Suspect in Medgar Evers Murder Is Freed on Bail
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<i> Associated Press</i>
JACKSON, Miss. — A man who faces his third trial in the 1963 slaying of civil rights leader Medgar Evers was freed Wednesday on bail. Byron De La Beckwith was released hours after Judge L. Breland Hilburn Jr. of Hinds County Circuit Court set $100,000 bail and ordered the Tennessee man to stay in Mississippi until his trial.
A benefactor who did not want to be identified provided the cash needed for Beckwith to be freed, his attorney said.
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