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writing a song pleading for clemency, Ledbetter was pardoned by Governor Pat Morris Neff in 1925. In 1930, he was arrested, convicted of attempted murder, and sentenced to the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as the Angola Penitentiary, where he was "discovered" in a 1933 visit by folklorists John Lomax and his teenaged son, Alan Lomax.

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