Murder in Mississippi: The Medgar Evers Assassination Case
REDACTED: Declassified Mysteries with Luke Lamana
Audible | Ballen Studios
4.5 • 929 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
For decades, justice for civil rights leader Medgar Evers remained out of reach. Assassinated in his own driveway in 1963, his killer walked free after two all-white juries refused to convict him. But the story didn’t end there. Nearly 30 years later, long-hidden government documents revealed possible jury tampering, reopening the case and leading to a dramatic trial in which his murderer was finally brought to justice.
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| 0:00.0 | Love unsettling stories. |
| 0:02.4 | Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to redacted, declassified mysteries, early and ad-free, |
| 0:07.8 | as well as another twisted tale from Bollin Studios and Wondery called Wartime Stories, |
| 0:12.8 | also hosted by me, Early and Ad-Free on Wondry Plus. |
| 0:16.7 | Start your free trial today. It was just after midnight in Jackson, Mississippi on June 12, 1963. |
| 0:31.6 | Medgar Evers was fighting to keep his eyes on the road. |
| 0:35.6 | The stillness of the night had him on edge. |
| 0:38.8 | Just yesterday he learned that the Ku Klux Klan had marked him for death. |
| 0:44.6 | Medgar was Mississippi's most prominent civil rights activist. |
| 0:48.2 | He served as the local field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of |
| 0:52.7 | Colored People, or N-A-CP, |
| 0:55.5 | and he was in the midst of a difficult battle. |
| 0:58.2 | The clan wanted him dead because he was fighting for integration. |
| 1:02.5 | Medgar checked his review mirror every few seconds, looking to see if he was being followed. |
| 1:07.4 | This had become a force of habit over the last few days. |
| 1:11.2 | Mississippi clunk tightly to Jim Crow laws. |
| 1:14.4 | Most black people couldn't vote, get a proper education, run certain businesses, or even drink from public water fountains. |
| 1:21.7 | Activists like Medgar were ramping up their efforts to change things, but lately the situation had gotten a lot more |
| 1:28.3 | dangerous. A week prior, some of Medgar's fellow activists staged a sit-in at the segregated |
| 1:35.5 | war's lunch counter in Jackson. They were berated and abused while the Jackson police |
| 1:40.8 | sat by and did nothing. This made national headlines, which then turned up the heat locally. |
| 1:47.3 | Since then, the threats against civil rights activists had picked up, especially toward Medgar. |
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