Robert Reiner’s “Ghosts of Mississippi” tells the story of how a white prosecutor named Bobby DeLaughter reopens the case in of Medgar Evers’ assassination in 1989 and eventually won a conviction against Byron De LaBeckwith, who had spent many years boasting about the assassination and not being convicted of the crime. The movie was released on December 20, 1996 and was later recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Art and Science in one category and an Oscar nominee for makeup. Actors such ad Alec Baldwin, James Woods, Whoopi Goldberg, Virginia Madsen, and Susanna Thompson starred in the movie. Darrell and James Van Evers, two of Medgar Evers’ children, acted in their actual roles in the movie. The family was very involved in the filming
