Murder of Wharlest Jackson

Wharlest Jackson (December 7, 1929 – February 27, 1967) was an American civil rights activist who was murdered by a car bomb, with evidence of involvement by the Silver Dollar Group, a white supremacy organization affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan. The case was officially closed by the United States Department of Justice in 2017. Although it names a number of suspects from the original interviews in the 1960s, as of…

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