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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 names) Beckwith, 42, was charged last week with the slaying of N.A.A.C.P. Leader Medgar Evers. Said Greenwood's Mayor Charles E. Sampson: "We are just stunned. I don't think he's the type. He would always greet you with a smile...
Beckwith's paternal grandfather helped develop Lodi, Calif., south of Sacramento, where he served as the first postmaster. Beckwith's mother, one of Greenwood's prettiest, most popular girls, went to California to visit an aunt, married Beckwith's father, a real estate agent. "Delay" Beckwith was born in California...
...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 to Beckwith, whose fingerprints checked with those on the murder weapon...
...jail. The march began a few minutes past 1 o'clock, led by Comedian Dick Gregory, from the 16th Street Baptist Church. When a policeman demanded his parade permit. Gregory spoke softly-in contrast to his wisecracking smart talk to cops during last month's Greenwood, Miss., voting registration demonstrations. Gregory and 18 teen-agers in his protest platoon were herded into a paddy wagon. In squads of 20, 30, and 40, more youngsters left the church, were shoved into paddy wagons and taken to jail. Bull Connor arrived and yelled at a police captain: "I told...
...Mississippi Negroes who have been registering voters in Greenwood, Miss., will describe their experiences tonight at 7 p.m. at 2 Divinity Ave. As field workers for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, they were instrumental in organizing the widespread registration campaign throughout the state...