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...Else." The case against Beckwith, a Greenwood fertilizer salesman, hinged on a .30/06 Enfield rifle, found near a clump of sweetgum trees across the street from Evers' home in Jackson on the morning after the murder. A fingerprint of Beckwith's was found on the weapon's telescopic sight...
Prosecution witnesses identified the rifle as Beckwith's. One told of trading Beckwith a Japanese-made sight-identical to the one on the Enfield-in return for a revolver. An FBI expert swore the fingerprint belonged to Beckwith and to "no one else in the world...
While entering the Mineralogical Museum, smashing cases with sledgehammers and taking the gems, the thieves left two clear fingerprint specimens. The Federal Bureau of Investigation concluded that any of 17,000 people could have been involved in the crime. There were no other significant clues...
...Fingerprint. There had been almost no Negroes in the California town of Beckwith's birth. When, upon moving to Mississippi, he first saw a black man, he asked a relative: "When God made Negroes, did he cover them with mud and hang them on a fence...
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 weapon as Beckwith's. Arrested by the FBI, Beckwith was turned over to state authorities, who are demanding that he be sentenced to death...