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Ghosts of Mississippi is a 1996 drama film directed by Rob Reiner and starring Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg and James Woods. The plot focuses on the 1994 trial of Byron De La Beckwith, the white supremacist accused of the 1963 assassination of civil rights activist Medgar Evers. The original music score is composed by Marc Shaiman.

James Woods was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role of Byron De La Beckwith.

Tagline: In 1963, civil rights leader Medgar Evers was murdered in his own driveway. For 30 years, his assassin has remained free. Is it ever too late to do the right thing?

Main cast

Alec Baldwin
- Bobby DeLaughter
Whoopi Goldberg
- Myrlie Evers
James Woods
- Byron De La Beckwith
Virginia Madsen
- Dixie DeLaughter
William H. Macy
- Charlie Crisco
Susanna Thompson
- Peggy Lloyd
Bonnie Bartlett
- Billie DeLaughter
Diane Ladd
- Caroline Moore
Bill Cobbs
- Charles Evers
Craig T. Nelson
- District Attorney Ed Peters
Brock Peters
- Wilter Williams
Wayne Rogers
- Morris Dees
Terry O'Quinn
- Judge Hilburn
Ramon Bieri
- James Holley

Plot summary

Medgar Evers is a black civil rights activist in Mississippi who was murdered by an assassin in 1963. It is later suspected that Byron De La Beckwith, a white supremacist, is the murderer and he would be tried twice and both trials ended in hung juries. In 1989, Evers' widow Myrlie has been trying to bring De La Beckwith to justice for over 25 years, and she believes she has what it takes to bring him to trial again. However, most of the evidence from the old trial have disappeared but Bobby DeLaughter, an assistant District Attorney, decides to do what he can to help her despite being warned that it might hurt his political aspirations and the strain it is causing his marriage. However, DeLaughter becomes more involved with bringing De La Beckwith to trial for the third time 30 years later. In 1994, Bryon De La Beckwith is found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Trivia

Delmar Dennis (a key witness against Byron De La Beckwith) and his family can be seen as extras in the parade scene. At the film's end, a title card indicated that Bobby DeLaughter had run for a position as a judge and been defeated. That was true at the time. Subsequently, he was appointed to a judgement and later elected overwhelmingly to that position.
Medgar Evers' two sons Darrell and James Van Evers played themselves in this film.
Myrlie Evers was one of this film's consultants.
This film was shot on location in Jackson, Mississippi.

Goofs

Although the film begins in 1989 and ends in 1994, the same child actors portraying Bobby DeLaughter's children are used from the beginning of the movie until the end, showing no signs of aging.

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