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	Ghosts of Mississippi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ghosts of Mississippi is a 1996 drama film directed by Rob Reiner and starring Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg and James Woods.
		Medgar Evers is a fl civil rights activist in Mississippi who was murdered by an assassin in 1963.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ghosts_of_Mississippi (545 words)

	Ghosts of Mississippi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Ghosts of Mississippi tells the true story of Mississippi assistant District Attorney Bobby DeLaughter's (Alec Baldwin) bringing to trial for a third time racist murderer Byron De la Beckwith (James Woods), 30 years after the slaying of civil rights worker Medgar Evers.
		Not the least of its messages is the point that Mississippi, the most hardcore of the once segregationist southern states, has finally come to terms with the change that Evers and others like him helped bring about.
		Today's reality is that it is possible for a Black victim of a white crime to get justice in Mississippi, even if it was delayed 30 years (two trials before all-white all-male juries shortly after the crime ended in hung juries both times).
	www.svtoday.com /svt/ghosts.htm (306 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| Ghosts of Mississippi
		AS TOLD in director Rob Reiner's Ghosts of Mississippi, 1993 was the year white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith finally received a life sentence for the 30-year-old murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
		If Ghosts of Mississippi is more tedious and unconvincing than A Time to Kill, it's also slightly less offensive, owing mainly to the fact that it doesn't feel obliged to sell us on the heroism of a fresh young buck like Matthew McConaughey.
		Ghosts of Mississippi (G-13; 123 min.), directed by Rob Reiner, written by Lewis Colick, photographed by John Seale and starring Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg and James Woods.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/12.19.96/ghost-mississippi-9651.html (608 words)

	Review: Ghosts of Mississippi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Ghosts of Mississippi, director Rob Reiner's 1996 Academy Award contender and his follow-up to last year's The American President, tells this compelling story using a solid, if somewhat unconventional, cast.
		Whatever its faults, Ghosts of Mississippi is certainly an involving drama.
		At times, Ghosts of Mississippi resembles nothing more lofty than a toned- down, historically-grounded version of A Time to Kill.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/g/ghosts_ms.html (757 words)

	Ghosts Of Mississippi
		He was appointed the first field secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1954, after he was refused admission to the University of Mississippi Law School because of his race.
		He was taken to the hospital from the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Rankin County, where he was serving a life sentence for the 1963 shooting of Evers.
		Ghosts of Mississippi was a box-office disappointment, barely earning back its $36 million budget in its initial run.
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	Ghosts of Mississippi
		In the past, it's been titled Mississippi Burning, A Time To Kill, Cry Freedom, etc., but the story is the same: a reluctantly heroic white-knight kind of guy (disguised — in a suit — as a fed,lawyer, writer) is moved beyond his immediate status-quo-preserving impulses to do the right thing.
		He doggedly pursues justice,while enduring some unlikely action sequences (surviving explosions or gunfire as these externalize his internal state of guilt) and/or mounting a persuasive argument in a courtroom, so that the evil racists — who are never the imagined or intendedaudience for this movie — get what they deserve, a serious comeuppance.
		This version of this movie — Rob Reiner's drippy Ghosts of Mississippi — is the story of Bobby DeLaughter (Alec Baldwin), the assistant district attorney who won theconviction of white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith (James Woods) in 1994 for the 1963 assassination of Medgar Evers.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/010997/article036.shtml (348 words)

	Ghosts of Mississippi
		Achieving Authenticity in the Film Ghosts of Mississippi: Identity and Authorship in Historical Narratives.
		Ghosts of Mississippi: New film raises same old question
		Miss.trial; Rob Reiner slaps another shade of pale Southern justice in 'Ghosts of Mississippi'; "Ghosts of Mississippi." Rated PG.
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	GHOSTS OF MISSISSIPPI SOUNDTRACK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Columbia Records is proud to release GHOSTS OF MISSISSIPPI, the original motion picture soundtrack album for the new Columbia Pictures/Castle Rock Entertainment film starring Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, and James Woods.
		Shortly after midnight in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers was shot in the back by Byron De La Beckwith (James Woods), a self-proclaimed white supremacist who was released after two trials resulted in hung juries.
		Ghosts Of Mississippi opened in New York on December 8, in Mississippi on December 12, and in Los Angeles on December 16.
	www.sonymusic.com /artists/GhostsOfMississippi (292 words)

	Interview: Ghosts of past and present - interviews with Whoopi Goldberg and Rob Reiner - Interview
		In the following conversation about their new movie, Ghosts of Mississippi, Whoopi Goldberg credits director Rob Reiner with kicking open another door.
		WG: I sat with Myrlie quite a bit in Mississippi, and we talked extensively about Medgar and their life together.
		GF: The torching of fl churches in the South makes films like Ghosts of Mississippi and A Time to Kill especially timely.
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	Chicago Reader Movie Review
		In the case of Ghosts of Mississippi, for instance, I'm especially grateful to the filmmakers for offering a full corrective to Mississippi Burning and A Time to Kill when it comes to representing everyday life in the deep south and to expressing some sense of civic responsibility in dealing with racist murders.
		These two virtues are closely connected; if one believes the lurid imaginings of Mississippi Burning and A Time to Kill about normal life in a typical southern town, then the vigilante form of justice celebrated in both those films begins to seem more viable.
		The problem is that Ghosts of Mississippi, like The Crucible, is a liberal movie--anything but fashionable these days.
	www.chicagoreader.com /movies/archives/1296/12206.html (1449 words)

	Title: "Ghosts of Mississippi" - Topics: U.S./Civil Rights
		to "Ghosts of Mississippi" will help teachers and parents introduce children to the themes raised in the film, including: the dangers of civil rights work in the South in the 1960s and the difficulties in obtaining justice for slain civil rights workers.
		The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission was charged with preserving segregation in the state.
		The Commission went out of existence in 1973 when the Mississippi governor (the same man who, as district attorney, had tried unsuccessfully to convict de la Beckwith in 1964) vetoed funding for the agency.
	www.teachwithmovies.org /guides/ghosts-of-mississippi.html (498 words)

	Tower Records - Ghosts Of Mississippi (WS/DD) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The son-in-law of a well-known (and well-known to be racist) judge, DeLaughter's civil rights history is negligible; however, as a father, the case strikes his sense of fairness, justice, and family, and he takes it.
		From there lies an uphill battle, as many in Mississippi, even at the end of the 20th century, still hold to the traditions of segregation and resentment of those who would change them.
		GHOSTS OF MISSISSIPPI is the true story of Assistant District Attorney Bobby DeLaughter's successful prosecution of white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith, accused of the murder of NAACP officer Medgar Evers--30 years after the fact.
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	Ghosts of Mississippi (1996) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Based on fact and directed by Rob Reiner, Ghosts recounts the investigation, and retrial in 1994 - after two mistrials in the 60s - of Byron de la Beckwith for the racist shooting in 1963 of Medgar Evers, an NAACP activist.
		Alec Baldwin gives a solid, and sometimes stolid, performance in the central role of prosecuting DA, Bobby DeLaughter (pronounced DeLaw), himself from Mississippi's white uppercrust, whose marriage hits the rocks because of his pursuit of the case.
		James Woods, convincingly made up to look over 70 for most of the movie, is electrifying as the arrogant, hateful Beckwith.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0116410 (627 words)

	Ghosts of Mississippi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Mississippi was a terrible place where there was vigorous cooperation between the racist law enforcement officials, the racist politicians, and the K.K.K., as well as any other racist organization in Mississippi who wanted the latest information on the movements of civil rights workers in the state for the purposes of harassment and even murder.
		The unanimity of racism in Mississippi made brutal murders of Civil Rights workers a badge of honor among white Mississippians.
		This is the story of the assassination of Medgar Evers by one of the most rabid racists in a state full of rabid racists.
	www.vernonjohns.org /snuffy1186/ghosts.html (172 words)

	Ghosts of Mississippi (1996) - MovieWeb
		Ghosts of Mississippi is a drama covering the final trial of the assassin, Bryon De La Beckwith (Woods),who on June 12, 1963 ended the life of civil rights activist Medgar Evers.
		It begins with the murder and the events surrounding the two initial trials which both ended in a hung jury.
		Through perseverance and faith, his case would be resurrected, and Mississippi along with the world would take a significant step towards atonement as well as racial equality.
	movieweb.com /movie/mississippi (171 words)

	Ghosts of Mississippi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Medgar Evers was killed in Mississippi in the early 60s, and Byron Delay Beckwith was arrested for his murder.
		Evers' children learned at an early age that it's not enough to overcome the effects of a 30.06 slug.
		When Alec Baldwin's daughter saw ghosts in her room, she'd call her dad.
	www.sharbrough.net /work/rvw_m004.html (386 words)

	Ghosts of Mississippi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Evers was a real-life hero to just about anyone who believed people shouldn't be judged by the color of their skin.
		American to attempt to enroll in the University of Mississippi (yes, southern schools once had all-white football teams), Evers went on to fight for public school integration, voters' rights, open housing, open lunch counters -- the works.
		This film is in many ways Reiner's most difficult, as it has to stand next to the historical record.
	www.rambles.net /ghosts_miss.html (479 words)

	The My Hero Project - Medgar Wiley Evers
		Evers and his wife then moved to Mound Bayou, Mississippi, and began to establish local chapters of the NAACP throughout the Delta.
		Later, Evers was appointed Mississippi’s first field secretary for the NAACP.
		Quoted from an article in the Encyclopedia of World Biography: Second Edition, “In the 1960’s, his boycotting of Jackson merchants attracted national attention, and his efforts to have James Meredith admitted to the University of Mississippi in 1962 brought the much needed federal help for which he had been soliciting.
	www.myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=Evers_NW (1371 words)

	Ghosts of Mississippi
		Newton invite you to see this in the context of a culmination of much of the work that we have done with you over the past two years.
		Listen to the voices of the past, the "ghosts" of our American journey.
		"Mississippi Burning: The murder case that set a US state alight" - The Independent, Online Edition.
	www.twinfield.net /teachers/middle_school/ghosts (330 words)

	Blogcritics.org: Ghosts of Mississippi
		But something changed in the research, something was added to the mix, the racist murderer not just laughed at the law, not just flouted justice but he came to symbolize all the evil of the past that continued as remnants in the present.
		But he(Alec Baldwin) began to realize that ghosts need to be sung to sleep, and not just with the hymns to which armies marched, but with real songs of justice.
		Without police officers abusing their authority to murder, to profile — driving while fl, without the judges dealing out injustice and evil as if that were their job.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2005/05/20/130912.php (1060 words)

	MOVIE-REVIEW: 'Ghosts of Mississippi'
		In the time-dishonored tradition of "A Time to Kill,'' "Cry Freedom'' and "Glory'' (which was, at least, good), the wretched "Ghosts of the Mississippi'' is the story of Medgar Evers, who helped integrate Mississippi schools, creating educational opportunities that young African Americans still enjoy.
		Instead, "Ghosts of the Mississipi'' focuses on attorney Bobby DeLaughter's crusade to bring Evers' murderer to justice.
		Whoever decided to use them obviously meant well, but if the road to movie hell is paved with good intentions, "Ghosts of Mississippi'' is the gutter on that road.
	www.lubbockonline.com /news/010397/movie.htm (427 words)

	Ghosts of Mississippi Standard Release DVD - MovieWeb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Ghosts of Mississippi Standard Release DVD - MovieWeb
		) was a fl civil-rights activist in Mississippi who was shot to death in 1963.
		Despite very persuasive evidence that Byron De La Beckwith (James Woods) was indeed his killer, the all-white juries hearing his case at that time acquitted him (he was tried twice).
	www.movieweb.com /dvd/release/57/14357/features.php (291 words)

	GHOSTS OF MISSISSIPPI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Acquitted due to two mistrials, Beckwith has been a free man for thirty years.
		However, in 1989 Medgar's widow, Myrlie (WHOOPI GOLDBERG) brings up the case again, and this time it falls into the lap of Mississippi assistant district attorney Bobby DeLaughter (ALEC BALDWIN).
		His boss, Ed Peters (CRAIG T. NELSON) isn't crazy about him taking the case, due to its notoriety and because most of the original evidence is missing and most of the witnesses are now dead.
	www.screenit.com /movies/1996/ghosts_of_mississippi.html (1152 words)

	Ghost Chasers of Michigan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Ghosts!: Personal Accounts of Modern Mississippi Hauntings By Sylvia Booth Hubbard, Robert Hubbard (Photographer)
		Ghosts: True Encounters with the World Beyond by Hans Holzer
		© 2004 - 2005 by Ghost Chasers of Michigan.
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	New York Beacon, The: Ghosts of Mississippi@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		New York Beacon, The: Ghosts of Mississippi@ HighBeam Research
		Mississippi is genuinely haunted by ghosts of a brutal past.
		when such records were kept, Mississippi had to its discredit the highest
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	Ghosts of Mississippi - Compare Prices & Reviews at Smarter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Ghosts of Mississippi - Compare Prices & Reviews at Smarter
		Fueled by James Woods’s chilling portrayal of Klansman Byron De La Beckwith, the cold-blooded, unrepentant killer of Medgar Evers, GHOSTS OF MISSISSIPPI offers a compelling account based on the true story of the attempt to see justice served in spite of time, corruption, and a defiant community.
		Shop at Amazon.com for low prices on Ghosts Of The Mississippi.
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	Amazon.com: Ghosts Along The Mississippi: Books: Clarence John Laughlin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		This item is not eligible for Amazon Prime, but over a million other items are.
		Laughlin's comments are a bit flowery, but for the most part, he captures the spirit of this time in history.
		I think it is wonderful that people have restored some of these homes back to their original splendor, but the pictures and the history of the homes that have long since been destroyed are the most interesting and are truly the "Ghosts Along the Mississippi".
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0517006081?v=glance (877 words)

	Ghosts of Mississippi
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		"Rob Reiner's self-congratulatory Ghosts of Mississippi portrays Medgar Evers' slaying from the viewpoint of a white guy and can't even do a capable job of that."
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