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1. Evers’ killer watched for him from these bushes before he shot the civil-rights giant.

2. Evers was killed in his driveway.

3. An investigator finds Byron de la Beckwith’s rifle in the bushes.

4. Eudora Welty’s “Where Is the Voice Coming From?” was published in the New Yorker magazine in 1963.

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Eudora Welty: Reading a Murderer’s Mind

Eudora Welty only wrote one story in anger. She drafted it the day she learned of Medgar Evers' assassination.

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