#1 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 11/18/2021 #9

In 1999, a jury in Jasper, TX, convicted Shawn Allen Berry of murder for his role in the dragging death of James Byrd Jr, but spared him the death penalty. #JamesByrd

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#2 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 04/24/2022 #16

In 2019, avowed racist John William King was executed in Texas for the 1998 slaying of James Byrd Jr., who was chained to the back of a truck and dragged along a road outside Jasper, TX; prosecutors said Byrd was targeted because he was black. #JamesByrd

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#3 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 06/07/2022 #11

In 1998, in a crime that shocked the nation, James Byrd Jr, a 49-year-old black man, was hooked by a chain to a pickup truck and dragged to his death in Jasper, TX. Two white men were later sentenced to death; one of them, Lawrence Russell Brewer, was executed in 2011 and the other, John William King, was executed in April, 2019. A third defendant received life with the possibility of parole.) #JamesByrd

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#4 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 05/02/2026 #6

In 1949, James Byrd Jr was born in Beaumont, TX. #JamesByrd

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#5 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 06/07/2026 #12

In 1998, James Byrd Jr, age 49, accepted a ride from Shawn Berry, Lawrence Brewer, and John King. Berry, who was driving, was acquainted with Byrd from around town. Instead of taking Byrd home, the three men took Byrd to a remote county road out of town, beat him severely, and chained him by his ankles to their pickup truck before dragging him to death. #JamesByrd

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