Byron De La Beckwith
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 24 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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| Date of Upd. | |
| 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.