Medgar Evers Remembered in D.C., Now Jackson
JACKSON, Miss.–It was June 12, 1963 when assassin Byron de la Beckwith, a white supremacist, put a bullet in the back of civil rights leader Medgar...
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Neighborhood Shot Up, Twin Brothers Blamed
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JACKSON, Miss.-Over 200 rounds of ammo were possibly fired in a shootout that had a whole neighborhood in danger in Mississippi’s caputal city, and now...
Multiple Shooting Leaves One Dead, Five Injured
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JACKSON, Miss.–One person is dead and five others have been wounded in a Monday shooting outside an apartment complex in Mississippi’s capital city. While Jackson...
Medgar Evers Events Mark 50 Years Since Assassination
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JACKSON, Miss.–It was June 12, 1963 when white supremacist Byron de la Beckwith gunned down Medgar Evers, the 37-year-old field secretary for Mississippi’s NAACP. Since...