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bine tcpttieaat ls et BE Ba ih, aan ARES heh EB, : LS pat tT anal allan THE DILIGENT and thorough FBI © utes after it was learned that a Negro returning from an integration meet- ‘as he left his automobile home. It was _ tion ‘that the to enter his. ‘assumed by the entire ‘na- - Negro was killed by a son. Now an : A 42-year-old ‘|. Shite ‘man in Greenwood, Miss., who is a salesman is the man who was aI- rested. He is a member of the Citizens Medgar Evers. killed, became a martyr, his death fanning pitch. The murder became one of the in connection with the racial strife. -... ‘All Americans with a sense of jus-| tice were shocked by the murder and -hoped for early apprehension and pun- ishment of the guilty person. However divergent may be views concerning the racial matter, no true ous step that was taken gar Evans. _ : Shooting a man in the back under cover of darkness or under any other circumstances is not the way to racial > harmony. The Mississippi murder only brought.on more strife, engen- dered more hatred. ett against Med- TDs ae ne ace atte See ee a (Mount Clipping in Spoce Below) , ‘went to work in earnest within min-. - ing in Mississippi was shot in the back | white segregationist who had let his . the Negro who was | emotional flames to a new ; most ‘sinister of’ recent developments © American could condone the murder- : . ~—Fhe--white man arrested Saturday Fingerprints On A Rifle ~~ “night in connection with the murder,’ to taken be- | fore a U.S. Commissioner. He’ was . told he was not taken efore the Com- . guilty or to plead — Byron de la Beckwith, was missioner to. admit innocence. : _ A rifle was found near the home of he murdered Negro. From it the FBI tained fingerprints. The US. At- -ttorney General says -much more €vi-.--- dence has been gathered in connection 4with the case. . If the white man arrested is found to be the guilty person, then certainly he should be subjected to the full pen- alty provided by law. ‘Whoever killed Medgar Evers did not take the law in his own hands. The Negro had violated no law. He - had conducted himself had obviously stirred ire. So the man — in a way that ‘who did the killing was simply giving ‘vent in primitive fashion to aging Whatever may be the outcome of the current civil rights campaign, there will be a continuation of racial prej- udice. It exists in other countries and has existed through the ages. Laws }oannst erase it and laws cannot bring social acceptance. But we as the people making up @ nation that is leading the free world must be a people of law-abiding citi- zens, striving especially hard at this Icritical moment to move forward to- gether with the standing solidly against such incidents as the murder in Mississippi. least friction possible. (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) ___4 LAKELAND LEDGER __-LAKELAXD, FLA. pate June 24, 1963 Edition: Asthor: . a cauordiarris G. Sims Title: co , : Character: or Classification: * Submitting Office: Tampa