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| | Guardian Unlimited | Obituaries | Byron White |
 | | Byron White, who has died of complications following a bout of pneumonia, aged 84, would prefer to be remembered as a long-serving justice on America's supreme court, rather than as an all-American gridiron star who went on to wider success. |
 | | And, perhaps because of his experience with and dislike of fame, White never courted the spotlight, as is the wont of many current justices, and refused to play to the media gallery. |
 | | White personally organised the federal marshals who protected civil rights workers in the South, a responsibility J Edgar Hoover's FBI had declined to accept. |
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