Byron de la Beckwith Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Byron de la Beckwith was born on November 9, 1920 in Colusa, California, USA. He was married to Thelma Lindsay Neff and Mary Louise Williams. He died on January 21, 2001 in Jackson, Mississippi, USA.
[on the murder of Medgar Evers] Killing that nigger gave me no more inner discomfort than our wives endure when they gave birth to our children.
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Fact
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Byron de la Beckwith was the subject of the 1963 Bob Dylan song "Only a Pawn in Their Game", which deplores the murder of Medgar Evers and the racial environment of the South.
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In January 1942, Byron de la Beckwith enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and served as a machine gunner in the Pacific theater of World War II. He fought at the Battle of Guadalcanal and was shot in the waist during the Battle of Tarawa. He was honorably discharge in August 1945.
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Sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Medgar Evers, Byron de la Beckwith died at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in 2001 in Jackson, Mississippi, having been transported there from Central Mississippi Correctional Center, aged 80. He had suffered from heart disease, high blood pressure and other ailments.
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Ku Klux Klansman convicted in the 1963 assassination of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. Byron de la Beckwith was tried three times for the murder, but was finally convicted in 1994.
$6 Million