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  • Jasper Trial

    Bill King, the white supremacist convicted of dragging James Byrd to his death, heads to death row today in Huntsville, Texas. King is the first white person condemned for killing an African-American in Texas since the 1970’s. King spent his first night as a condemned man in a diagnostic unit in the prison where he will await his execution.
    Feb 26, 1999 | Story

  • Jasper Trial

    Jurors in the murder trial of John William King, a white supremacist convicted of the capital murder of an African-American man, are considering today whether King will be sentenced to life in prison or the death penalty. James Byrd, 49, was dragged for three miles from the back of a pickup truck last year.
    Feb 25, 1999 | Story

  • Sentencing Phase of Jasper Trial Begins

    After a week of hearing gruesome testimony and examining grisly evidence, it took a Texas jury of 10 whites and one African-American less than three hours to find John William King, an admitted white supremacist, guilty of capital murder in the killing of an African-American man. James Byrd, 49, was dragged to death for over three miles while chained to the back of a pickup truck in Jasper, Texas. Jurors are now hearing evidence in the sentencing...
    Feb 24, 1999 | Story

  • Jasper Trial Goes to Jury

    It was one of the most shocking crimes in recent years—the brutal racist killing of African-American James Byrd. Today, that murder trial is headed for a jury in Jasper, Texas. Lawyers will present closing arguments in the capital murder trial of Bill King, a white supremacist who is one of three men accused of dragging Byrd to death last year.
    Feb 23, 1999 | Story

  • Jasper

    The murder trial of Bill King, a white supremacist accused of dragging an African American man to death, resumes today in Jasper, Texas. A pathologist is expected to detail how James Byrd was chained to a pickup truck and killed. His head and right arm were found separated from the rest of his body.
    Feb 22, 1999 | Story

  • Jasper Lynching Trial

    Today is the third day of the murder trial of white supremacist John William King, accused of dragging an African-American man to death behind a pickup truck. Yesterday, a former fellow inmate of King’s testified that King had vowed in prison that he would kidnap and kill a black man when he got free in order to attract attention to a white supremacist group that he was trying to form.
    Feb 19, 1999 | Story

  • A Look at Controversial Conservative Group's Republican Members</B>

    Next we turn to a story that Democracy Now! Has been following for a few months: the link between the Conservative Citizens Council, a white supremacist organization, and Republican Congressman Bob Barr from Georgia and Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott from Mississippi. Both politicians have spoken at CCC events and Lott’s involvement with the group dates back more than a decade. Although both have distanced themselves from the CCC and...
    Jan 15, 1999 | Story

  • Connections Between the Ccc and International Fascism</B>

    The Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC) is a white organization that regularly publishes anti-black, anti-Latino, anti-immigration, and anti-gay literature in its newsletters and on its web page and whose membership has ties to Neo-Nazi and other white supremacist groups. Democracy Now! has exposed the ongoing relationship between Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, House Judiciary Committee Member Bob Barr, and the CCC.
    Dec 23, 1998 | Story

  • Reflections On a New York Racist Parade Float</B>

    This past Labor Day, three white men in blackface reenacted the brutal murder of a Texas Black man. In a parody of the killing on a float called Black to the Future, a police officer jumped out of the pick-up truck and hung from the tailgate. Byrd was decapitated and his body was dragged from the back of a pick-up truck by three white men with ties to a white supremacist organization. The parade was held in Broad Channel, a white working class...
    Sep 24, 1998 | Story

  • Ku Klux Klan: Its Beginnings, 1865

    A special report produced by Pacifica’s Southern Regional correspondent,
    Alan Lipke: narration by Amy Goodman; commentary by author and activist
    Stetson Kennedy whose books The Klan Unmasked, The Jim Crow Guide, Southern Exposure, and now After Appomattox –the books challenge the many myths regarding the Klan’s beginnings and purpose.
    Feb 17, 1997 | Story