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		The chapters depicting Beckwith's various trials for Evers' murder (hung juries were the result) are the most compelling, although a later, ill-fated run for lieutenant governor, fueled by his growing resentment of fls and Jews during the 1970s and 1980s, comprises a masterly portrait of a man unable to cope with events passing him by.
		Biography of Byron De La Beckwith, the presumed killer of civil-rights martyr Medgar Evers: in spite of its flaws, a grim reminder of the hate groups that have plagued the movement for racial justice.
		Byron De La Beckwith, known as ``De La,'' was born in California to a drunken father and an unstable mother, both with exaggerated notions of their social status.
	members.tripod.com /~LisaCowley/books.html (1330 words)

	BECKWITH v. ANDERSON, 3:99-CV-413BN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Beckwith further relies on a series of Mississippi state court cases to support his argument that Respondents carry the burden of proving that Beckwith caused the trial delay.
		Beckwith alleges that from the time of the second mistrial in 1964, until the re-indictment in 1990, defense witnesses died or became unavailable; witnesses, including Beckwith himself, lost their ability to remember key facts and events; and critical exculpatory evidence was lost.
		Beckwith supports this argument with the fact that defense witness Hobby was not allowed to testify while prosecution witnesses who were the subjects of alleged discovery violations were allowed to testify.
	home.olemiss.edu /~llibcoll/ndms/beckwith.html (15752 words)

	Racist Murderer Flaunted His Guns In '56 Application AP 21jan01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The letter Byron De La Beckwith wrote in 1956 was included in 1,800 pages of documents released Thursday from the files of the Sovereignty Commission, a state-funded agency that was pledged to preserve the status quo in the segregated South.
		Beckwith was put on trial twice in 1964 for killing Evers, who was gunned down in his driveway June 12, 1963.
		The Beckwith documents were included in the third and final cache of papers released by the state, which created the commission in 1957 to keep tabs on more than 87,000 people who were suspected as subversives and civil rights sympathizers.
	www.mindfully.org /Reform/Byron-DeLaBeckwith-Racist.htm (238 words)

	The Byron De La Beckwith Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		De La Beckwith had told Barrett that he was "President of the Confederate States of America." A copy is sent to De La Beckwith.
		May 5, 1998: De La Beckwith writes to Barrett stating that the logo on the envelope of The Nationalist Movement is causing consternation among the 90% Negro prison population and he asks that Barrett write to him on legal stationary, so that his mail will not be opened, as well.
		October 25, 1998: De La Beckwith writes to Barrett, enclosing a copy of Stoner's letter, stating that Barrett's writings are "the most sensible and courageous that I have ever seen in print." He bewails that "other rightist groups have fallen by the wayside" and asks Barrett to take his case.
	www.nationalist.org /docs/history/beckwith.html (2811 words)

	Byron De La Beckwith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Byron De La Beckwith (November 9, 1920 – January 21, 2001) was an American white supremacist and the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
		In a third trial in 1994, Beckwith was convicted of the murder of Evers on June 12, 1963 in Jackson, Mississippi, based on new evidence that he had boasted of the killing at a Ku Klux Klan rally.
		Scott, R. Glory in Conflict: A Saga of Byron De La Beckwith.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Byron_De_La_Beckwith (391 words)

	myrlie Evers-Williams
		De La Beckwith, a 42-year-old fertilizer salesman, was an outspoken opponent of integration and a founding member of Mississippi's White Citizens Council.
		She produced it, and in 1990, Byron De La Beckwith was reindicted for the murder of Medgar Evers, after new witnesses stepped forth to dispute his alibi.
		At that time, De La Beckwith was jailed after police searched his car and found a bomb, other weapons, and a map to the New Orleans home of a prominent member of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith.
	www.edwardsly.com /everswm.htm (2579 words)

	VPC - Where'd They Get Their Guns? - Jackson, Mississippi
		Byron De La Beckwith, an outspoken racist and white supremacist, killed civil rights leader Medgar Evers at his home as he was getting out of his car.
		Though Beckwith was not convicted in the 1960s (two juries could not reach a verdict), the case was reopened in 1990 and he was convicted of the crime in 1994, 31 years after the shooting.
		De La Beckwith was a gun collector and legally owned a variety of weapons.
	www.vpc.org /studies/wgun630612.htm (217 words)

	The Murder of Medgar Evers
		Byron De La Beckwith was convicted of murdering Evers in 1994, 30 years after the fact
		Beckwith was tried twice in 1964, and in both trials the all-white juries remained deadlocked.
		His life thereafter reveals a man clearly unbowed (in 1967, Beckwith ran for lieutenant governor of Mississippi, placing fifth among the six candidates) and entrenched in violence (in 1973, he was sentenced to a five-year prison term for possession of dynamite).
	www.factmonster.com /spot/bhmjustice2.html (230 words)

	Bob Dylan Who's Who
		Byron de la Beckwith knows "But when the shadowy sun sets on the one that fired the gun" in Only A Pawn In Their Game is directed at him, though he was not proved guilty by two all white juries.
		De la Beckwith was only finally found guilty three decades after the incredible murder he committed.
		At 73 Byron de la Beckwith was convicted and sentenced to life in prison on 6 February 1994.
	www.expectingrain.com /dok/who/z/zantzingerwilliam.html (1516 words)

	Woodbridge Dam
		Byron De La Beckwith was an early Lodi settler with many talents and a profound vision for the future.
		Byron Beckwith grew up in Virginia, but as a young man he yearned for the rich promise of frontier California that everyone back East dreamed of in the Gold Rush years of the 1850s.
		Beckwith received all mail in his drug store across the street from the train, and residents came down to pick up and send out their correspondence and packages.
	www.woodbridge.us /history08.htm (1249 words)

	Byron De La Beckwith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Beckwith died Sunday night at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson and an autopsy was being performed Monday to determine the cause of death.
		Beckwith was convicted in 1994, 31 years and three trials after Evers was murdered.
		``Beckwith was the epitome of evil, who forever embraced racism and hatred, and who caused so much pain and suffering of so many people,'' Evers-Williams, former national chairwoman of the NAACP, said in a statement Monday.
	members.aol.com /deathpool/obits01/delabeck.html (290 words)

	Convicted Assassin Beckwith Dies (Associated Press)
		Beckwith was convicted at a third trial in 1994 after two mistrials three decades earlier.
		Beckwith was arrested Dec. 17, 1990, and when he stood in front of a new jury in 1994, he was 74 years old.
		Beckwith, a white supremacist, wore a Confederate flag pin on his lapel throughout the 15 days of jury selection, testimony and deliberation.
	www.jessejacksonjr.org /issues/i012201236.html (506 words)

	Byron De La Beckwith plans to Appeal
		J A C K S O N V I L L E, Miss., Dec. 23 —Byron De La Beckwith is ready to go as far as the U.S. Supreme Court now that Mississippi’s highest court has refused to overturn his conviction in the slaying of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
		Beckwith, a fertilizer salesman, claimed he was 90 miles away at the time, but his fingerprint was found on the scope of a rifle believed to be the murder weapon.
		Byron De La Beckwith, then 24, is escorted into the Jackson, Miss., police station on June 23, 1963.
	members.tripod.com /~LisaCowley/news1.html (558 words)

	James Woods is the Ideal Actor to Play Carl Tilley the Con Man When That Story Becomes a Movie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Woods is cast as Byron De La Beckwith, who murdered civil rights leader Medger Evers but was not brought to justice until thirty years after the crime.
		Beckwith even lived in Tennessee (where he was entered).
		Beckwith was also up in years by the time he was nailed.
	www.greaterthings.com /News/tilley/fraud/ByronDeLaBeckwith/index.html (648 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Opinion :: Finally, the Sixties Are Over
		On June 12, 1963, Byron De La Beckwith aimed and fired his deer rifle at the Mississippi field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and a father of three.
		But De La Beckwith, twice tried by all-white juries in 1964, was never convicted of the crime--that is, until last Saturday, when a jury of eight fls and four whites needed only six hours of deliberation to declare him guilty as accused.
		With Byron De La Beckwith about to live out his last days in jail and the United States about to embark on an economic relationship with Vietnam, a decade--and with it, a mindset--has passed on.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=242088 (654 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Never Too Late: A Prosecutor's Story of Justice in the Medgar Evers Case at ...
		With the help of district attorney Ed Peters, Delaughter and his staff reopened the case against Beckwith and secured a conviction and a sentence of life in prison for Beckwith in 1994.
		Beckwith died earlier this year at the age of 80, having only served 7 years.
		Their desire to re-prosecute Beckwith was based solely on the belief that a murderer should pay for his crime.
	www.epinions.com /content_19126587012 (1086 words)

	Online NewsHour: Pursuing the Past -- The Medgar Evers Assassination
		The suspect in his murder, white supremacist Byron De la Beckwith, was quickly apprehended.
		Byron De la Beckwith was tried and acquitted twice in 1964 in connection with the Evers case, with all-white juries on both occasions.
		Commission documents, kept sealed in the Mississippi Department of Archives from the time of the disbanding until 1989, indicated the possibility of jury tampering and official misconduct in Byron De la Beckwith's second trial.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/media/clarion/kc_evers.html (634 words)

	BECKWITH CONVICTION SHOULD BE UPHELD, SAYS ADL AMICUS BRIEF
		New York, NY, July 31, 1995...The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today filed an amicus curiae brief urging the Mississippi State Supreme Court to uphold the conviction of Byron de la Beckwith for the murder of Medgar Evers in 1963.
		State of Mississippi, Beckwith claims the conviction should be overturned because his right to a speedy trial was denied.
		In 1994, Beckwith was convicted of the murder; he had been tried twice in 1964, but both times all-white juries failed to convict him even though the evidence linking him to the murder was overwhelming.
	www.adl.org /presrele/cvlrt_32/2514_32.asp (253 words)

	Byron De La Beckwith, convicted assassin of Medgar Evers, dies in prison: 1/23/01
		Byron De La Beckwith, convicted assassin of Medgar Evers, dies in prison
		Beckwith, 80, died Sunday night at University Medical Center where he had been taken from his prison cell.
		Beckwith had a history of high blood pressure, heart problems and other ailments.
	www.s-t.com /daily/01-01/01-23-01/a14wn086.htm (174 words)

	DVD Review - Ghosts Of Mississippi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Evers is dying in a pool of blood in the arms of his wife and his three little children who watch in horror as their father passes away.
		Although De La Beckwith is the prime suspect in the following case, a friend of his produces an alibi for the racist and after two trials, both resulting in hung juries consisting entirely of white jurors, the case is dismissed from the courts and the murderer walks free.
		It is sickening to know that people like Byron De La Beckwith are still walking the surface of the Earth on this very day, and that the 30 years that have passed in the movie don’t have changed really that much in the social attitudes.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/ghosts_of_mississippi.shtml (1143 words)

	Jerry Mitchell: Crusading for Justice Long Overdue - Human Rights Magazine Fall 2000
		De la Beckwith was convicted in 1994, thirty years after two previous hung juries had failed to hold him responsible for the killing.
		In Mississippi, lawyers for Byron de la Beckwith attempted to have his conviction overturned on speedy trial grounds, but the Mississippi Supreme Court-in a much-watched opinion-held that de la Beckwith's rights were not violated, in part because state officials secretly assisted his defense attorneys screen jurors.
		His voice lowers almost to a whisper as he points out the location where Byron de la Beckwith hid with a high- powered rifle, waiting for Evers to arrive home from a day of organizing would-be voters.
	www.abanet.org /irr/hr/fall00/johnson.html (1558 words)

	TIME.com: A Little Abnormal -- Jul 5, 1963 -- Page 1
		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.
		When Beckwith was five, his father died of what the death certificate termed "pneumonia and alcoholism." The widow returned to Greenwood with her son, was hospitalized several times for mental ailments, died of cancer at 47.
		Says a Greenwood merchant: "Beckwith was reared in the sort of place white people ought not to live in." Yet the premises were cluttered with mementos of the family's better days: a letter to Beckwith's grandmother from Jeff Davis: pieces of china from Beauvoir, the Davis mansion near Biloxi.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,875008,00.html (669 words)

	Medgar Evers
		Byron De La Beckwith, a member of the Ku Klux Klan, was tried for the murder on two
		De La Beckwith openly mocked the law enforcement for not being able to convict him for over 25 years.
		De La Beckwith was 73 years of age when he was sentenced to life in prison and 42 years of age when he murdered Evers.
	library.thinkquest.org /J0112391/medgar_evars.htm (813 words)

	CNN - Excerpt: 'Watch Me Fly' -- February 15, 1999
		This was the third and final time the state of Mississippi tried to prove what everyone suspected: On June 12,1963, Byron De La Beckwith VI, hiding in the bushes of a vacant lot across the street from our house, pulled a trigger and drained the life out of Medgar.
		I glanced over at Beckwith, who sat with his attorneys at the defense table, on the opposite side of the courtroom.
		Though I have waged many battles in my life, bringing Byron De La Beckwith to justice was surely a defining achievement, one I couldn't have attained without the love and support of my children, my dear Walter, and the few family members and friends who stood by me, despite their own misgivings about my single-mindedness.
	www.cnn.com /books/beginnings/9902/watch.me/index.html (2979 words)

	Amazon.com: Never Too Late : A Prosecutor's Story of Justice in the Medgar Evars Case: Books: Bobby DeLaughter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		So much of what was needed to prepare the case against Byron De La Beckwith was lost during the long period between the killing and the final trial.
		De Laughter is widely descibed as very private, but in his writing he and his experience are so accessible the reader feels as if s/he is there every step of the way.
		Beckwith was tried twice for the crime; each time the jury was hung.
	www.amazon.com /Never-Too-Late-Prosecutors-Justice/dp/0684865033 (1896 words)

	Ghosts Of Mississippi
		Once prosecuting attorney Bobby DeLaughter reopened the murder case of Medgar Evers, a huge break came through for the prosecution when the murder weapon that Byron de la Beckwith used was found.
		On a visit to Jackson during the 1994 trial of Byron de la Beckwith, Zollo attempted to attend the trial verdict but could not due to its overflow crowds.
		James Woods aggressively lobbied director Rob Reiner for the role of Byron de la Beckwith, which Reiner originally meant for a much older actor, like Paul Newman.
	www.tnt.tv /title/?oid=300446-1159 (805 words)

	Byron De La Beckwith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Byron De La Beckwith has finished his Tour of Duty.
		Beckwith was buried at Memorial Park Cemetery in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on Saturday, January 27, 2001.
		Byron De La Beckwith was a true champion and the very definition of a true Southern Gentleman.
	www.liesexposed.net /nfp/issue0103/byron.htm (75 words)

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