Byron De La Beckwith
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 23 years ago |
Date of birth | November 9,1920 |
Zodiac sign | Scorpio |
Born | Colusa |
California | |
United States | |
Date of died | January 21,2001 |
Died | University Of Mississippi Medical Center Emergency Room |
Jackson | |
Mississippi | |
United States | |
Spouse | Thelma Lindsay Neff |
Children | Delay De La Beckwith |
Parents | Byron De La Beckwith, Sr. |
Susan Southworth Yerger | |
Job | Salesperson |
Known for | The assassination of civil rights leader Medgar Evers |
Convict | Murder |
Crimin penalti | Life imprisonment |
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ID | 475951 |
Byron De La Beckwith Life story
Byron De La Beckwith Jr. was an American murderer, white supremacist and a member of the Ku Klux Klan from Greenwood, Mississippi who murdered the civil rights leader Medgar Evers on June 12, 1963. Two trials in 1964 on that charge, with all-white Mississippi juries, resulted in hung juries.