Delaughter, Bobby

In "Never Too Late: A Prosecutor's Story of Justice in the Medgar Evers Murder Case" (Scribner 2001), Bobby DeLaughter-the assistant district attorney portrayed by Alec Baldwin in Rob Reiner's "Ghosts of Mississippi"-took readers through his fascinating, real-life journey in bringing to justice the assassin of civil rights pioneer and hero Medgar Evers decades after the murder. Among readers' reviews of "Never Too Late" "[A] great read, so compelling I could not put it down.... Mr. DeLaughter is widely described as very private, but in his writing he and his experience are so accessible the re...