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- Civil rights leader Medgar Evers' body was exhumed and secretly re-examined here as prosecutors prepare to try a white supremacist for the third time in his 1963 slaying, officials confirmed Wednesday. Evers' body was exhumed Monday from Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, said Maj. Arlene Beatty, a U.S. Army spokeswoman.
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Evers was murdered in 1963 at his home in Jackson, Mississippi, now the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument, by Byron De La Beckwith, [1] a member of the White Citizens' Council in Jackson. This group was formed in 1954 in Mississippi to resist the integration of schools and civil rights activism.
Jun 6, 1991 · The body of civil rights leader Medgar Evers was exhumed and transported here to be re-examined as part of a renewed inquiry into his slaying, officials confirmed Wednesday. Evers’ body was exhumed...
Jun 6, 1991 · Medgar Evers' body was exhumed and re-examined at the request of prosecutors preparing to try a white supremacist for a third time in the 1963 slaying, an official said. The original autopsy report is missing. Evers' family consented to the opening of the grave Monday at Arlington National Cemetery.
Jun 7, 1991 · Prosecutors say they had the body of Medgar Evers exhumed because an autopsy report done soon after the civil rights leader was slain in 1963 is missing.
Jun 6, 1991 · The body of Medgar Evers, the slain civil rights leader, was exhumed and secretly re-examined here as prosecutors prepared to try a white supremacist for the third time in the 1963 killing,...
Jun 29, 2024 · The body of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers was exhumed from Arlington National Cemetery and secretly transported here to be re-examined. Prosecutors in Mississippi preparing to try...
Jan 1, 2022 · Medgar Evers was shot on June 12, 1963, from a distance of 150 feet with a high-powered rifle. The injury, a through–and-through right chest wound, resulted in hemorrhage shock. Evers was transported by private car to the University of Mississippi Medical Center Emergency Department.
