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14: James Byrd Jr. – The Dragging Death That Shocked the Nation


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This is one of the most brutal cases we have covered!!! Do we have your attention now? On June 7, 1998, James Byrd, Jr. was walking home and spotted by a truck full of white supremacists in Jasper County, Texas. What followed was fueled entirely by racial hatred and involved some of the most unspeakable and gruesome details you've ever heard.


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