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Stringent security measureslll be in effect throughout the
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DET. SGT. JOHN CHAMBLEE CONCLUDED HIS TESTIMONY RE CRIME
SCENE INVESTIGATION.
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L RE BECKWITH TRIAH TODAY. CAPT. RALPH HARGROVE, IDENTIFICATION
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TO DETERMINE AGE OF LATENT FINGERPRINT.
E-H. HAWKINS_,GREENWOOD,MISS., TESTIFIED SAW SCAR OVER BECKWITH/S
EYE SUNDAY PRIOR TO MURDER. _,
7 JAMES MC COY,SR., AND JAMES MC'COY,JR., GREENVILLE,MISS. ,TESTIFIED
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JAMES JONES,WONER NEON SIGN SHOP,GREEIUlO,'Q_D,I{,ISS-§"' WTIFIED SAW
BECKWITH WITH VALIANT AUTOMOBILEIN GREENWOOD,MISS., AT E1.EVEN
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BECKVITH JU:NE EIGHT, LAST, AT TRAILWAYS BUS TERMINAL, JACKSON,
THREE AND FOUR PM, AND THAT BECKVITH INQUIRED. ~
MISS" BETWEEN _
OF HIMAND ANOTHER CAB DRIVER WHERE NAACP LEADER EVERS LIVED. L -.-V_HEN SVILLEY UNABLE TO FURNISH THIS INFO, BECKVITH CHECKED
PHONE BOOK IN TRAILVAYS TERMINAL, AND ON THREE SEPARATE
PCCASIONS CAME OUT TO ASK WHETHER CERTAIN ADDRESSES MIGHT BETHAT 01-;,,=:vI-:Rs BUT on ALL OCCASIO,R$,»/ADDRESSES sac TH HA 6 /:4 ,>,-_.'. "<31./-;r-,~ BEG 10 7- 1239/ -llwan: IN;VHITE~NEIGHBORHO0D, IzsrIrIt as IDENTIFIED §§p§gIIy
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MASONIC EMBLEM HANGING FROM REAR VIEW mIRRoR. sTATEu on NIGHT or
-KILLING, AT ABOUT TEN THIRTY PM, sAw A wRITE VALIANT CIRCLING STREET
In AREA. TESTIFIED WAS AWAKENED av sudt AND SUBSEQUENTLY
WENT To EvERs HOME BUT sAw no ONE IN VICINITY wno WOULD BE
TIED IN WITH SHOOTING.
MRS. P. L. PITTMAN, WIFE or OWNER PITTMAN/S GROCERY,
TESTIFIED THAT on THURSDAY sEPoRE MURDER A MAN DRIVING LIGHT
COLORED SMALL cAR PARKED IN PARKING LOT AND WALKED AROUND IN
BACK or THIS LOT. THIS MAN WAS wEARIuG sun GLASSES AND WHITE
gnozs. u~ABLE_To IDENTIFY BECKWITH-AS THIS INDIVIDUAL AND
TESTIFIED UNABLE TO IDENTIFY BECKWITH AT PD LINEUP,
RONNIE MARK ACEY, AGE SIXTEEN, TESTIFIED WAS WITH
ROBERT PITTMAN NIGHT OF JUNE EIGHT, LAST, AND SAW SIXTYTWO
WHITE VALIANT WITH MASONIC EMBLEM PARKED ALONGSIDE PITTMAN/S
GROCERY. ' -
RONALD JONES, AGE SIXTEEN, TESTIFIED WAS WITH ROBERT
PITTMAN NIGHT OF MURDER, TESTIFIED SAW WHITE VALIANT WITH_
LONG ANTENNA TRAVELING ON LELTA DRIVE NEAR PITTMAN/S GROCERY,
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TESTIFIED HE THOUGHT HE SAW SAME CAR GENERAL AREA THE ,,
SATURDAY BEFORE. ' A
HERBERT SPEIGHT, CAB DRIVER, TESTIFIED ON JUNE EIGHT,
LAST, WHILE PARKED IN FRONT OF TRAILWAYS BUS TERMINAL WAS
APPROACHED BY INDIVIDUAL ASKING IF HE KNEW WHERE EVANS PAREN
NOT EVERS PAREN, THE QUOTE NAACP NEGRO UNQUOTE, LIVED. WHEN
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RESEMBLES BECKWITH. AND QUOTE IF IT WASN/T SBECKWITH, IT WAS
HIS TWIN BROTHER UNQUOTE AND QUOTE WOULDN/T SWEAR TO IT BUT
BELIEVE IT WAS HIM UNQUOTE. THIS WITNESS HAD PREVIOUSLY
TESTIFIED AT FIRST BECKWITH TRIAL THAT INDIVIDUAL WHO
APPROACHED HIM AT TRAILWAYS TERMINAL WAS POSITIVELY IDENTICAL_,_.
WITH BECKWITH. ON FURTHER QUESTIONING BY WALLER TODAY, SPEIGHT
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DETAILS CONCERNING THREATS. ASSISTANT DA JOHN FOX,lll,
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TESTIFIED THAT ON NIGHT SUNDAY JUNE NINE LAST SAW INDIVIDUAL GETTINGA
IN OR OUT OF BECKWITH/S VALIENT AUTOMOBILE WHILE IT WAS PARKED ON
LOT AJACENT TO GREYHOUND BUS STATION, GREENWOOD, MISS, CHARLES
BRANCH TESTIFIED TOLD BECKWITH, WHO WAS IN BUS STATION, ABOUT
THIS AND BECKWITH CAME OUTSIDE AND TALKED TO THIS INDIVIDUAL.
SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS TESTIMONY NOT FULLY DEVELOPED, HOWEVER _ '
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JOHN TURNER, OWNER, CLUB KATHRYN, LOCATED VICINITY
EVERS RESIDENCE TESTIFIED THAT HE WAS ARRESTED BY POLICE
FOR SELLING BEER AFTER HOURS TWELVE TEN AM, JUNE TWELVE,
LAST. STATED AT TIME OF HIS ARREST BARBARA HOLDER WAS
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DRIVE IN, ELEVEN FORTY FIVE PM, JUNE ELEVEN,-LAST, AND HAD V
SEEN VALIANT ON PARKING LOT, THAT DRIVE IN PAREN,
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MRS. DORIS SUMRALL TESTIFIED WAS WORKING LEE/S DRIVE
IN NIGHT OF SHOOTING, TESTIFIED SAW NO VEHICLES WAVING
DRIVE IN LOT AFTER SHOOTING OCCURRED.
JAMES L. HOBBY, NOW RESIDES MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, A TRUCK
DRIVER, TESTIFIED RESIDED IN JACKSON IN JUNE, SIXTY THREE.
TESTIFIED OWNED SIXTY WHITE VALIANT AND CUSTOMARILY DROVE
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TWELVE TEN AND TWELVE THIRTY AM, JUNE TWELVE, SIXTY THREE,
HE DROVE TO JOE/S DRIVE IN IN HIS VALIANT AND ATTEMPTED TO
GET CUP OF COFFEE. FOUND DRIVE IN CLOSED AND UNABLE TO
PURCHASE COFFEE, AS WALKING AWAY FROM DRIVE IN, DID NOT
HEAR A SHOT. SAW NO ONE LEAVING AREA OF JOE{S DRIVE IN,
TESTIFIED THAT SATURDAY NIGHT PRIOR-TO MURDER HE HAD BEEN
ON DELTA DRIVE IN HIS VALIANT PAREN PREVIOUS STATE WITNESSES
HAVE TESTIFIED AS TO OBSERVING WHITE VALIANT ON DELTA DRIVE
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DRIVING TIME FROM JOE/S DRIVE-IN TO GREENWOOD, MISS.. A DISTANCE OF
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SPEED LAWS. _ ~
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SWILLEY, CAB DRIVER, TOLD HIM AFTER FIRST BECKWITH TRIAL THAT
SWILLEY WAS NOT COMING BACK TO COURT AGAIN AS HE DID NOT GET
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2 RE MORNING SESSION BECKWITH TRIAL TODAY.
STATE CALLED FOLLOWING REBUTTAL WITNESSES:
_ DETECTIVE SGT. FRED SANDERS, JACKSON PD, TESTIFIED HE
TALKED TO GREENWOOD PD OFFICERS CRESSWELL AND HOLLEY PAREN
ARREST AND ALSO IN JAN., SIXTYFOUR, AND THEY DID NOT MENTION
TO HIM SEEING BECKWITH IN GREENWOOD, ONE ZERO FIVE AM
JUNE TWELVE, SIXTYTHREE.
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LEE HAVEN TOLD'HIM IMMEDIATELY AFTER SHOOTING THAT SHE HAD
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murder Jackson Negro leader Medgar Evers on June 12.
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Hardy Lott exactly an hour. in contrast to his appearance
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i Did you shoot Medgar; sat unlocked most of June 10-Evers?" asked Mr. Lott. ;at his firm's Greenville of?
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i --1 was in Greenwood." niurder weapon. "whether that
Benkwnn Sam .15 your rifle and scope?" 5
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the schools which he attend- "31 ""95 I hilvt? Owned. but?ed as a youth, the Deltan out-ll ¢°"|dn'l P°$iti92'¢1Y idemlfy!iiiiied iiis life iiiiiii his arrestithe rie or the scope." Beck-iF""s '35 ""'Y- "'5 "° 3"!
-on June 22 for the ambush?Wi"1 Said-
imiiiaer of the NAACP field: Before Beckwith took thesec,-em-y_ ~ I5 nd, a Memphis truck driv-
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lwounded in the first invasionfhf ¢°"1ft h¢_ had driven hiswave of Tarawa and had pre-§1 "0 valiant "fF° th¢..'1#=!'3=5T'-8tviously fought at Guadal '_ 4*" I
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; ii!-d have O look at the But James L. Hobby of 579eelender .. responded the pale; East Frank, employe of_ Gor-
but emphatic Beckwith. l've'd° T i sp°m Inc" 53. ! .h°been here for so one we harm parked in front of the drive-in.
or me to nn-nembe,-_" i prosecution witness earlierHe denied talking to twoisalq she 51"" a 1952 While
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ibrother" asked them for °°mPa"§' Cal'-
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to positively identify him. | Do you recall whether you;
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the Hobby car had no aerial, punctuated by comments from for 64-year-old unlocked homel5i'I" ' l° "°_° ° Miss Hmderi45¢ Z1-yea}-.Q]d pi-ogeeutor such ii few nay; P,-ion to me mm-_ said she saw in the corner and
,asked why Mr. llobbv waited May I nish my question?" He said his car, in WhiCl1 "'1'"* °°'tl1'°° "%@l<§=I1°t°;
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JACKSON, Miss.. Feb. 7.
.Judge Leon F. Hendrick sol-
emnly declared the spectacu-
' lar Beckwith murder trial a
mistrial at 11:30 Friday mom-
ing after 12 white jurors indi-
vidually advised the judge they
were "hopelessly deadlocked"
in reaching a verdict after ll
hours of deliberation.
United Press International
quoted a reliable source" as
saying the jury was split 7-5
for acquittal.
They reportedly had taken
20 ballots during discussions
since 1:05 Thursday afternoon
a table littered with photo-
graphs, documents, statements
and a 30-06 Enfield rie
E equipped with a six-power tele-
scopic sight.
The state argued Byron De
, La Beckwith used that weapon
to kill Medgar Evers," Missis-
sippi field secretary for the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored Peo-
ple. from akmbush gn June 12,
1963. Beckwith has'c0nsistent-
ly maintained his innocence.
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still have not reached a ver-
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putting on coats and adjusting
ties. They nodded in agree-
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believed additional delibera-
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"Your honor," replied Fred
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tried diligently. We could stay
here a week and never reach
a verdict." The remaining 11
answered -eieeiéarly as Judge
Hendrick repeated the ques-l
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for you to .get together in a
reasonable tuue,"'he told the
jury, I know you would tell
me so.'I declare a mistrial
in this case; that is r." I can
do. The defendant will be re-
manded to the custody of the
sheriff."
He dismissed the 12 mm:
who hurriedly packed their
suitcases and left the Hinds!
County Courthouse where they
had been secluded since Jan.
30. They were forbidden by the
judge to discuss their vote im-
passe.
Beckwith appeared drained
by the trial. He sat glum and
motionless.
Mrs. Beckwith, leaving the
courthouse. also was disap-
pointed. I planned to take
hipi home tonight," she sid.Ajzked if she would again lie a
id ily spectator at the re-t ial,sit}: said emphatically: I
"Yes, sir. i'm just like he
is; I'm an arch-segregatiom
ist."
Mrs. Evcrs, widow of the
slain integration leader, said
she had prepared a statement
in the event a decisive verdict
was reached, but the mistrial
caught her off guard. "I don't
think I should have anything
to say unless the person is
found g_uilty or not guilty."
There was no visible reac-
tion from the still courtroom
where more than 200 had
|waited to hear the verdict.
Within minutes, both defense
and prosecution attorneys be-
gan the task of preparing for
a re-trial.
Defense Attorney Hardy Lott
said following a conference
with the judge that the case
will be set for call on March1 indicate puqe, name of
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Seen in Greenwood At
' Time Of Slaying
By EDWARD P. MOORE JR.
Sbttlsl to The Commercial Maui
JACKSON, Miss., Feb. 5.-
The defense rested its case in
1 the Byron De La Beckwith
murder trial at 5:47 p.m. Wed-
nesday. '
~ The action came after Beck-
with took the witness stand in
a surprise maneuver and
swore he did not ambush Med-
gar Evers, Negro integrationist
leader shortly after midnight
last June 12.
He claimed that a gun simi-
lar to the weapon the state
charges was used to kill Evers
was stolen from him the night
before the slaying.
Q Arguments will open Thurs-
day morning.
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i The packed courtroom
gasped in astonishment when
the name "Byron De La Beck-
with" was called and the
f o r m e r fertilizer salesman
walked swiftly to the stand,
took his oath and was seated.
He was questioned by his coun-
sel, Hardy Lott, for 55 minutes,
answering deftly and with as-
isurance.
5 Mr. Beckwith," asked Mr.
i __'1W $111" né answered
',I}.'i-my. .~t.o92*- Did you shoot Medgar-
, ».l.ver:?"lThe former Marine Corps
Purple I-lear:4-_'£.'u92e_.r said he
received a cut over his right
eye during a target shooting
session before this Evers
business came up" when the
30-06 Enfields telescopic sight
recoiled into him. Three of his
fellow employes at a Green-
ville fertilizer company testi-
fied earlier Wednesday they
saw the cut before June 12.
The state had suggested the
cut resulted when Evers was
shot.
Beckwith denied being in
Jackson at any time near the
date of the shooting and added
that if his white Valiant, iden-
tilled by several witnesses as
being near the murder scene.
was in the capital city "1 have
no knowledge of it." "
The 43-year-old Beekwith told
the jury that he customarily
traveled with weapons, as
many as 30 to 40" in his car.
He admitted receiving an En-
field rifle from ltta Bena plant-
er 1'horne Mclntyre and trad-
ing for a telescopic sight at
Grenada.
I But Beckwith said he could
!1iOC with certainty identify a_
rie hidden in honeysuckle
-vines near the murder scene
as his.
Mr. Waller began his cross-
examination with questions
about letters in his possession,
some to newspaper editors,
which he said bore Beckwi'th's
signature. He asked the Deltan
if his expressions of segrega-
tion ideas were not made pub-licly. -fer-:§Ci@-title R1ii@.§i:olei1
I have_ been ygry pm-
nounced about my views con-
ceming segregation, constitu-
tional government, and states
rights," he answered calmly.
But the scion of an aristocratic
Mississippi family began to
squirm slightly as Mr. Waller
began reading.
From a letter bearing what
the district attorney said was
a 1957 date, he read and fur-
thermore, when I die, I'll be
buried in a segregated ceme-
tery. when you get to Heaven
you will find me in the part
that has a sign saying For
White Only. And If I go to
Hades, I'm going to raise hell
all over Hades till I get in
the white section."
Beckwith said the signature
looked like his.
1n earlier testimony three
Greenwood residents, two of
them police officers, swore
they saw the dapper fertilizer
salesman 50 minutes before
Evers' murder and 30 minutes
after in Greenwood. They said
they were posi 've in their
identifications.
Roy Jones, 3-year-old signmanufactuijp ', testified Beck-
with was in an alley near the
junction of Highways 82 and
49 preparing to pull out on the
highway at 11:45 p.m. He said
the area was lighted with flood-
lights and there was no do bt
the man was Beckwith.
Officers Hollis Cressv ll and
James Holley id th s ttedBeckwith atri?85 a.m. Jgge 12
filling his car with gasoline
near the same spot. Officer
Cresswell said they remem-
bered the time because one of
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Ruled Capable Of Defense' in Evers Murder Hearing '
'}'ron-i The Commercial AppealJackson. Niis., Bureau
JACKSON, Miss., Nov. 12.
The State Supreme Court Tues-
day ruled Byron De La Beck-
with is entirely capable of
standing trial" for the murder
of Negro civil rights leader
Medgar Evers and nullified a
prosecution order for a mental
examination of the 42-year-old
Greenwood salesman.
The 6-to-3 decision set aside
Hinds County Circuit Judge
Leon Hendricks order grant-
ing a state request for the ex-
amination. The prosecution
said it was seeking to deter-
,mine whether Beckwith was
lmentally capable of making a
=rational defense and also his
Ycondition at the time Evers
was slain Jar-e £2.-..
The issue was based on ax
counter-order of Rankin Coun-
ty Circuit Judge 0. H. Barnett,
in whose jurisdiction the state
hospital lies. barring state
psychiatrists from giving Beck-
_with a mental examination.
| Beckwitlfs attomeys protest-
ed the examination. contending;
ihe was capable of making a'
jrational defense and that the;
order for a general examina-
tion was unconstitutional. The!
;defense said Judge I-lendrick's
order placed Beckwith in the
position of affording Dist. Atty.
William Waller with testimony
to be used against the defend-
ant at the trial. _
When Judge Hendrick or-1
dcred the examination July 19,
defense attomeys said Beck-
with was ready for an imme-
diate trial~ar.d%smanded that
it be set at that time."The Supreme Court also or-
dered Beckwith returned to the
custody of t-he -iiim-is County
sheriff in Jackson. Judge Bar.-
nett had ordered him held in
the Rankin County jail at Bran-
don to retain jurisdiction pend-
ing setting of a trial by Judge
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Defense Attorneys Petition
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A Slaying Charge
JACKSON, Miss., Aug. 1.-A
UPl!A state judge has
ordered psychiatrists to stop
their mental examination of
Byron De La Beckwith, who"
is charged with murdering Ne-I
gro civil rights leader Medgar
Evers.
Circuit Judge O. H. Barnett
oi Carthage ordered the halt
pending a hearing on charges
that Beckwith is illegally and
unconstitutionally held in they
nearby state mental hospital..
The charges were made bydefense attorneys in a petitio I
to judge Barnett for a writ 0 1
habeas corpus freeing Bec'_
;with from the hospital in
order that he might be tried
quickly for the June 12 sniper
slaying of Evers. g
Judge Barnett agreed to
conduct a hearing on the pe-
tition at Carthage Aug. 9.
He signed an order Wed-
nesday directing Dr. W. L. Ja-
quith, the hospital director, to
have Beckwith in court for the
hearing and to refrain from!
examining him in the mean-
time. .
Jaquith said he would com-l
ply with Judge Barnett's orderon advice of the state attorney;
general's office.
_ Beckwith, 42, a segregation-
list from the Mississippi Delta,
ihad been undergoing examina-
itior. at the institution for one
-week. _
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lordered by Circuit Judge Leon
;Hendrick of Jackson on request of Dist. Atty; Wiiliart92F92,aller. Waller said there wasriason to believe Beckwitfvt,~s mentally inc0mpctcnLi'
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from The Fpmmrrciai AppealJackson. Miss.. Bureau
JACKSON, Miss.. June 25.-
Byron De La Beckwith Tues-
day was ordered held without
'bail in a preliminary hearing
at which.it was hinted that
-two white witnesses may later
testify they saw the person or
persons who killed 4 Negro
lb/ledgar Evers.
Jackson City Judge James
{Spencer ordered Beckwith, 42-
iyear-old Greenwood salesman,
{held without bond until the
|Hinds County Grand Jury can
}consider the murder charge
iagainst him next week. Beck-
;with pleaded not guilty just
lafter the two-hour hearing
Ibegan.
I Tuesday's scant reference to"
lpossible witnesses came wheniJackson Police Det. Sgt. John
,Chamblee testified under cross
iexamination that he "talked
{with people who said they
theard footsteps running from
lthe scene" Of the ambush slay-'
fing in a Jackson Negro resi-
edential area.
It was later developed that!
a white man and woman had
told investigators that they
were walking along the street
:.t the time of theshooting.
A young white girl identified
is t»,',ir.'ier Bishop was dis-.
ci ;.92_<.d as the person who had
-told *,-mice of th_e___::iunl_es'lpresence. _ 'Sergeant Chamblee. first"c offie-zuie zeach the *shooting
scene. testified that he foundno witnesses at the scene who
could identify the defendant.
. Judge Spencer rejected
Beckwiths defense counsels
pleas for release on groundsi
that the state had failed to
connect Beckwith with the
Evers murder other than by
circumstantial evidence. The
judge said a fingerprint iden-
tified as Beckwiths found on
a rifle near the scene of the
slaying was sufficient to bind
ihim over to the grand jury,
which convencs- Monday.~ ~ _-7
Capt. Ralph Hat-grove, Jack-
son Police Department identifi-
cation officer, testified he
found the fingerprint on the
rifle's telescopic sight and
turned it over to the FBI. The
print and the Japanese-made
siht mounted on the Enfield
3f.06 rifle were traced by tie
. 1331 to Beckwith.
Captain l-largrove also said
he did not believe the finger-
print found on the sight was
more than 12 hours old. The
gun was found shortly after}
Evers, 37-year-old NAACP~
Mississippi field secretaryf
was shot in the back early
June 12 just after he stepped
from his car in the driveway
.of his home.
FBI ballistics expert Rich-
lard Poppleton testified that
=rifiings on the bullet which
killed Evers were similar to
'those fired from an Enfield
rifle and "similar to no other
weapon in our laboratory."
He said the mutilated condi--_tion of the bullet prevented!
him saying positively it was:
fired from the Enfield rifle
found.
Hu,;I1 Cunningham of Jack-
son, membcr of Gov. Ross
.Barnett's law firm. Monday
joined in Beckwiths defense
along with Hardy Lott, Green-
wood city attorney, and
Stanny Sanders. a fg1;n"i_er_dis-
atri&Tu'fney of Greenwood.
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carries relatively minor penal-
ties. The charge permitted
FBI agents to make an arrest
and g;92'CS them a legal hold
over the prisoner ;92er.dir,',; til-
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be ttirncd over 10 J&Cl';¬m att-
thorltics as soon es ptzftk for
questioning and ling of |.:_*-famurder charges. . ' "J
Beelzwith was barn and
-reared in Greenwood and is
a member oi an old and prom-
inent Delta family. He via:
formerly a salesman for the
New Deal Tobacco Co. in
Greenwood.
Greenwood c i ' ize n 1 de-
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was bums as 'Dclay'as "er-
ccntrv " and outspoken in his
oppr» r-on to any form of de-
segremtion.l-lr '~.-pi wn'tt:n rwanv letters
to .l¢...L.-»n newspapers ar.'1_to
The ilnmmcrcial App<'¢92l da-
nozr-ting Chic! Justice Ear!
Warn-.1 and the Sup:'e.-HieCO:;;t, the National Assc<..:t-
tiou for the Ativzzncement of
Colored People and the Ken-
nedy Administration.
The FBI said he was a tr..-'.::-
ber of the Mississippi Citi::::s'
Council, a sc;'egat.l::r.i.¢~
group. ' - _ .
Evers. $7, was t. "
sippl field secretary '!92'.92ACP.
He was shot in the heel: '.-3.-
a sniper as he stepped {rain
his car in the driveway of his
home in Jackson shortly ather-midnight. "
A rie "was found in a honey-
suckle thicket in a vacant lot
across the street from Even?
home.
Hoover sanl Beck -ith was
found by connecting him with
the "Golden H;i9292'k. telescopic
sight on the mile recovered
at the murder scene. He and
FBI ngerprint expo:-is sub-
<»ouen'l92' identied a :~r int on
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Jackson authorities and the
lull lurilitics --I mr FBI lab-
oraimv and identification di-
visien,' including testimony of
lab and fingerprint experts
and FBI egents, would be
made available to them.
A Greenwood acquaintance
said fszlcwith, an ex-Marine,
had served as a sniper. Ha
also said Becltwith was a gun
collector.
The FBI said t/.'=:rine rec-
ords shozvcd D;-e'i:vrit".i was in
combat in the Guadalcanal and
Tarawa battles of World
War ll.
Beekwith and hf; wife. also a
Marine Corp: veteran. are
separated. They have a teen-
aged sea:
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JACKSON. lVfiss.State and
federal officers pressed their
search today for companions
of Byron de La Beckwith, who
was behind bars in the J ackson.
jail charged by the state 'ofTMississippi with the murder ofl
Mcdgar Evers. ' ;_
Still missing tn the hunt "orthose accused as killers of t}he
gration leader were "others
upknown." They are chargedaong with Beckwith in _ 8
separate fe d e r al complaint
rade public after the FBI ar-
r e s t e d Beckwith Saturday
night. < _
Beckwith, a 42-year-old to-
bacco salesman from Green-
wood, Miss.. talked with his at-
torneys, law partners Hardy
Lott and Stanny Sanders of
Greenwood, yesterday and was
returned to his cell after about
30 minutes.
He is being held withouti
bond. He will appear at 2 p.m.;
tomorrow before U. S. Com-
missioner John R. Countiss Ill.
The arraignment will be held
to determine if there is reason
to believe he and others con-
spired to deprive Evers of his
civil rights.
The Justice Department
plans to let the _-,St_ate _of ~MlS°sissippi have priority in d_oal-»
ing with Beckwith. A SpOK6S--
man said the federal govern-_
ment will recommend that he.
be released without bond oni
federal charges of conspiracy}
t ,"lnjui¬ ~a person seehm;-*3-iii
civil rights. '92Vith'this maneuver, the
waywiil be cleared"iur Beck-
with to be prosecuted on ai
murder charge by Mississippi
authorities, the spokesman ex-
plained.
Police found a 30.06 Enfieid
rifle of world War l vintage
near the murder scene.
Fingerprint Found
A six-power Golden Hawk
telescopic sight mounted on
the weapon yielded one good
fingerprint and led the FBI to
Beckwith.
Agents located the Ameri-
can importer of the Japanese-
made sight. He had imported,
15.000 of them.
They found five of the sights
went to Mississippi, all to a
Grenada gun dealer. One was
traced to Beckwith, a gun col-
le-_:tor, whom the FBI ques-
tii_'med Friday night without
ggtting any answers.
Saturday night at a meeting
arranged by Greenwood attor-
ney Yerger Moorhead, a rela-
tive of Beckwith, FBl agents
arrested Beckwith under pro-
visions of the 1957 Civil Rights
Act.
» "Beckwith and others un-
known conspiredto injure, op-
press and intimidate .Mcdgar
Evers in the free exercise and
enjoyment of rights and privi-
leges secured to him by the
constitution," the FBI said.
Evers was state field secre-
tary for the NAACP. .
- Capt. Ralph Hargrove, chief
of the Jackson Police Identifi-
cation Bureau, fingerprinted
Beckwith yesterday and found
again his prints matched the
one on the scope attached to a
.30 caliber rifle that fired the
fa-zai-shot:I 15.1.4 -ll _ t- Awas_ Hargrove -wn'o' rirst!
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Beckwith, a member oi th
segregationist Citizens Council,
face:
chamber if convicted on the
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day
He appeared calm yesterday
afterystate officials lodged the
murder charge against him.Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy
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Jackson detectives discov-
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his driveway, in a honeysuckle' - » -~ thicket near where officers be-
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as are the mayor, commission-
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l92/ledger Evens, NAACPght out by _chemicals
the gun in mid-morning
.Evers wa's shot "down" in
the shot was fired. The
Penalty '
death in the state's gas
of the Citizens Council,
in Greenwood, located in
and 30 miles from
nola, where the Citizens
cil was born in 1945. Lott
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County.
night by five FBI men.
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one exception ,_I_3,yron de La. Becltwith, a ' i 42-year-old Ma-
rine"uombat veteran, '"is"as
likely to be as calm and con-
trolled as anyone. j '
That one exception is the
;racial question. .
Mention negroes, said
Vincent Cascio, his fomer
,into a rage."
i Bcckwith is a gun buff
Friends in his home town of
iGreenwood said he fired guns
is from a pioneer Mississippi
family. He is a member of the
ll Sons of the American Revolu-
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_Beckwith, who worked as atobacco salesman for I0 years}took a job four months ago as
lsales agent with a fertilizer
firm. -
"He was a lop salesman,",Cascio said. "His territory was;
was liked by all the tobacrzo
merchants. He had a gift _!f
gab."
He './as born in Coiusa, Cal.,
his father's home state. His
father died when he was a
youngster, and his mother,Susie Yergcr Beckwith, a na-tive of Greenwood, returned to
her hometown to raise him.
When he was 11, his mother
died, and he moved to the
rambling Greenwood home ofhis uncle, the late William G.Yerger.
He attended Mississippi State
University for part of a year.Bcckwith has one son, a_.;!<.-_.<v_92: .. ,~ ;=
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ern family. She is a descendant
of Roger Williams, the founderof Rhode Island. She attended
Hunter College in New YorkCity and is a former Wave. .They have been divorced;
reconciled and remarried. Now
they are separated.
News of Beckwiths arrestbrought surprise and dismay.Mayor C. E. Sampson said: We have had our troubleshere. I don't know what this
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UPI!--A-circuit co-rt juglge Ur-de-.-those circumstances,
Monday granted a two-month Beckwith would be under the
delay before ruling on whether ¢l°"d °f_ he murder mdlct
Byron De La Beckwith must
go on trial a third time inment until some future action
were taken. ,
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,9? ambush $|aYi"S Oi NEBYO Beckwith, who was not pres-§
"leader Medgar Evers.
Judge Leon Hendrick ap-
proved a request "by Dist. Atty.
William Waller to postpone
term of Hinds County Circuit
Court. -" _
Bcckwith remained free n
10,000 bond set after h sent in the courtroom Monday,:
retumed to Greenwood soon|
after the all-white second
jury split 8-4 for acquittal. It
was his first da of freedomy
further action until the July since his arrest last June 23.
The jury deadlocked 6-6 in
the first trial.
Beckwith testified in his own i
defense during both trials, vig-
orously proclaiming he was in-Mmh%%i .- -
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-Byron De La Beckwith__Fri-
déy-was released from" jail
for the first time in l0 months
on a $10,000 bond following his
second mistrial for the murder
of Negro leader Medgar Evers.
Within two hours of the mis-
trial, the 43-year-old salesman
was led through a basement
corridor of the Hinds County
Courthouse, placed prone in
_the back seat of a car and
whisked away _by Sheriff Fred
Pickett and a deputy. At 3:15,
;n.m., the two officers and
Beckwith arrived at the Le-
flore County sheriff's office in
Greenwood.
Standing behind the court-
house after completing bond
arrangements, the jubilant for-
mer Marine said, lm anxiousf
to go back to work just as"
soon as possible and start
calling on the trade again." Hesl id he would return to his jobta; a fertilizer salesman.
Judge Leon F. Hendrick de-. _.-
- Fifisaa-_'ainutes, later, the.9 - judge set Bcckwith"s lJuii92'.l~ 'al*
$10,000 returnable to the May
term of court, and set ma-
chinery in motion to haveBeckwith released promptly.
Dist. Atty. William Waller did
not oppose bond as "he did
after the arrest. No bond
hearing was requested after
the first mistrial. !
The district attorney said a
third trial, unusual in Missis-
sippi, was not definite at this;
time" and added that futurel
events" including defense mn-tions and docket setting would
have to be taken into cosideration. LlHe noted the May term of
court, to which the case was
automatically continued, wasfor civil matters.
"I have no'reason to think it
wont, commented chief de-
fense counsel Hardy Lott when
asked if the case would be
tried again. But I never:
heard of its being done a third
time!. a,;
I don't think we could. pre =
sent what evidence we hav
any better than we did this
time," Mr. Waller said. "The defense's case was much bet-l clared the second murder trial
a mistrial at 11:40 Friday_
morning after the jury dead-ilocked 8-to-4 for acquittal§
during 10 hours of delibera-
tions.
The jurors quickly left the
courthouse where they hadbeen housed during the ll-day]
trial. The first trial ended
Feb. 7 with a 6-6 tie vote.
One of the jurors said the
12-man. all-white panel bal-
loted over and over" but.Iter this time since they had
more witnesses, more time toi
prepare to meet our case." 'Should the case be re-1
m_anded to the files without a»third trial, a legal authority
said Beckwith will be allowed
to remain free at a reducedbond but with the possibility,
of a future trial hanging overihis head. The source sgjr! only
voiding the indictnie'n't by the¢;:::.g¢'= would remove that
threat,failed to break the deadlock;
P-e.=1=.92.-.=&- showed no_;:mo-tion when the mi§'ial"was de-
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IMedgar Evers, and Mississippi
has been trying to extradite him
since late last year.
The Tennessee Court of Crimi-
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Beckwith should be returned to
Mississippi to stand trial.
Two days later, the Mississippi
attomey generals office asked
the appeals court to lift a stay
~ that allowed Beclcwith to remain
in Tennessee while he appealed
extradition. Bean led. areply to__
that request on June 6, noting'his
intention to appeal the appeals
court ruling with the Supreme
Court by the July 3 deadline.
Beckwith, who has vowed to
ght his extradition tooth, nail
and claw," apparently didn't wantBeckwith surprises
own lawyer
Evers slay suspegtseeks appeal right
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Byron De La Beckwith, ppaf-° "¥ . '°m9d that his stay of ex-t"d't'9" mlsht be dissolved, hasmed "5 ° m 8PPeal with the Ten-
nessee Supreme Court,forBeckwith led an applicationd Permission to appeal on Mon-By Without the knowledge of his
°°'~"'* 8PP°inted attorney, Russel]Bean of Chattanooga. "1 was justabbersasted and floored atrst." Debbie Mays, Q spokes-,}"92?¬';"£:y.f0P Bean's office, said
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solve the stay and they would
grant it and he would be gone to ,
Mississippi.
Evers, a eld secretary for the
NAACP, was shot to death on
June 12, 1963, in front of his Jack-
son, Miss., home. Beckwith was
tried twice by all-white juries in
1963, but neither could reach a
verdict, and the murder charge
was droppedin 1969. .
Howeyer, a second indictment
"was returned late last year in
Jackson after authorities said new
evidence had surfaced, and Beck-
with was arrested Dec. 17.
In his 26-page appeal brief,
Beckwith crossed out Bean's
name three times and wrote, :By-to wait for Bean to le the appeal, ron De La Beckwith Pro Se. Pro
Mays said. They were worried
that the Court of Appeals was go- yer.
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solute. Find someone who lends S10 tor $11, an: 301.7 will rein the presence of a hired hand of the the ruler c-' :-~.-;- -..-5-;'!'_:.
a small time i'11itatorM1owil| so-on Er-e-?'::r-1-1. 1.2." ' *2 1 :--'
himself. 2.- .e.r acts....
"Dear Mr. i-Zoskins: I had a math teacher : ..1 cor" ; - 1. :.=.tshe was forced tr: teach math. A :1-.-22%: re:-;I'1:r 1? =.=-:-:
school v¢'E:» av:-'.<i teach hSsr;r-_.- Fe r~..= 1 ~' ~ ~
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to a c.-ea:::-= :'t".Y:~.- public E-~';? _T '_- L .
know who Capiain John Strait: . '..'.". _~ 7~"=:"'f.~ -Shiite. ora Zionist. He wasa }'_n:: .- '-:';go'.ts :: cg? :r":;didn't know what a Phineas Priest was either.
"Dear Mr. I-loskins: The word "Phinel~.as" in Stror-;'s Conscr-
dance means "mouth of the serpent. H. E. - 3'-'faI'1orna
ED: Abraham came from the Chai:-:-:-s. the Che:-ass :3-Te
from the ancient Sumerians. along the Salt", :-"Jens.zites. Phcenirens. Endians. Greeks. E';",';t?a';~. The art-
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"Dear Mr. Hoskine l was reading the book of Jt.".:5.-ees and ran
across the following which merely .-e- enforces other like
scriptures:
"ll there is any man in Israel wk.-0 de: res to give rt; daughteror his sister :3 .. rhe Gentiles, he shat. s;.'rei'y' cfe . for .-'srae.'is holy to The And to t.::'s .'";~r== :'.: no .-'-'.-.-2". of daysand no c-=-=.--:.'.'=;-__1 and no ?org."r="- "-=1:-2 ~ "~::' .'-5.1. '. "zest
command the r:-'1i!-;ren ol Israel .'.~::r.".;.-.12.": : :1 _:..-'e ax .-ol their dacg/::ers to the Gent;/es 7-was s.".e..~ rt '3' ::<.~l:.any of the daughters of the Gent:'les; for iris o."s~_:-racers. to/srael lor it is unclean and accused" ::;*r!s:'ae'i;"i.~. iar rhere
will be plagues upon plagues, curse upon curse. and allpunishment and plagues and curses -.w/'1 come .. and if theyblind their eyes to those that commit uncleanness then shaltthe whole people together be punis1ed."Jubi/ees 30:6- 13
ED: Strangers bring plague. Plagues have almost destroyed
entire nations. Non-venereal syphi ; plague came from theIndians of Mexico. bubonic piagur :.-c-rn the Orient, blackplague from the Mideast. etc Pia.-1_ transgressing with
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§nl':-rmer is an informer to keep from prison himself? Are
in!ormer's crimes reviewed by juries? ll not - they certainly .
should be.
F-1?!-3T MlSSlLE; From! the Pentagon comes word that theI" -. _--ir-ist.-a::~:.". is planning to sell ti~e:-.=ct=r1r.~Yogy.or the
-=.-.1.-1;: .-ssile to re Soviet Union. This "s zr.-: earn-= Pat?-;:
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SI. ""e '20 bear menace must be made 1:>ei¬e=.-able to justify
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updated multi-billion dollar Patriot which will reqt.--re an up-dated etc. etc. etc. Smile! It's "the good life."- :'.':= .l
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TOE SUCKER: "At.1horities are preparing warrants for thearrest of a convicted toe sucker ...charged with three counts
.1 ..o.1-ran who r-;-ported Zhatarrianv-so -:.an*.+ I-3. -.-1 hccse1-; :;-__' fire.-."oc»:' Saturday c. -ered her $2? to s=.:-ct-: f.er toes.The woman refused.
.5 -12255: woman said she was v.';rx§ng '-'"/EC':'t¬Sd8ywhen a man reached for her loot.
"The 3rd incident occurred Monday when a man asked awoman in Cabot ...at the Sonic Drive-in .. to iet him suck hertoes.
" The man! pleaded guilty last fall to assault and harassmentcharges that stemmed from similar incidents last year. Hewas fined and put on probation." The Gazette. Feb 17, 1991
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JACKSON, Miss. -- A former Klanstnan
now living in Sevierville says he fears for him-
hisfamil if he testifies against a white _~~ ,_.._ - Y . . -supremacist accused of killing NAACP leader
Medgar Evers in Jackson 28 years 88°-
In a May 2 letter to Hinds County prosecu-
tors, Delmar Dennis said _ he won't IQSUIY
against Byron De La Beckwith. I
l-le also wrote that he is weary of dealing
with constant publicity about the case.
We all feel that we have suffered enough
for my stand and nobody gave a da,rnr1. $0_th@|'e
is no point in taking further H8145. D@nT"$~ 51-
wrote. ' _
He said he would become a potential target
of white supremacists known as Phmehs
priests," who consider themselves God's exe-
cutioners. I _ You don't know when they re §°"8 t_°
strike. They're not going to Warn Yfui D_e "!5said in an interview this week. NOU_1"'l8 *5
quite so dangerous as a religious fanatic whoDate: Friday, 5/24/91
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Dennis operates a small publishing house in
Sevierville.
Hinds County Assistant District Attorney
Bobby DeLaughter wouldn't comment Thurs-
day on Dennis letter.
Last May, Dennis provided prosecutorswith a break in reopening the Evers slaying
investigation. He told how he had heard Beck-
with brag at an Aug. 8, 1965, Klan rally near
Jackson about the killing.
An indictment Dec. 14 charges Beckwith,
70. with murder. Beckwith, of Signal Mountain,
Tenn.. remains jailed in Chattanooga. He is
ghting extradition to Mississippi.
Evers widow, Myrlie, said Dennis decision
was upsetting. I would hope witnesses would
have the strength to come forward with the
truth in pursuit of justice in this case," she said.
Beckwith's wife, Thelma, said Thursdaynight Dennis is dangerous ... He's guilty of ly-
in&Beckwit.li is going to come out on top. Ev-erybody loves him," she said.
Evers, field director for the state NAACP,
was shot to death June 12, 1963, outside his
Jackson home.
Beckwith was tried twice in 1964 for mur-der, but both trials ended when all-white juries
deadlocked.
He would face a life sentence if convicted.
The Phinehas priesthood is glowingly de-scribed in a 1990 book Vigilantes of Christe'n-dom by Richard Kelly Hoskins of LynchbiirgfVa. "
Hoskii-is compares members to Japanese
kamikaze pilots of World War IL
The book holds up as a hero the Biblicalcharacter of Phinehas, Moses great-nephew:
who killed a couple Hoskins maintains were
guilty of "race mixing."
Hoskins, who publishes a monthly newslet-
ter catering to white supremacists, could notbe reached for comment Thursday.
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Byron De La Beckwith. charged with the 1963murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, fears hecannot get a fair trial if he is returned to Mississippifor prosecution, his court-appointed attorney saidTuesday. People have told him that times have changed inMississippi, said Chattanooga lawyer Russell Bean,shortly after he argued against Beckwith's extradi-tion before the Tennessee Court of Criminal Ap-peals. i-le's afraid of the system there now."Beckwith, 70, has lived in Signal Mountain, Tenn.,near Chattanooga since 1983. He is charged with thesniper killing of Evers near Evers home in Jackson,Miss., on June 12, 1963. Two trials in 1964 endedwith hung juries when the all-white panels were un-able to reach a decision.During the 1960s a state-appointed SovereigntyCommission held sway in Mississippi. It screenedjurors on the basis of their racial attitudes prior toBeckwiths trials.Since the Sovereignty Commission was abolishedin the mid-1970s and blacks are serving on juries,
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He Beckwith! has made some very inamma-tory racial remarks," Bean said. I think it would behard for a black juror to disregard some of the thingshe's said." '
Prosecutors brought charges against Beckwithfor a third time in _Decem_b_er sayinggthe Pghad newi ~ evidence?!-te was indiE§_e§1bya Hirids¬Fun¥ty, Miss., "grand jury-and on a fugitive warrant andlater was held on a govemors warrant signed byGov. Ned McWherter. Beckwith has been in Hamil-ton County Jail without bond since his arrest.In his argument to the three-member appealscourt, Bean said extradition was improper becauseBeckwith was illegally arrested on a fugitive war-rant when he was taken into custody by HamiltonCounty authorities last December. Also, he main-tained that the extradition process was faulty be-cause McWherter failed to properly review docu-ments before signing a governor's warrant, which isnecessary if extradition is contested.Bean argued that for Beckwith to have been ar-rested on a fugitive warrant he would have to havebeen eeing to avoid prosecution. The crime was committed in'l963, Bean said. Byron De La Beckwith went to trial twice and wasnot convicted. He ran for election as lieutenant gov-ernor of Mississippi in 1967. The charges against himwere dropped in 1969. In no way has this man ed toavoid prosecution.
However, Kathy Principe, assistant state attor-ney general, countered that "within the meaning ofthe law" Beckwith is a fugitive. She said issuance ofa fugitive warrant is proper anytime a suspect isarrested in a state other than the one in which thecrime is committed.Bean said he wants a hearing in Hamilton Countyso that he can present evidence that Mcwherter didnot sufciently ieyi°_Y_$l_1§c.Qase. beforesigning thegovemor's warrant; -1-tie esaid-the ~paperw"ork' wassent from Mississippi on Dec. 21 and was signed byMcwherter on Dec. 30, a Sunday when few stateemployees were at work. It takes 30 to 60 days for a proper review insuch a situation," Bean said.He claims Mcwherter was not at his office duringthe holidays and was preparing to travel to NewOrleans where the University of Tennessee footballteam was to play in the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 1. If we can get a hearing, I intend to subpoena thegovernor and two of his assistants to question themabout these things," Bean said. _Bean charged that there was a secret agree-ment between oificials in Tennessee and Mississippito rush the proceedings because of pressure fromcivil rights organizations that want to see Beckwithprosecuted.
I think he Mcwherter! was getting a lot ofpressure in this case. Bean said. He said he has evi-dence that members of the Southem Christian Lead-ership Conference petitioned Mcwherter to cooper- ate in the extradition.
It was a hot potato and there were some in-structions to get this case and get this man out ofhere," Bean said.Principe acknowledged that McWherter signedthe warrant on Sunday, but noted that is not illegal.Also, she said if officials did speed up the proceed-ings, that too is not improper.
Beckwith, who has vowed to ght extradition tooth, nail and claw, is prepared to take the issueall the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary.Bean said. ~_ __ .-¢ .-,»._..
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SEVIERVILLE When Delmar Dennis was a
young man in Mississippi, he joined the Ku Klux
Klan, became an informant for_the FBI and helped
put away the killers of three civil nghts workers.
That good deed has come close to ruining him. he
$aY$- . - - lt has devastated my life. I was ordained a min
ister at the age or 18. and people I thought were my
friends tumed on me and never were my friends
again," he said. l have had a very hard time making
a living, and just about when everybody forgets
about it, something else comes up._The 8-!ln"_I6!'-,
sary of something. the movie Mississippi Burning.
and now this.
This is the arrest this week of Byron de la
Beckwith for the 1963 murder of Medgar Evers. A
long-overlooked statement Dennis made in a book
published in 1975 nally got noticed this year. and
Dennis will be a major witness in Beckwiths trial this
summer.
These days Dennis, who owns a printing company
in Sevier County. has gone back into the ministry. He
wears clerical garb and pastors a new Reform
Church congregation that meets in a Pigeon Forge
moteL
He is dreading going back to Jackson to testify.
I'll be doing a lot of praying to get ready for
that. he said.
He has been long been active in conservative
politics, and in 1984 was a candidate for pnesidentson
the ultra-right Amei'ican¢¥*%1Pticket.-~But beig 'a
conservative Christian identied with the civil right swnininq Office: *
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"l've stood alone. Whites reject-ed me as a traitor, blacks couldn't
embrace me because I was so con-servative. And I've never had athank-you letter from anybody.Not from the families of the victims
or anybody. Nothing. I've stoodalone. And it's been very lonely."The biggest reward he hasreaped from his involvement wassomething he overheard his son tella friend:
He said My dad Ls my hero, "Dennis said.
He says has not been able tobenet from helping make history. Sevier County people havenever been anything but nice, butit's a natural tendency for people toshy away from someone who'sidentied with controversy.
And my poor wife neverthought 23 years after she marriedme she'd still be dealing with front-
page stories and TV shows. The latest TV show after Dennisis "60 Minutes. He has been ap-
proached about doing an interview. I don't know about television,"he said. They edit and splice andput things together until they getup saying what they had in mind all
along." .
He says he keeps thinking someday this will be over, and I'llget a book published and go on thespeaking circuit. I have never madea dime off my experiences"- He never knew Medgar Evers,
but says almost everyone in Missis-sippi thought Beckwith killed him. He was a Klan hero becausethey believed he killed MedgarEver-s, Dennis said. He wasknown to brag about doing it, al-though I never heard him point-blank say he did it.
Dennis, 50. moved to SevierCounty in 1976. He had gained na-tional attention in I967 for testify-ing against the killers of three
young civil rights workers whosebodies were found in an earthendam near PhiladelphiJa,g_M_iss.,»the_.sy_ear after Evers was gunried downiii _tlie -1'-iriveway ofhis J5Eksonhome. - *
While Dennis was in his early20s. he was a Klan Titan adminis-
trative officer! who worked under-cover for 3 years as an FBI infor-' mant. He came to know Beckwith,
now 70, in the course of that work.
He describes Beckwith as a dan-
gerous, dedicated cheerleader for
violence.
Beckwith scares me, Dennissaid. The kind of raw hatred he ex-hibited is a frightening thing to see,and there were few people in theKlan as vicious. Klan work is hiswhole life, and while I have neverbeen impressed with his intelli-gence. he has spent his whole life
concentrating on what he is mostdedicated to - white supremacy."When Dennis first met him,Beckwith was stumping the state ina run for the ofce of lieutenant
govemor. He often urged youngerKlansmen to violence, Dennis says."He'd say you ought to get outthere and do some killing yourself.~ Kill from the top down, starting
with the President of the UnitedStates. " r
Twice tried for murder; _i_g_ theEvers killing, walkedjreeafter two all-white juries failed toagree on a verdict. Not long after,he spent several years in a federalpenitentiary for trying to smuggledynamite across the Louisiana stateline. Now_ a fertilizer salesman. liv-ing in Signal Mountain, he was rear-
rested this week in the Evers kill-ing, and will be tried late next
summer in Jackson.
The case was reopened primari-ly because of the work of a Jackson
newspaper reporter whose researchunearthed evidence of misconductin Beckwith's trials. The reporteralso came across something Dennissaid in a 1975 book about his expe-riences called Klandestine."
Killing that nigger gave me nomore inner discomfort than our92
wives endure when they give birthto our children," Dennis recalledBeckwith saying, without speci-eally mentivnias £.§Y§f"§éf-°%W§1;3Skthem to do-thatforusfWe*sh5iild dojust as much." _. Why did it take so long for thequote to be noticed and the case re-
opened?
Dennis cites-a number of factors.It's a new day in Mississippi, hesays. In I964, blacks couldn't serveon juries because jury lists weredrawn from voter's roles, andblacks weren't allowed to vote. Infact, it was Evers' work registeringhis people to vote that led to hisdeath, Dennis said. .Given the violence of the peoplehis testimony will offend, Dennissays he worries about his family's
safety. .
Local law enforcement authori-ties have offered to help, and agentsfrom the Knoxville FBI bureauhave gauged their response time tohis home.
But his main line of defense, he
says, is his faith.
There is a small bronze statue inhis ofce inscribed with the wordshe says have been his shieldthrough the years since he left Mis-
sissippi.
No weapon formed against youshall prosperfj,
Frozen in bronze, sword poisedto nish off the fallen Goliath, Davidstands triumphant over his enemy. I keep hoping David's going towin one, Dennis said.
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"-'. CHATTANOOGA White suprema-
cist Byron De La Beckwith was released
on $15,000 bond Tuesday pending a Feb-
ruary hearing on whether he should be
returned to Mississippi to stand trial athird time for the 1963 slaying of civil
rights leader Medgar Evers.
The 70-year-old Beckwith, who now
lives on nearby Signal Mountain, was in-dicted on a murder charge again by a
Hinds County, Miss., grand jury in the
Evers case, District Attorney Ed Peters
said Tuesday in Jackson, Miss.
Appearing with his wife, Thelma,
Beckwith told General Sessions Court
Judge Horace L. Smith that he intended
to fight any effort to extradite him to
Mississippi.
Im going to resist it tooth, nail and
claw," Beckwith said. Because I thinkthat all this is" nonsense, poppycock and
'ust something to stir the people up
d incite the lower forms of life to force
d violence against the country clubs.
Beckwith was tried twice in 1964 in
he slaying of Evers, who was eld sec-
etary for the NAACP when he was
lied by a sniper's bullet infront of his
ackson, home on June 12, 1963.
Each trial ended in a deadlocked jury
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Assistant Hamilton County prosecu-tor Rodney Strong asked Smith to with-hold bond or at least set it higher on
grounds that Beckwith posed a threat to
others associated with the case.
Strong, noting that Beckwith had a
passport and had once made plans to vis-it a friend in Mexico, also expressed fears
that the defendant might jump bond to
avoid returning to Mississippi.court-appointed attorney, Russell Bean,who argued that the Beckwiths, who
have lived on Signal Mountain for seven
years, did not appear to be a threat toee. - .
I have no evidence he's going to run
or he's apt to run. said Smith.
The judge ordered Beckwith to returnto cotu't on Feb. 22 for a hearing to con-
sider whether he should be returned toMississippi on a warrant by Gov, Ray
Mabus.
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