wounds inflicted on society.
1799
01:52:50,514 --> 01:52:52,237
But when there is no justice...
1800
01:52:52,434 --> 01:52:55,564
...those wounds can never be cleansed.
1801
01:52:56,465 --> 01:52:59,564
Those wounds can never be healed.
1802
01:53:02,128 --> 01:53:04,463
When I addressed you
in my opening statement...
1803
01:53:04,656 --> 01:53:07,406
...I said that this was a simple case.
1804
01:53:07,601 --> 01:53:10,055
Well, I was right and I was wrong.
1805
01:53:10,384 --> 01:53:12,326
The evidence is simple...
1806
01:53:12,528 --> 01:53:14,502
...and the conclusion is
more than obvious.
1807
01:53:14,704 --> 01:53:16,230
But the reason we are all...
1808
01:53:16,431 --> 01:53:18,952
...sitting in this courtroom
so many years after...
1809
01:53:19,151 --> 01:53:21,737
...this disgraceful
assassination took place...
1810
01:53:21,968 --> 01:53:24,521
...is anything but simple.
1811
01:53:26,767 --> 01:53:28,655
President John F. Kennedy...
1812
01:53:28,846 --> 01:53:31,563
...in his landmark civil rights speech
to the nation...
1813
01:53:31,759 --> 01:53:35,948
...delivered on the very night
Medgar Evers was murdered, said...
1814
01:53:36,142 --> 01:53:39,720
... "We face a moral crisis
as a country...
1815
01:53:39,981 --> 01:53:41,411
...and as a people.
1816
01:53:42,285 --> 01:53:45,863
Those who do nothing are
inviting shame...
1817
01:53:46,062 --> 01:53:48,134
...as well as violence.
1818
01:53:48,429 --> 01:53:52,487
Those who act boldly are
recognizing right...
1819
01:53:53,229 --> 01:53:55,618
...as well as reality."
1820
01:53:56,844 --> 01:53:59,877
Today, 30 years later...
1821
01:54:00,204 --> 01:54:02,441
...on behalf of the state
of Mississippi...
1822
01:54:02,636 --> 01:54:07,241
...I'm asking you 12 ladies
and gentlemen to act boldly.
1823
01:54:07,499 --> 01:54:11,296
To hold this defendant accountable
and find him guilty...
1824
01:54:11,499 --> 01:54:13,441
...simply because it is right...
1825
01:54:13,643 --> 01:54:14,887
...it is just...
1826
01:54:15,083 --> 01:54:18,050
...and Lord knows, it is time.
1827
01:54:21,483 --> 01:54:22,759
Is it ever...
1828
01:54:23,307 --> 01:54:25,925
...too late to do the right thing?
1829
01:54:28,298 --> 01:54:30,502
For the sake of justice...
1830
01:54:30,698 --> 01:54:34,592
...and for the hope of us
as a civilized society...
1831
01:54:35,658 --> 01:54:39,301
...I sincerely pray that it is not.
1832
01:54:42,568 --> 01:54:43,517
Thank you.
1833
01:54:46,056 --> 01:54:47,812
How long do you think they'll be out?
1834
01:54:48,136 --> 01:54:51,518
All I know is a short time is good
and a long time is...
1835
01:54:51,912 --> 01:54:52,773
...not so good.
1836
01:54:53,256 --> 01:54:55,111
Then I'll pray for a short time.
1837
01:54:57,159 --> 01:54:59,876
This reminds me of Medgar's office
on Lynch Street.
1838
01:55:00,072 --> 01:55:02,722
You know, I used to be
Medgar's secretary.
1839
01:55:03,783 --> 01:55:05,986
He insisted that we behave
in the office...
1840
01:55:06,183 --> 01:55:08,965
...strictly as employer-employee.
1841
01:55:09,159 --> 01:55:12,574
He'd call me Mrs. Evers,
and I'd have to call him Mr. Evers.
1842
01:55:12,774 --> 01:55:14,181
Is that right?
1843
01:55:14,598 --> 01:55:16,638
Everybody thought he was crazy.
1844
01:55:16,838 --> 01:55:20,001
But he was just so determined
to do a good job.
1845
01:55:23,557 --> 01:55:25,216
You remind me of Medgar.
1846
01:55:30,437 --> 01:55:31,812
Thank you, ma'am.
1847
01:55:32,933 --> 01:55:34,842
Would you like a cup of coffee?
1848
01:55:35,077 --> 01:55:36,222
No, thanks.
1849
01:55:38,308 --> 01:55:41,953
As many trials as I've been through
and I can never take the waiting.
1850
01:55:42,373 --> 01:55:43,420
Wanna go for a walk?
1851
01:55:43,812 --> 01:55:46,779
No, you go ahead. I've gotten
pretty good at waiting.
1852
01:56:05,634 --> 01:56:07,041
That Judge Hilburn...
1853
01:56:07,234 --> 01:56:08,859
...he don't have a lot of patience.
1854
01:56:09,057 --> 01:56:11,708
That jury ain't back with a verdict
in a few hours...
1855
01:56:11,906 --> 01:56:13,214
...he'll declare a mistrial.
1856
01:56:13,409 --> 01:56:15,100
I'm not sure I got that.
1857
01:56:15,297 --> 01:56:18,014
Would you mind repeating that,
please?
1858
01:56:18,209 --> 01:56:19,899
You did say mistrial, didn't you?
1859
01:56:20,097 --> 01:56:21,275
I'm gonna snooch you.
1860
01:56:36,704 --> 01:56:37,881
All rise.
1861
01:56:55,902 --> 01:56:57,756
When the verdict is read...
1862
01:56:57,951 --> 01:57:00,219
...there will be no demonstrations...
1863
01:57:00,414 --> 01:57:03,283
...or any emotional outbursts
of any type.
1864
01:57:27,548 --> 01:57:29,653
Has the jury reached a verdict?
1865
01:57:30,332 --> 01:57:31,608
It has, Your Honor.
1866
01:57:31,803 --> 01:57:33,659
If the bailiff will hand me
the verdict.
1867
01:57:56,921 --> 01:58:00,368
I'll ask the jury at this time
to stand and face the defendant.
1868
01:58:04,377 --> 01:58:06,199
The defendant will face the jury.
1869
01:58:14,104 --> 01:58:16,470
The jury foreman will now
read the verdict.
1870
01:58:18,488 --> 01:58:19,666
We the jury...
1871
01:58:19,863 --> 01:58:21,204
...find the defendant...
1872
01:58:21,399 --> 01:58:25,360
...Byron De La Beckwith,
guilty as charged.
1873
01:58:32,887 --> 01:58:34,479
-Quiet in this courtroom.
-Guilty.
1874
01:59:06,996 --> 01:59:10,061
Mrs. Evers, how did you feel
when the verdict came in?
1875
01:59:31,378 --> 01:59:34,727
It's been a long journey.
1876
01:59:37,810 --> 01:59:40,843
Medgar, I've gone the last mile
of the way.
1877
01:59:42,289 --> 01:59:45,224
I've gone the last mile of the way.
1878
01:59:47,536 --> 01:59:49,445
And all I want to say...
1879
01:59:50,000 --> 01:59:52,072
...is yea, Medgar!
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