Biography
Dean Edwards was detained on November 13, 1976.
Corporal Dean Edwards, of Colfax, Louisiana, was one of the Camp Pendleton 14, Black Marines arrested after confronting what they believed was a Ku Klux Klan meeting on November 13, 1976. Contemporary Associated Press coverage identifies Edwards as the second defendant brought to a special court-martial and places his prosecution within the case against all fourteen Marines.
The report identifies Corporal Dean Edwards, twenty, of Colfax, Louisiana, as the second Camp Pendleton defendant, with a special court-martial scheduled for Thursday before an all-officer board and Lt. Col. F. Latimer Gould. This is a planned trial, not an accomplished verdict or sentence. The common fourteen-defendant context does not justify assigning Henry’s plea or later Fletcher outcome to Edwards.
