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Bobby DeLaughter:
Ed Peters is a good man, but as you can see, we simply don't have case. Now, I know you've been living with this thing for a long while, but maybe it's just time you let it go. Myrlie Evers:
I can understand why you think that, Mr. DeLaughter. For years, I said the same thing to Medgar. "Let it go. Let's get out of Mississippi." Do you know what he said to me? "I don't know if I'm going to Heaven or to Hell, but I'm going from Jackson."
Ed Peters is a good man, but as you can see, we simply don't have case. Now, I know you've been living with this thing for a long while, but maybe it's just time you let it go. Myrlie Evers:
I can understand why you think that, Mr. DeLaughter. For years, I said the same thing to Medgar. "Let it go. Let's get out of Mississippi." Do you know what he said to me? "I don't know if I'm going to Heaven or to Hell, but I'm going from Jackson."
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Ed Peters is a good man
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but as you can see we simply don't have a case
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I know you've been living with this thing for a long while
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but maybe it's just time you
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Let it go
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I can understand why you'd think that Mr DeLaughter
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For years I said the same thing to Medgar
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Let it go Let's get out of Mississippi
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Do you know what he said to me
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I don't know if I'm going to heaven or to hell
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but I'm going from Jackson
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Movie Summary
A Mississippi district attorney and the widow of Medgar Evers struggle to finally bring a white racist to justice for the 1963 murder of the civil rights leader.

