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2. Murder of James Byrd Jr. - Wikipedia

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   Murder of James Byrd Jr. James Byrd Jr. (May 2, 1949 – June 7, 1998) was an African American man who was murdered by three white men, two of whom were avowed white supremacists, in Jasper, Texas, on June 7, 1998. Shawn Berry, Lawrence Brewer, and John King dragged him for three miles (five kilometers) behind a Ford pickup truck along an ...

3. Dutch Schultz - Wikipedia

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   U.S. Attorney Thomas Dewey. Allegiance. New York City's Five Families. Dutch Schultz (born Arthur Simon Flegenheimer; August 6, 1901 – October 24, 1935) was an American mobster based in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s. Schultz made his fortune in organized crime -related activities, including bootlegging and the numbers racket.

4. Jasper, Texas (film) - Wikipedia

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   Jasper, Texas is a 2003 American made-for-television drama film directed by Jeffrey W. Byrd. The teleplay by Jonathan Estrin is based on a true story and focuses on the aftermath of a crime in which three white men from the small town of Jasper, Texas , killed African American James Byrd Jr. by dragging him behind their pickup truck.

5. Louis Gossett Jr. - Wikipedia

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   In 2003, Gossett co-lead with Jon Voight in Jeffrey W. Byrd's Jasper, Texas. The film is about Jasper's first black mayor R.C. Horn (Gossett) and sheriff Billy Rowles (Voight) handling the tensions between the white and black communities after the murder of James Byrd Jr. in 1998. Of the project Gossett said “what I saw in the story is a growth.

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8. William B. Bankhead - Wikipedia

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   William B. Bankhead. William Brockman Bankhead (April 12, 1874 – September 15, 1940) was an American politician who served as the 42nd speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1936 to 1940, representing Alabama's 10th and later 7th congressional districts as a Democrat from 1917 to 1940. Bankhead was a strong liberal and a ...

9. Ohio man, 81, fatally shoots Uber driver, 61, after scammers ...

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   Updated April 15, 2024 at 11:35 PM. An 81-year-old Ohio man has been charged in the fatal shooting of an Uber driver he believed was working with a scammer, according to officials who said the ...