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...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...
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...
BOSTON. More than 3,000 chanting Negroes and whites gathered on Boston Common to hear Negro speakers eulogize murdered Integration Leader Medgar Evers. Democratic Governor Endicott Peabody, who decreed "Medgar Evers Memorial Day," gave state employees two hours off to attend the rally...
...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 to Beckwith, whose fingerprints checked with those on the murder weapon...