This time there were tears. Jimmie Lee Jackson was only 26 years old, a church deacon, shot and killed by a state trooper in the aftermath of a voting rights protest just up the road in nearby Marion.
Jimmie Lee Jackson was murdered in February 1965 by state trooper James Fowler. The murder was the impetus for the Selma-Montgomery March. Jackson's gravestone is pockmarked with bullet holes.
Suspect to face new charges after remains identified as Jimmie 'Jay' Lee CHECK OUT WAPT:Get the latest Jackson, MS, news. With top local, national, and sports stories, plus all the Jackson weather ...
Jimmy Lee Jackson was shot in the stomach two weeks ago; he died last Friday morning. His death will probably prove, for the ten thousandth time, that it is not a crime for a white man to kill a ...
The attorney representing the man accused of killing Jimmie "Jay" Lee is requesting to have a new charge against his client ...
Lafayette County Circuit Court Judge Kelly Luther denied bond for Herrington during a Thursday livestreamed hearing in Oxford ...
James "Spider" Martin was assigned to photograph the protests in Alabama after civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson was killed by state... A woman laid out in the street, unconscious.
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HE IS CHARGED WITH CAPITAL MURDER IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEATH OF UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI STUDENT, JIMMIE "JAY" LEE. LEE'S BODY WAS FOUND EARLIER THIS YEAR AFTER HE WENT MISSING IN JULY OF An ...
They were protesting voter suppression and the shooting death of activist Jimmie Lee Jackson. Sixty years later -- the celebration of what they were fighting for continues today. Long after Bloody ...
Sheldon Timothy Herrington Jr. was denied bond in the murder case of Ole Miss student Jimmie ... violence in Jackson? In response, the prosecution argued in court that when Lee's remains were ...
16 WAPT'S KENNEDI COOPER HAS MORE ON HOW HE'S BEING REMEMBERED. áááNAT SOUND OF SINGINGááá SOT: JIMMIE LEE SR. <0:35-0:42> "HAVING MY SON HOME OUR SON HOME THATS THE ICING OF THE CAKE THAT MEANT THE ...