Nation IN BRIEF : MISSISSIPPI : Jury Told Beckwith Boasted of Slaying
The prosecution rested in the Jackson, Miss., murder trial of Byron De La Beckwith after producing a surprise witness who said he heard the white supremacist claim responsibility for killing civil rights leader Medgar Evers in 1963. Mark Reiley, a communications company manager, said he was working as a guard in the prison ward of a Louisiana hospital in 1979 when he said he heard Beckwith--then serving time for an attempted bombing--scream at a black nurse that if he could get rid of someone like Evers, he would have no problem getting rid of her.
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