Byron de la Beckwith was born on 9 November 1920 in Colusa, California, USA. He was married to Mary Louise Williams and Thelma Lindsay Neff. He died on 21 January 2001 in Jackson, Mississippi, USA.
White supremacist and Klansman convicted in the 1963 assassination of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. Byron de la Beckwith was tried three times for the murder, but was finally convicted by a jury of eight African-Americans and four whites on February 5, 1994.
When I go to Hades, I'm going to raise hell all over Hades till I get to the white section. For the next 15 years, we here in Mississippi are going to have to do a lot of shooting to protect our wives and children from a lot a bad niggers.