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Twice in 1964 Beckwith walked free after all-white juries deadlocked. Indeed, exactly 30 years ago to the day -- Jan. 27 -- Beckwith's first trial had begun. Back then Mrs. Evers sat in this same Hinds County courtroom and saw former Governor Ross Barnett embrace Beckwith in full view of the jury. She watched while Beckwith, a fertilizer salesman and expert marksman, winked, smiled and clowned through both trials. But today "Delay", as his friends call him, now 73, sat stonefaced. In his lapel he wore a Confederate-flag pin. He strained to hear Mrs. Evers as she recounted...
...students, Anthony A. Ball '86 and John N. Ross '87, suggested the implausible...
...same time, Ross and Ball began to get inklings that the phones in their rooms were being tapped. Ball claimed he heard clicking sounds on his phone. And when the two students joked over the phone on a Thursday night about the possibility of taking over University Hall, Dean of students Archie C. Epps III asked them about it the next...
...Ball and Ross, who watched from a darkened fourth-floor room in Pennypacker, had all the evidence they needed. They filed a written complaint with Epps charging the University with tapping their phones in violation of federal law, and made their grievance public...
Considering the new information, bold statements made in May 1985 by Steiner appear now in a different light. The general counsel charged then that Ball and Ross had engaged in "politically motivated fabrications...