James Alex Fields Jr. sentenced: Man gets life plus 419 years in deadly Charlottesville car attack

--  An avowed white supremacist was sentenced to life plus 419 years on federal hate crime charges Monday for deliberately driving his car into anti-racism protesters during a white nationalist rally in Virginia.James Alex Fields Jr., 22, received the sentence for killing one person and injuring dozens during the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville on Aug. 12, 2017.Fields was sentenced last month to life in prison on 29 federal hate crime charges. Under state law, he was allowed to go lower than the recommendation, but not higher.The state sentence is mainly symbolic given his previous sentence on the federal charges."For his purposes, he has one life to give, so this is a largely academic exercise," noted Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University.Fields, an avowed white supremacist who kept a photo of Adolf Hitler on his bedside table, drove from his home in Maumee, Ohio, to attend the rally, which drew hundreds of white nationalists to Charlottesville to protest the planned removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Later that day, Fields plowed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing Heather Heyer, 32, and injuring more than two dozen others.The event stirred racial tensions around the country. Authorities said the 27-year-old man held Monday was one of 10 people interviewed over the weekend for the investigation of Suzanne Eaton's slaying 50 years ago, millions of people were glued to their television sets as Apollo 11​ launched to the moon James Alex Fields Jr., 22, received the sentence for killing one person and injuring dozens during the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville on Aug. 12, 2017 50 years ago, millions of people were glued to their television sets as Apollo 11​ launched to the moon It’s been 50 years since the world watched America put the first man on the moon.