Just days after the assassination of civil rights leader Medgar Evers in June 1963, Jackson, Miss., police traced the murder weapon to white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith. Bill Waller, then the Hinds County district attorney, tried Beckwith for murder, and when the all-white jury failed to reach a verdict, Waller did something unheard of In the old South-he tried Beckwith again, though with the same result. Waller, who died Nov. 30 at 85, went on to serve as governor of Mississippi from 1972 to 1976. A transformational figure, he appointed African Americans to top positions and recruited the first black highway patrolmen. After his death, Waller was called Mississippi's Atticus Finch, a fitting fictional comparison for a real Southern hero.
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机译：1963年6月，密西根州杰克逊被民权领袖梅德加·埃弗斯（Medgar Evers）暗杀数日后，警方将凶手归咎于白人至上主义者拜伦·德拉贝克维斯（Byron De La Beckwith）。当时的欣德斯县地方检察官比尔·沃勒（Bill Waller）试图以贝克威谋杀罪，当全白人陪审团未能作出判决时，沃勒做了一些闻所未闻的事情。在老南部，他再次尝试了贝克威，尽管结果相同。沃勒于11月30日去世，享年85岁。1972年至1976年，他继续担任密西西比州州长。他是一位具有变革性的人物，他任命非裔美国人担任最高职位，并招募了第一批黑人高速公路巡逻员。沃勒去世后，他被称为密西西比州的阿提克斯·芬奇，这是一个真正的南方英雄的虚构对比。
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