FBI looking into new claims in Evers killing - Convicted assassin's son cites conspiracy

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http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20110125/NEWS/101250337/FBI+looking+into+new+claims+in+Evers+killing

Jerry Mitchell • [e-mail] • January 25, 2011

The FBI said Monday it is examining claims by Byron De La Beckwith Jr. of a conspiracy to kill Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers nearly half a century ago.

"We're pursuing every avenue that comes up" in connection with killings from the civil rights era, said Tye Breedlove, spokesman for the FBI in Jackson. "We're looking under every stone."

After hearing of this, Beckwith said, "I imagine I might need to get ready for a visit. It won't be the first time they visited me, and it won't be the last."

In 2006, Justice Department officials announced an initiative to look into killings from the civil rights era in which suspects had gone unpunished. Since then, the FBI has examined more than 100 killings, some of which remain under investigation.

[LuvNewcastle]

1. This man cannot be trusted to tell

the truth. His father was nothing but a cowardly piece of trash and he lied with every breath he took. Sure, there might have been others involved in the crime, but anything said by Beckwith Sr. or Jr. is worthless and cannot in any way be construed as evidence. The feds gathered all the evidence they could and made their case. We'll probably never know everything that happened that night, but we can be satisfied that the central person involved in this crime was convicted and died in prison.