LA Jewish Film Festival to Feature THE LAST WHITE KNIGHT to Commemorate Assassination of Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evans

The LA Jewish Film Festival, will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the assassination of civil rights leader Medgar Evers with the screening of THE LAST WHITE KNIGHT: IS RECONCILIATION POSSIBLE?  The Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival will run June 1 – 6, 2013.

THE LAST WHITE KNIGHT: IS RECONCILIATION POSSIBLE? discusses Paul Saltzman’s experience as a civil rights worker in Mississippi in 1965 and his return in 2007 to find the KKK member who had assaulted him.  Is reconciliation possible? His assailant was Byron de la Beckwith Jr., whose father, Byron de la Beckwith Sr., murdered NAACP Field Secretary Medgar Evers

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