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082	0	4	_a364.152/3/092
084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aAinslie, Ricardo C. _eautore
245	1	0	_aLong Dark Road : _bBill King and Murder in Jasper, Texas / _cRicardo C. Ainslie.
264		1	_aAustin : _bUniversity of Texas Press, _c[2021]
264		4	_c©2004
300			_a1 online resource (254 p.)
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505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tPreface -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tThe Row -- _tHuff Creek Road -- _tThe Arrests -- _tThe Unraveling -- _tPlanet Beto -- _tAn Uneasy Return -- _tNot the 1920s -- _tPrison Kites -- _tThe Prosecution’s Case -- _tSandals and Tattoos -- _tThe Verdict -- _tBlood Ties
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aOn a long dark road in deep East Texas, James Byrd Jr. was dragged to his death behind a pickup truck one summer night in 1998. The brutal modern-day lynching stunned people across America and left everyone at a loss to explain how such a heinous crime could possibly happen in our more racially enlightened times. Many eventually found an answer in the fact that two of the three men convicted of the murder had ties to the white supremacist Confederate Knights of America. In the ex-convict ringleader, Bill King, whose body was covered in racist and satanic tattoos, people saw the ultimate monster, someone so inhuman that his crime could be easily explained as the act of a racist psychopath. Few, if any, asked or cared what long dark road of life experiences had turned Bill King into someone capable of committing such a crime. In this gripping account of the murder and its aftermath, Ricardo Ainslie builds an unprecedented psychological profile of Bill King that provides the fullest possible explanation of how a man who was not raised in a racist family, who had African American friends in childhood, could end up on death row for viciously killing a black man. Ainslie draws on exclusive in-prison interviews with King, as well as with Shawn Berry (another of the perpetrators), King's father, Jasper residents, and law enforcement and judicial officials, to lay bare the psychological and social forces—as well as mere chance—that converged in a murder on that June night. Ainslie delves into the whole of King's life to discover how his unstable family relationships and emotional vulnerability made him especially susceptible to the white supremacist ideology he adopted while in jail for lesser crimes. With its depth of insight, Long Dark Road not only answers the question of why such a racially motivated murder happened in our time, but it also offers a frightening, cautionary tale of the urgent need to intervene in troubled young lives and to reform our violent, racist-breeding prisons. As Ainslie chillingly concludes, far from being an inhuman monster whom we can simply dismiss, "Bill King may be more like the rest of us than we care to believe."
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022)
650		0	_aAfrican American men _xCrimes against _zTexas _zJasper.
650		0	_aHate crimes _zTexas _zJasper.
650		0	_aMurder _zTexas _zJasper.
650		0	_aMurderers _zTexas _zJasper _vBiography.
650		0	_aRacism _zTexas _zJasper.
650		7	_aHISTORY / General. _2bisacsh
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856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.7560/705746
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292797727
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