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a etait See a ~*~ - & © “s —_ = * bad £ = -~ s EEE SAE AEE: AD eta. tes 1 BOIS BF -350 (4-3-62) Nw ae Ee oe nee | - --{Mount Clipping in Space Below) WIFE PRAISE FBI (The Times-Picayune cayane Capital Bureau) JACKSON, Miss.-The wife and brother of slain Negro leader Medgar Evers here have ex- pressed their praise of the work done by the Federal Bureau of; Investigation in the arrest of | Greenwood white man for the Evers murder. | , “I appreciate the work the FBI has done,” Mrs. Evers said at} her modest home here where her; husband was slain by a snipers’ bullet June 12. “I’m too emotional about this still, but in due time I will have! more to say.” Meantime, Charles Evers, brother of the dead Negro leader,: who has replaced him as state ficld secretary of the NAACP, declared: ‘I am gratified that the information supplied by the FBI has resulted in the arrest of a prime suspect in the killing of\ my brother, Medgar.” ~~ Byron De La Beckwith was ar- rested late Saturday night after the FBI had traced a telescopic gunsight used in the slaying and a fingerprint to him. The intensive investigation by! the FBI required the elimination of 15,000 telescopic sights in the country to establish the probable owner of the sight found on the suspected murder weapon. It also required identifying the correct fingerprint from among 168 mil- lion sets of prints in the national’ FBI files. ~ A singie thumb print was taken’ from the .30-06 Enfield rifle which was_found bout 300 mae the murder scene, — oan AO Mr. Tolso: Mr. Belmont: Mr. Mohr... Mr. Casper. Mr. Callahan_— Mr. Go “pd Mr Dating Mr. Evans: Mr. eS Mr. Rasen & Mr. "SvWfiivan__ Mr. Tavel Mr. Trotter. Tele. Room — Miss Holmes. Miss Gandy. (indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) PAGE SEC 2 THE TIMES PICAYUNE NEW ORLEANS LA. pee: JUNE'25, 1963 Edition: Author: Editor: title: BYRON DE LA BECKWITH: MEDGAR EVERS: VICTIM Character: <= RM Classification: 1 Submitting on BNET ORLEAR ENCECSURE - / ° S7-G6l—+ on) Site 4 JUL ® 1963