In Memoriam: Sen. Robert C. Byrd (1917-2010)
Abourezk, James G., Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
I first met Senator Byrd shortly after I was sworn in for my first term as a U.S. senator from South Dakota. It was January 1973.
I knew Senator Byrd was from Beckley, West Virginia, because that is where my older sister, Helen Ramey, lived. When I was in elementary school in South Dakota, I started going to Beckley in the summers to stay with her. It was a way for my parents to get me out of their hair for a month or two.
I also knew that, when he was younger, Sen. Byrd had worked as a butcher in my cousin, Fred Mickel's, small grocery store in Beckley. I had also heard that Senator Byrd was a member of the Ku Klux Klan when he was younger. He was first elected to the …
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Article title: In Memoriam: Sen. Robert C. Byrd (1917-2010).
Contributors: Abourezk, James G. - Author.
Magazine title: Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.
Volume: 29.
Issue: 7
Publication date: September/October 2010.
Page number: 75+.
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