Oops, some error occurred while uploading your photo(s). Flowers added to the memorial appear on the bottom of the memorial or here on the Flowers tab. Are you sure that you want to delete this memorial? Are you sure that you want to remove this flower? He has taken several tours there with a total of 64 people. The slaying haunted the Evers family, Charles Evers, his brother and a veteran civil rights activist, said in a telephone interview yesterday with the Associated Press. About this Item . It didn't take much more reading to learn that, by all appearances, he had gotten away with murder. In that moment he says, Maybe I wasnt brought up right. How many human beings acknowledge that?. The emptiness of this "victory" was made clear when Beckwith was retried the same year. During one of those conversations, Saltzman said he would like to interview Beckwith in Mississippi, and Beckwith agreed to the idea. He was stopped at the door and beaten by De La Beckwiththen 19 years old a Ku Klux Klan member and the son of Byron De La Beckwith, the high-ranking Klansman who was eventually convicted of killing Evers. 2023 TV GUIDE, A FANDOM COMPANY. "I wanted to understand him," said Saltzman on CBC Radio's Sunday Edition. Use Escape keyboard button or the Close button to close the carousel. Quickly see who the memorial is for and when they lived and died and where they are buried. At 37, Evers, an NAACP field secretary who pushed for an end to segregation, was shot in the back after stepping out of his Oldsmobile on June 12, 1963. You are nearing the transfer limit for memorials managed by Find a Grave. Two trials in 1964 on this. Delay De La Beckwith In Biographical Summaries of Notable People Save this record and choose the information you want to add to your family tree Save record Delay De La Beckwith Save this record and choose the information you want to add to your family tree Save record Spotted an error? You have chosen this person to be their own family member. //