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Jimmie Lee Jackson
May 10, 2007    File under: Alabama , Memory & Memorial , The South

There are new indictments in the 1965 murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson.

For the last year I've been talking about this very case. The title poem of my new book, A Murmuration of Starlings, is about the murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson.

I'm glad to see this case is not slipping into memory, or from memory, but I'm sure what ensues will be interesting in many, many ways. Says James Bernard Fowler, the former Alabama State Trooper who, it seems, has been indicted for Jackson's murder: "The DA is trying to get a pound of flesh for civil rights, and I guess he's getting it from me" (source).

Posted by Jake Adam York at May 10, 2007 11:00 AM



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