HENRY "DICKIE" MARROW

ACTUAL RECORDS

 State the last place he was at was CorrHoldingDet (SFW21BVU) FtLeavenworthKS.

He was confined at Leavenworth. He received a dishonorable discharge. He never served in Vietnam.
Jan 18, 2011
 
 
Little-Known Black History Fact: The Murder of Henry Marrow

 
Date: Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 5:08 am
By: Erica Taylor, The Tom Joyner Morning Show

In Oxford, North Carolina in 1970, a Vietnam veteran by the name of Henry Marrow, also known as Dickie, was murdered in a hate crime by Roger Oakley, Robert Teel and Larry Teel........
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/movies/14blood.html?_r=1

Many minds changed in the next few years, he noted, but even by 1970 much had not changed. In Oxford the movie theaters were still segregated. Downtown businesses sold to African-Americans but would hire them only as janitors. Public pools and recreation areas had been closed to keep them out. Thus, in May of that year, when a young black Vietnam veteran named Henry Marrow was beaten and killed on an Oxford street by three white men, an incident watched by several witnesses, the town was ready for an explosion. As the movie shows, the trial of two of the men was of intense concern to 22-year-old Ben Chavis (played by Nate Parker), a black Oxford native who had recently returned to teach high school after having become a civil rights organizer while in college in Charlotte, N.C.

 
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1210039/#comment

"Blood" has several striking white characters. The good side includes Tim's loyal and Christian parents,and the community that turn their back on him and his family,while the other side deals with the coming of the black community and the outrage that followed within the town. It also show how a divided African American community in segregated Oxford,North Carolina in 1970 pulled together after the senseless and public killing of Henry Marrow(a young man who came home from the Vietnam War was now a veteran who is shot and killed for no apparent reason from Robert Teel and his sons)and changed their own history forever. Some organized boycotts,other threw firebombs while others looted and pillaged the town including scenes of where others torched and burned down the tobacco warehouses throughout the town. One local high school teacher,Ben Chavis(Nate Parker of The Great Debaters),who was also a local businessman and future civil rights activist stood against the injustices in Oxford and did what he thought was right. The cast varies in quality from actors ranging from Lela Rochon to Michael Rooker,and A.C. Sanford not to mention cameo appearances from not only Tim Tyson and his father Vernon Tyson but also from the late historian John Hope Franklin.
 
In this video clip Mike Wiley states Henry is a Vietnam war Veteran. You can hear it about 2:36 minutes into the video. 
 
 
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/7078320/

"Blood Done Signed My Name" captures a powerful moment of the civil rights movement in North Carolina, galvanized by the murder of Henry Murrow. The 23-year-old Vietnam War veteran was shot and beaten to death. When a jury acquitted a prominent white businessman and his grown sons of Murrow's death, violence followed.
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/110772/
Marrow -- a veteran who had served in Vietnam -- walked into a store owned by Teel to buy a drink. Teel reportedly had a criminal record and connections to the Ku Klux Klan.
http://www.insightnews.com/aesthetics/6334-riveting-real-life-civil-rights-era-drama-released-on-dvd

After serving his country in Vietnam, Henry Marrow (A.C. Sanford) returned to his hometown of Oxford, North Carolina only to be murdered in broad daylight for allegedly leering at a white woman