NATION IN BRIEF : TENNESSEE : Evers Case Witness Reluctant to Testify
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A key witness against a white supremacist re-arrested in the 1963 slaying of NAACP leader Medgar Evers said he is scared and does not want to testify. Delar Dennis, an FBI informant while in the Ku Klux Klan from 1964 to 1967, notified Hinds County, Miss., prosecutors that he feared for himself and his family if he testified against Byron De La Beckwith. Beckwith, 70, of Signal Mountain, Tenn., is jailed in Chattanooga, Tenn., and fighting extradition to Mississippi to stand trial a third time in Evers’ slaying.
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