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Medgar Evers' Body Exhumed in Probe

June 06, 1991|\o7 Associated Press\f7

ALBANY, N.Y. — The body of civil rights leader Medgar Evers was exhumed and transported here to be re-examined as part of a renewed inquiry into his slaying, officials confirmed Wednesday.

Evers' body was exhumed Monday from Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, a U.S. Army spokeswoman said. She said the Jackson, Miss., district attorney's office, which has reopened an investigation into Evers' death, requested the exhumation.


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Evers was shot to death June 12, 1963, in front of his Jackson home.

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