Timeline Wednesday 12 June 1963

Events on Wednesday 12 June 1963 2

• 1925 – 1963 Medgar Evers (1925-1963) Died 12 June 1963, aged 37 Medgar Evers was a civil rights activist and NAACP field secretary who organized voter registration drives and boycotts in Mississippi. He was shot and killed outside his home in Jackson by a white supremacist. His murder galvanized the civil rights movement, and his killer was not convicted until 1994.
• 1963 Cleopatra premieres in New York Elizabeth Taylor epic becomes the costliest film yet made The historical epic Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, premiered after a famously troubled and expensive production. Its enormous budget nearly bankrupted 20th Century Fox despite strong box office returns. The film's off-screen romance between Taylor and Burton drew as much attention as the movie itself.