Ghosts of Mississippi
Streaming video - 1996
In 1963 civil rights leader Medgar Evers was murdered in his owndriveway. For 30 years his assassin has remained free. Alec Baldwinstars as a dedicated young trial lawyer, and Whoopi Goldberg stars asthe widow of renowned civil rights leader Medgar Evers in the truemurder story GHOSTS OF MISSISSIPPI. On June 12, 1963, an assassin'sbullet kills Medgar Evers. But nearly 31 years pass before his killerfaces justice when Attorney Bobby DeLaughter (Baldwin--The Juror, TheShadow) risks his career and his marriage to reopen a case nobodybelieves he can win. And though her goal has seemed hopeless, MyrlieEvers (Academy Award winner Goldberg--Ghost, The Color Purple) remainsundaunted in her decades-long quest for a murder conviction againstByro...n De La Beckwith (James Woods--Casino, Nixon), her husband's killer.Together, Evers and DeLaughter beat the odds and rewrite history.
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- Genres
- Feature films
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
Warner Bros
1996.
2021. - Language
- English
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- Online Access
- A Kanopy streaming video
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- Title from title frames.
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In Process Record. - Physical Description
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (131 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Format
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Access
- AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).