This Day in True Crime — February 5, 1994 Byron De La Beckwith Sentenced for the Murder of Medgar Evers On February 5, 1994, white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith was sentenced to life in prison for the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, more than 30 years after the crime. Evers, a Mississippi NAACP field secretary, was assassinated outside his home in Jackson for his work advocating racial equality and voting rights. Beckwith was tried twice in the 1960s, but both all-white jurie

Byron de la Beckwith Escorted to Jail (July 25, 1963)