Robert "Bobby" DeLaughter was the protagonist of the 1996 film Ghosts of Mississippi. He is played by Alec Baldwin. Some 25 years after the death of lawyer and civil rights activist Medgar Evers his widow Myrlie Evers decided she had what was needed to bring the suspected murderer Byron De La Beckwith to justice. DeLaughter was an assistant attorney who decided to help her, even though it could damage his political aspirations.