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Medgar Evers — Part 2

60 pages · May 10, 2026 · Document date: Feb 13, 1964 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Medgar Evers · 57 pages OCR'd
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med ” FBI WASH DC ' = qe16 PM “URGENT 4-13-64 TM 7 oe ; ‘To DIRECTOR /157-901/ Lae FROM. NEW ORLEANS . AASTHNNES/ ee pa ma at bi ” whee BYRON DE LA BECKWITH, ‘BKA MEDGAR EVERS DASA VICTIM. GRRE oN RE AFTERNOON SESSION OF BECKWITH TRIAL TODAY. an a J BARBARA ANN HOLDER TESTIFIED SHE WAS AT JOE/S DRIVE-IN, viciNETY-—- EVERS HOME, NIGHT OF JUNE ELEVEN SIXTYTHREE. SOMETIME IN EARLY PART OF NIGHT JHE SAW AUTOMOBILE PULL UP ON LOT OF DRIVE*IN AND PARK WITH DRIVER STAYING IN CAR. SHE LEFT AND RETURNED APPROXINATELY« | ELEVEN THIRTY P.Me, SAW SAME CAR ON LOT AT THIS TIME IDENTIFIED : PHOTOGRAPH oF BECKWITH/S NINETEEN SIXTYTWO VALIENT AS IDENTICAL WITH CAR SHE RAW ON LOT. FURNISHED SKETCHY DESCRIPTION OF MAN IN THIS CAR, SAID syEsoulg NOT POSITIVELY IDENTIFY THIS MAN BUT HAD OPINION AS TO LOENTITY: OF THIS PERSON. WAS NOT ALLOWED TO TESTIFY AS TO ey tarlew ow HER OPINION, = —_ I |" SASAN H. ALLEN, JRe, MEMPHIS DIVISION; “TESTIFIER AS TO INITIAL | CONTACT WITH BECKWITH AT GREENWOOD, JUNE TVENTYONE LAST AND THAT. ; | BECKWITH ANSWERED ONLY @BOTE No COMMENT WNQUEFE TO AGENTS auestions 9 " RE TELESCOPE SIGHT PURCHASED FROM DUCK/S TACKLE SHOP. yr SA THOMAS F,. HOPKINS. MENPHIS DIVISION, TESTIFIED AS ry 18 grrgurts Hf iL LOCATE BECKWITH JUNE TWENTYTWO LAST AND gins tad CES tTH/S | ARREST THAT NIGHT IN “yIs ‘at FoRNeYs oFFItE, « | 18 ABR 16 1968 SA JOSEPH PEGGS New ORLEANS DIVISION; TESTEFIED-AS TO INTERVIEW = Police Department ' WITH BECKWITH AT JACKSON PE JUNE TWENTYTHREE AND OBSERVATION END PAGE~ON MR. BELMONT FER THE DI MR. BELMONT FER THE DIRECTOR | a. APR 21495
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