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Medgar Evers — Part 3
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Beckwith
From Page 1A
Second trial,
The 1956 Legislature created the
commission to Preserve and pro-
Mote segregation,
the 1960s, it Spied
In its heyday of
On and harassed
Civil rights workers,
Hinds County (Jackson) District
Attorney Ed Peters said the jury-
tampering question may make it
Possible to try Beckwith again.
The new indictment could im-
Prove race relations in Mississippi
and help the State
’s national image,
educators and black leaders Said.
“It can be 800d, and it can be
be brought to trial,” said Aaron
Henry, president of the Mississippi
chapter of the NAACP, |
“I think it could have Positive
effects Nationally,”
’ said John Mars-
zalek, a history professor at Missis-
Sippi State University.
“That was a heinous crime. | just -
can’t believe that, in 1990, there: -
would be anyone who would defend
anything like that
Evers’ 57-year
happening.”
-old widow Myr-
lie, now a city commissioner in Los
- Angeles, said the Slaying is “an in-
ner part of me that still hurts, that
Still bleeds, that is
Following the
still very raw,”
murder, she and:
her three. Children flew Severa]
times to New York for Psychiatric
treatment.
She said the
Pain proved too
much to stay on in Mississippi. “We
ouldn’t stay in that house because
of the memories
hard?
there,” she Said,
white.
.f
“There are only three kinds of
People that live in Mississippi,” he
The U.S. income tax is a
“Jewish
. anti-Christian, commu-
nist” tax.
@ “Labor unions are about as
popular
churche
as niggers in white
Ss.”
® “AIDS is as contagious as the
common cold, Anyone who tells
you different is lying. I don't care
what Jewish university they came
from,”
B “Fifty Percent of the Roman
Catholic bishops and Priests are
Hell, everybody knows
His health deteriorating, he said
he’s more concerned about his cir-
culatory System than a Possible ~~ :
murder
indictment,
Beckwith was released Friday
from th
Medical
e Veterans Administration
in his carotid artery.
“T don't feel g00d. I don’t hear
good. I
Said, “]’
Tight ey:
eye.”
don't see »” Beckwith
mM getting a cataract in my
© — and that’s my shooting
Beckwith is not at a loss when
, asked to explain why the 27-year-
old case has
been revived.
“The niggers have Tun out of
Something to do," he Said, ,
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a
Doe Wt
: tupt
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