Robert "Bobby" DeLaughter is a prosecutor, judge, and author notable for prosecuting and securing the conviction of a white supremacist and Klansman who was convicted of assassinating what civil rights leader?
Byron De La Beckwith Byron De La Beckwith, Sr. (November 9, 1920 – January 21, 2001) was an American white supremacist and Klansman from Greenwood, Mississippi, who in 1994 was convicted of assassinating civil rights leader Medgar Wiley Evers on June 12, 1963. Two previous trials in 1964 on this charge had resulted in hung juries. Seven years after being convicted of killing Evers, De La Beckwith died in prison in 2001 at the age of 80 while serving a life sentence.
Bill Hunter (journalist) William Bradley "Bill" Hunter (November 2, 1928 - April 23, 1964) was an American crime reporter for the Long Beach, California "Independent Press-Telegram". Hunter's 16-page special on the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby, "Three Days in Dallas", was awarded the 1964 "spot news reporting" award of the California Newspaper Publishers Association's "Better Newspaper Contest". A native of Wichita Falls, Texas, Hunter had previously worked as a court reporter there for five years before becoming a crime reporter. On March 22, 1964, Hunter wrote a story for the "Press-Telegram" saying that Oswald had "assuredly" killed Kennedy.