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0-390 (Rev. 5-8-81) BY LEE HOWARD Gannett News Service SIGNAL MOUNTAIN — Byron De La Beckwith doesn't look like a. man who again faces.charges in the.. 1963 sniper-style Ag Shooting death of i civil rights activ- so. ist Medgar Evers. ey The grandfa- | -. therly 70-year- ; old is quick with a disarming smile and a welcoming twinkle in his eye. But the image falls apart as soon as he opens his . “We need to re-establish a con- federate state of America as a white Christian republic. We don't need any dark-skinned, yellow-skinned | or blue-skinned mongrels running it," Beckwith says. Beckwith was arrested on a fu- (Maunt Cioorng «1 Soace Betow) beckwith faces third trial for 1963 slaying of Evers gitive warrant from Hinds County, Miss., on Monday and was being held in the Hamilton County, Tenn., jail Monday -night. Facing an ar- -taignment= Tuesday,” he says he would fight extradition to Missis- sippi “tooth, nail andclaw.” Evers, the Mississippi NAACP field secretary, was shot in the back in his driveway in Jackson, Miss., on June 12, 1963, with a 1917 model 30.06 Enfield rifle. Beckwith's fin- gerprint was found on the sight of the rifle, which was discarded near the scene. He was tried twice for murder in 1964, Two all-white juries were un- able to reach a verdict and mistrials were declared. The murder charge against Beckwith was dismissed in 1969, . The drive for a third trial began in October 1989 when the Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger reported (Indicate cage. rang of Ne@wSleoer, Cty ang stare.) Character. or Classitication: wwe Suamtting Office: KNOXVILLE DIVISION