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Article: A Fatal Ride in the Night.(James Byrd Jr. dragged to death in Jasper, Texas)(Brief Article)
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- Newsweek
- Article date:
- June 22, 1998
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A Texas man is dragged to death behind a pickup JAMES BYRD JR.'S TORSO WAS FOUND first. When police in Jasper, Texas. went out to Huff Creek Road last Sunday morning to check out reports of a dead body, they turned up the badly mutilated remains of the 49-year-old black man- and a trail of blood. Deputies followed the dark red stains for a mile and found Byrd's head. Then his right arm. Another mile, and they found tennis shoes, a wallet, even his dentures. And then the trail ended, at a churned-up patch of grass strewn with empty beer bottles, a lighter bearing white supremacist symbols and a wrench set inscribed with the name "Berry." Later that day, a witness told police ...
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... ... anniversary of the tragic dragging death of James Byrd Jr. by premiering the original movie ... of a 49-year-old Black man named James Byrd Jr. A community was shattered and struggled ... catches a ride with three young White men. James Byrd had no reason to question their hospitality ...
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