CNN The Sixties June 28, 2014 01:52:00
Law. >> it's his most eloquent speech in some ways, most heartfelt speech. >> and this nation for all its hopes will not be fully free until all its citizens are free. >> there is a kind of bitter irony in that within hours afterwards, medgar evers comes home and his wife and children are up because they want to tell him about the president's wonderful speech. >> shortly after midnight, medgar evers steps in his car in this driveway. then evers was murdered. the fatal bullet was fired from a vacant lot across the street from evers' home, crashing through his body and through the window of his ...