Dan Rather pointed out on Twitter that today is the date in 1963 that Medgar Evers was killed. Phil Ochs’s “Ballad of Medgar Evers” is an easy way to get a high-level introduction to his story. www.youtube.com/watch

“While we waited for the future, for freedom through the land, the country gained a killer, and the country lost a man.”

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