Medgar Evers Assassinated in Driveway by Byron De La Beckwith

NAACP Mississippi field secretary Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a high-powered rifle in his driveway in Jackson, Mississippi, dying within the hour. White supremacist Byron De La Beckwith was twice tried and twice acquitted by all-white juries in 1964. He was not convicted until 1994.