The Man Who Shot Jimmie Lee Jackson, In His Own Words

By John Fleming
Nov 16, 2010
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[Editors' Note: Former state trooper James Bonard Fowler plead guilty this week to a misdemeanor manslaughter charge in the 1965 shooting of Jimmie Lee Jackson in Alabama.

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