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Bob Dylan - Only a Pawn in Their Game from 1963 Newport Folk Festival

Dylan wrote this song after Civil Rights leader Medgar Evers was killed on June 12, 1963 by KKK member by Byron De La Beckwith. De La Beckwith was arrested 11 days later, but would not be convicted until February 5, 1994.

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