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FBI NEW ORLS rey i an 922PMCS URGENT An14-64, 4TH a ae a | es _ To /DIRECTOR /137-901/ TEL ver oe se 7 va FROM NEW ORLEANS /157-1163/0 - Sete Ee BYRON DE LA BECKWITH, ‘AKA, MEDGAR- EVERS DASH VICTIM. CR. RM __-7 RE AFTERNOON SESSION BECKWITH TRIAL TODAY. Wa D im a MRS. A.W. BRANCH AND HER SON, CHARLES BRANCH, SIDON, MISS., lin TESTIFIED THAT ON NIGHT SUNDAY JUNE NINE LAST SAW INDIVIDUAL GETTING IN OR OUT OF BECKWITH/S VALIENT AUTOMOBILE WHILE IT WAS PARKED ON LOT AJACENT TO GREYHOUND BUS STATION, GREENWOOD, MISS. CHARLES BRANCH TESTIFIED TOLD BECKWITH, WHO WAS IN BUS STATION, AS8OUT THIS AND BECKWITH CAME OUTSIDE AND TALKED TO THIS INDIVIDUAL. SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS TESTIMONY NOT FULLY DEVELOPED, HOWEVER DURING LAST TRIAL THESE WITNESSES TESTIFIED THEY THOUGHT INDIVIDUAL ‘ MAY HAVE TAKEN SOMETHING FROM BECKWITH/S CAR /POSSIBLY BECKWITH/S ; \ RIFLE/. THIS WAS NOT BROUGHT OuT IN TODAYS TESTIMONY. | ; . Sw | FRED CONNER, GREENWOOD, MISS., ‘BUS STATION EMPLOYEE, TESTIFIED HE ATE SUPPER WITH BECKWITH AT GREENWOOD CAFE BETWEEN SIX “AND SEVEN P.M. JUNE ELEVEN LAST. REC 18 AS 7 9 o/ - UG? BECKWITH TOOK STAND DENIED SHOOTING EVERS. a BEING IN JACKSON SATURDAY PRECEEDING, MURDER. DENIED CONVERSATION WITH TWO CAB DRIVERS AT. TRAILWAYS BUS STATION THAT DAY. DENIES WAS IN JACKSON NIGHT JUNE ELEVEN, MORNING JUNE TWELVE. CLAIMS_WAS_IN SBEEMWOOD DURING THAT TIME. “<8 APR 1G 1964 COURT ADJOURNED UNTIL NINE A.M. TOMORROW WHEN. CROSS EXQMINATIO OF BECKWITH WILL CONTINUE. | END WANTC 7a apRr7l i964 2 4 f.7 Le FBI WASH DC