In the summer of 63 there was yet another racial murder. Black activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back as he got out of his car in his home town of Decatur, Mississippi. The good ol boys knew the perpetrator and eventually local Klansman Byron le Beckworth was arrested and tried. Disgustingly the all white jury twice acquitted him and Medgar’s family had to wait another 30 years for justice to be done. Both Phil Ochs and Dylan were moved to write a song about his murder, with Bob’s being titled “Only a pawn in their game.” But only a pawn in whose game?
Meanwhile Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested after getting into a fight with an anti Castro Cuban exile. He was giving out leaflets for the New Orleans branch of the “Fair Play for Cuba Committee” a pro Castro organisation, at the time. The two protagonists went on TV to explain their animosity and Oswald admitted he had Marxist leanings and was a fan of Fidel. He also went on a local radio show to explain his political beliefs. Many people now believe that fight was staged, especially when you discover that Oswald was the only member of the New Orleans branch of the Committee and the address on the leaflets was the office block of ex FBI man and anti communist Guy Bannister. Was Oswald also being used as a pawn in a game?
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