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Ghosts of Mississippi is a 1996 American biographical courtroom drama film directed by Rob Reiner and starring Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, and James Woods. The film is based on the 1994 trial of Byron De La Beckwith , a white supremacist accused of the 1963 assassination of civil rights activist Medgar Evers .
Maryanne Vollers is an American author, journalist and ghostwriter.Her first book, Ghosts of Mississippi, was a finalist in non-fiction for the 1995 National Book Award. [1] [2] Her many collaborations include the memoirs of Hillary Rodham Clinton, [3] Dr. Jerri Nielsen, [4] Sissy Spacek, [5] Ashley Judd, [6] and Billie Jean King. [7]
The feature film Ghosts of Mississippi (1996) tells the story of the murder and 1994 trial. James Woods's performance as De La Beckwith was nominated for an Academy Award. In 2001, Bobby DeLaughter published his memoir of the case and 1994 trial, Never Too Late: A Prosecutor’s Story of Justice in the Medgar Evers Trial. [19]
Robert Burt DeLaughter Sr. (born February 28, 1954, in Vicksburg, Mississippi) is a former state prosecutor and then Hinds County Circuit Judge. He prosecuted and secured the conviction in 1994 of Byron De La Beckwith, charged with the murder of the civil rights leader Medgar Evers on June 12, 1963. Two earlier trials in Mississippi in 1964 had ...
The review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes sampled 28 reviews and gave Mississippi Burning a score of 79%, with an average score of 6.8/10. The consensus reads: "Mississippi Burning draws on real-life tragedy to impart a worthy message with the measured control of an intelligent drama and the hard-hitting impact of a thriller."
Hugh Dancy’s great-grandmother is the subject of a new true crime podcast from Wondery. “Ghost Story” unravels the tale of Dr. Naomi Dancy, who was found dead in 1937 after being shot twice ...
Mississippi parents can feel at ease knowing state education leaders are working hard to improve the quality of education for their children. — Patricia Levesque, CEO of ExcelinEd, an education ...
Ghosts returns for Season 3 on Thursday, Feb. 15 at 8:30/7:30c. In the season premiere, “Sam, Jay and the remaining ghosts unravel the mystery of which ghost passed into the afterlife,” reads ...