James Bonard Fowler

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James Bonard Fowler (b. September 1933), as a corporal in the Alabama state police, shot and fatally wounded Jimmie Lee Jackson on 18 February 1965, as Jackson attempted to intervene to protect his mother and grandfather from battery by troopers including Fowler. Fowler claims that he acted in self-defense. Most famous amongst the reactions provoked by this homicide were marches from Selma to Montgomery.

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