The Ghosts of Mississippi (49 page)

The lawyer has allowed some of his correspondence from Beckwith to be made public. In these letters Beckwith says he was searching for an out-of state, big-name lawyer to take up his case. He complained bitterly about Coxwell and Kitchens, “known liberals” whom he said were “sitting on their asses” while he rotted in jail. “Harry, they think I will live forever and hell yes . . . I will,” he wrote. “Byron De La Beckwith Ain’t Done Yet.”