1959 racial slaying of Mississippi teen could get fresh look

Wednesday, August 22, 2018

CORINTH, Miss. -- Eberlene King remembers her 15-year-old brother as he lay dying, after white teenagers cruised through their black neighborhood in a pickup on Halloween night 1959 and shot him in the face.

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