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November 2010

Waiting for Justice: Jury selection begins Monday in civil right-era killing
by John Fleming Anniston Star November 14, 2010

More than five years ago, former Alabama state trooper James Fowler admitted to The Anniston Star that he shot an unarmed civil rights worker during a 1965 melee in a small, west-central Alabama town. Until his admission, the public did not know the identity of the man responsible for the gunshot wounds that killed Jimmie Lee Jackson in Marion.

Now, 45 years after Jackson’s death, five years after the naming of Fowler as the man who shot him and three years after a grand jury indictment, the slow wheels of justice may be turning in the rural part of Alabama’s Black Belt. On Monday, Perry County’s chief prosecutor said last week, jury selection will commence, and with it, “fireworks.”

Former state trooper, 77, gets six month sentence for civil rights-era slaying
by John Fleming Anniston Star November 17, 2010

A former Alabama state trooper pleaded guilty Monday to the shooting death of a man 45 years ago at the height of the civil rights movement.

The trooper, James Bonard Fowler of Black, pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree manslaughter. He had been charged with two counts of murder in the shooting of Jimmie Lee Jackson during a melee in a restaurant in Marion in 1965.

FBI investigating former Alabama trooper for another killing
by Jerry Mitchell Clarion-Ledger November 22, 2010

The FBI continues to investigate former Alabama trooper James Bonard Fowler for yet another killing, the Montgomery Advertiser is reporting.

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