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NATION, Page 35American NotesMISSISSIPPISecond Look At Murder
Civil rights advocates had given up hope that anyone would ever
be punished for the murder of N.A.A.C.P. field secretary Medgar
Evers, who was gunned down in Jackson, Miss., in 1963. Indicted in
the killing was Byron de la Beckwith, a segregationist whose
fingerprints were found on the murder weapon. But all-white juries
twice failed to reach a verdict, and Beckwith went free.
Recent reports by Jackson's Clarion-Ledger show that the
Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, a now defunct agency created
by the state to battle desegregation, may have interfered in the
jury selection for Beckwith's second trial. The newspaper found
evidence that commission members relayed information about
prospective jurors to Beckwith's lawyer. Assistant District
Attorney Bobby DeLaughter is pushing for a new indictment, but that
will not be easy. Many witnesses have died, and the murder weapon
is missing.