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Byron De La Beckwith fancied himself a real Southern gentleman. He dressed with casual care, always bowed deeply from the waist when passing friends, punctuated his drawl with soft "suhs." It therefore came as a consider able shock to some of his Greenwood. Miss., acquaintances when "Delay" (after his middle...
Such obsessions-if the criminal charges against him are correct-led Beckwith to the assassination of Negro Leader Medgar Evers. In the honeysuckle patch where the killer hid, police found an abandoned rifle. FBI agents traced its ownership to Beckwith, a gun collector; they also identified a fingerprint on the...
Yet for all his obviously weird ways, Beckwith still has his defenders in Greenwood. A local fund drive is under way to pay his legal expenses. Declares a Greenwood businessman: "I say the shooting of Evers was a patriotic act. If Delay pulled the trigger that night, he must have...
The death of Medgar Evers bears down on the consciences of so-called whites throughout the world.
GREENWOOD, MISS. FBI agents arrested Byron de la Beckwith, 42, member of a white segregationist Mississippi Citizens Council, in connection with Medgar Evers' ambush slaying (TIME, June 21). J. Edgar Hoover said that the "Golden Hawk" telescope similar to that on the assassin's rifle had been traced...