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Feb 25, 2013 · Filmmaker Paul Saltzman says he was surprised by the charm and openness of his one-time assailant and unrepentant racist Delay De La Beckwith, seen here in The Last White Knight.
The Last White Knight is a documentary by Canadian filmmaker Paul Saltzman about his meetings with Delay de la Beckwith, son of Byron de la Beckwith, who assassinated Medgar Evers. In the film, Saltzman also interviewed Harry Belafonte, Morgan Freeman and others active in the civil rights movement. Belafonte's line, “People tell me that ...
Byron De La Beckwith Jr. (November 9, 1920 – January 21, 2001) was an American white supremacist and member of the Ku Klux Klan who murdered civil rights leader Medgar Evers on June 12, 1963 in Jackson, Mississippi. In 1964, he was tried twice on a murder charge in Mississippi.
Byron De La Beckwith, whose father murdered Medgar Evers, is the very human face of intolerance in Saltzman’s film.
One of the first days he was there he was assaulted by a group of young men led by Byron “Delay” De La Beckwith, the son of the man convicted of killing civil rights activist Medgar Evers. Decades later, Saltzman returns to the south to meet with Beckwith and see what, if anything, has changed in the New South.
May 17, 1992 · And on Sept. 8 he is scheduled to begin prosecuting the white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith for the assassination of the civil rights leader Medgar Evers -- a crime committed 29 years ago.
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Jul 31, 2013 · The Last White Knight: Directed by Paul Saltzman. With Delay de la Beckwith, Jim Ingram, Donna Ladd, Jimmie Travis. In 1965, 21-year-old Torontonian, Paul Saltzman drove to Mississippi, volunteering as a civil rights worker with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.
