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Byron De La Beckwith fancied himself a real Southern gentleman. He dressed with casual care, always bowed deeply from the waist when passing friends, punctuated his drawl with soft... ... Byron De La Beckwith fancied himself a real Southern gentleman. He dressed with casual care, always bowed deeply from the waist...
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Byron De La Beckwith, whose 1994 conviction in the murder of a civil rights leader three decades earlier symbolized a transformation in Mississippi, died on Sunday night in Jackson, Miss. He was 80. ... Born in Colusa, Calif., Byron De La Beckwith moved with his widowed mother to Greenwood when he was 5. When his mother...
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It was amid the fragrance of some honeysuckle vines around midnight on June 11, 1963, that Byron De La Beckwith, the descendant of an old slaveholding family, hid in a black neighborhood of Jackson and fired a bullet into the back of Medgar Evers, the state's outstanding civil rights advocate.
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Byron de la Beckwith, Dead,Funny Hilarious interviews with the recently deceased. ... Today we would like to welcome to The Death Pool Byron de la Beckwith. All right now out there we can here you yelling at us already but believe me you have to try and discover how these idiots are formed so that you can squash them earlier...
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Collection of all USATODAY.com coverage of Byron De La Beckwith., including articles, videos, photos, and quotes. ... ...autopsy, later testifying that Evers had been killed by a high-powered weapon such as a rifle. In 1994, a jury convicted Byron De La Beckwith of Evers' murder, concluding Beckwith shot Evers in the back...
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on Byron De La Beckwith (American assassin), American white supremacist (b. Nov. 9, 1920, Colusa, Calif.—d. Jan. 21, 2001, Jackson, Miss.), was the convicted murderer of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. ... Learn more about "Byron De La Beckwith"
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The gun, with a telescopic sight, had been dropped by the assassin as he fled from his hiding place in a clump of honeysuckle. A fingerprint found on the sight was soon traced to Byron De La Beckwith.
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The accused killer, a white supremacist named Byron De La Beckwith, stood trial twice in the 1960s, but in both cases the all-white juries could not reach a verdict. Finally, in a third trial in 1994 (and thirty-one years after Evers’ murder), Beckwith was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
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