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Photo, Print, Drawing James Bird [sic] murder trial / Pat Lopez.

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About this Item

Title

  • James Bird [sic] murder trial / Pat Lopez.

Summary

  • Drawing shows bald tattoo artist Johnny "Big Mo" Mosley testifiying during the trial of John William King about the racist imagery with which the defendant had covered his body. King was convicted of murder on Feb. 24, 1999 for the dragging death of African American James Byrd, Jr. on June 7, 1998.

Names

  • Lopez, Pat, 1954-, artist

Created / Published

  • 1999 Jan.

Headings

  • -  King, Bill,--1974---Trials, litigation, etc
  • -  Brewer, Lawrence Russell,--Trials, litigation, etc
  • -  Berry, Shawn Allen--Trials, litigation, etc
  • -  Byrd, James,--Jr.,--1949-1998
  • -  Judicial proceedings--Texas--Jasper--1990-2000
  • -  Courtrooms--Texas--Jasper--1990-2000
  • -  Homicides--Texas--Jasper--1990-2000
  • -  Racism--Texas--Jasper--1990-2000
  • -  Tattoos--1990-2000

Headings

  • Courtroom sketches--1990-2000.
  • Drawings--Color--1990-2000.

Genre

  • Courtroom sketches--1990-2000
  • Drawings--Color--1990-2000

Notes

  • -  Caption label from exhibit Drawing Justice: Racist Tatoos Cover James Byrd, Jr.'s, Murderer. During the trial of John William King, tattoo artist Johnny Mosley testified about the racist imagery with which King had covered his body while in prison on burglary charges. King had also joined the Confederate Knights of America, a Klan-based group. Out of prison, he recruited Shawn Allen Berry and Lawrence Russell Brewer to what he hoped would be the Jasper, Texas, chapter of the group. The victim, James Byrd, Jr., had been hitchhiking home from a party on June 7, 1998, when Berry, Brewer, and King kidnapped him. After beating him, they chained him to the back of their truck and dragged him to his death. Selecting its only African American juror to serve as foreman, the jury returned a guilty verdict of capital murder.
  • -  Title from item.
  • -  Signed on bottom center.
  • -  Gift/Purchase; Pat Lopez; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:178).
  • -  Exhibited: "Drawing Justice" at the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C., April - October 2017.
  • -  C4, F5

Medium

  • 1 drawing : colored pencil and graphite ; sheet 42.4 x 50.6 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2014:178, no. 272 [P&P]

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Digital Id

  • ppmsca 51121 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.51121

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2017645104

Reproduction Number

  • LC-DIG-ppmsca-51121 (digital file from original drawing)

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  • Call Number: Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2014:178, no. 272 [P&P]
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Lopez, Pat, Artist. James Bird sic murder trial / Pat Lopez. Jasper Texas, 1999. Jan. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017645104/.

APA citation style:

Lopez, P. (1999) James Bird sic murder trial / Pat Lopez. Jasper Texas, 1999. Jan. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2017645104/.

MLA citation style:

Lopez, Pat, Artist. James Bird sic murder trial / Pat Lopez. Jan. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2017645104/>.