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02399cam a22003134a 4500 |
| CONTROL NUMBER |
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11967781 |
| DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20060728223255.0 |
| FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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000407s2001 nyua 001 0 eng |
| LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
00030106 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781416575160 |
| CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
| Transcribing agency |
DLC |
| Modifying agency |
DLC |
| AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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| Authentication code |
pcc |
| GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
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| Geographic area code |
n-us-ms |
| LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
KF224.B34 |
| Item number |
D45 2001 |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
345.73/02523 |
| Edition number |
21 |
| AUTHOR NAME |
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| AUTHOR NAME |
DeLaughter, Bobby. |
| TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Never too late : |
| Remainder of title |
a prosecutor's story of justice in the Medgar Evers case / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Bobby DeLaughter. |
| PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Scribner, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
c2001. |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
313 p. : |
| Other physical details |
ill. ; |
| Dimensions |
23 cm. |
| GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Includes index. |
| SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
In June 12, 1963, Mississippi's fast-rising NAACP leader Medgar Evers was gunned down by a white supremacist named Byron De La Beckwith. Beckwith escaped conviction twice at the hands of all-white Southern juries, and his crime went unpunished for more than three decades. Now, from the author, one of the most celebrated prosecutors in modern American law, comes the account of his remarkable crusade in 1994 finally to bring the assassin of Medgar Evers to justice. This is the real-life story of the assistant district attorney, who brought closure to one of the darkest chapters of the civil rights movement. When the district attorney's office in Jackson, Mississippi, decided to reopen the case, the obstacles in its way were overwhelming: missing court records; transcripts that were more than thirty years old; original evidence that had been lost; new testimony that had to be taken regarding long-ago events; and the perception throughout the state that a reprosecution was a futile endeavor. But step by painstaking step, the author and his team overcame the obstacles and built their case. The book charts the course of a country lawyer who, concerned about the collective soul of his community and the nature of American justice in general, dared to revisit a thirty-one-year-old case, one so incendiary that everyone warned him not to touch it, and win a long-overdue conviction. His success in this trial stands today as a landmark in the annals of criminal prosecution. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Trials (Murder) |
| ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
01. English Non Fiction |
| LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC) |
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| d |
345.73 DEL |
| c |
410 |
