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* ce ee rae a ernst maar a “The Federa, uatute undet ” whieh fecxwitn 1s -dotszd carries relatively minor pital ties. The charge permitted FBI agents to make an arrest and pives them a legst hold over the prisoner pending fil- ing of charges under state kw. Noeover said Deekwith vinid be turned over to Jeckron aw thoritics a3 soon Ss posit for qucstioning and filing of ot~‘o murce? charges. 4? Leoekwith was bom anil reared in Greenwood and {3 a member of an old and prom inent Deita family. Re was formerly a salesman for iz New Deal Tobacco Co. in Greenuros. Greenwood citizens de. scribed Ne La Seckwith—who .- was luweva as ‘Delay’—as ‘‘ec- centri.” and outspoxen in his oppo: ston to any form of de segresation. He ‘vai written manv letters to Je.auia newspaners and to The Commercial Appeal ¢e nosraing Chief Justice Eart Warren and the Supreme Cazst, the National Asscca- tio. for the Advencement of Colored Pecple and the Ken- nedy Administration. vs The FBI said he wos a mun ber of the Mississipp! Citiz:ns' Council, a scgregatcnl% group. — a 1 Evers, 37, wos tho Hilccis- sippl field secretary {5,° thu NAACP. ad He was shot in the back Uy a sniper as he stepped fica his car in the driveway of tis home in Jackson shortly aitcr: midnight. ° A rifle was found in a honey- suckle thicket in a vacant lot across the street from Evers’ home. Hoover saul Beckwith was found by connecting hin with the “Galden Hawk" telescopic sight on the mfle recovered’ at the murder scene. He said FBI fingerprint experts sub- sequently identified a scint ov ee as Beckwith’s. fhe } AP camplaint aguisst Revsast wee tiled s«turday afternuta, Huover said. He said 2% information ¢e- Veluped Ss tha FBI invectiga- tion wouid be turned over te Jackson authorities and tho full facilities of tne FBI Iab- ‘oratory and iccntification ¢f- ‘vision, including testimony o! lab and fiagerprint experts” end FBI egeats, would be Imade availstis to thera. A Gretnwood acquaintance said Dsckwith, an ex-Marine, had served as a sniper, Ha also said Beckwith waz a gua collector. The FBI said Metine rec- ords showed Ceckwith was in, combat in the Guadalcanal and | Tarawa baitles of Worid War. I. Docksith and 8's wife. alsu 2 Marine Corps vitsran, are separated, Tucy Lave a teem aged 2: Ho ots property Lb. Groen- wood, including a Gawaisws cfty Biss maeniionad 25 a prob- auls cita for a new pan effice building. y ae htt a res