The song "Only a Pawn in Their Game" was based on a crime whose perpetrator was convicted in the year 1994.
"Only a Pawn in Their Game" is a song written by Bob Dylan about the assassination of civil rights activist Medgar Evers. 
Byron De La Beckwith, Sr. (November 9, 1920  January 21, 2001) was an American white supremacist and Klansman from Greenwood, Mississippi, who in 1994 was convicted of assassinating civil rights leader Medgar Wiley Evers on June 12, 1963. 
