Darrell had attended the trial with a goal as singular and furtive as his childhood determination to kill his father’s murderer with the toy gun Myrlie bought him. He wanted to force the coward De La Beckwith to look at his face and to see Medgar Evers staring back at him. “He never saw my father’s face” when he shot him, Darrell told reporters after the verdict. “All he saw was his back. I wanted him to see the face . . . to see the ghost of my father come back to haunt him.”
