Talk:Merrell Jackson
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[edit] Obituary
There is no obituary on this guy? Died at the age of 39... it would be nice to know the reason for such an early death.--76.204.179.73 10:50, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
- It would be nice to know that information — do you have it? We editors don't know where he died, or what he died of. No obituary appeared for him in the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, the New York Times, or Variety. If he died in Illinois, a death certificate is not obtainable until twenty years after the death unless one is a member of his immediate family or has a legal reason. P.S. He died at 38, not 39. — Walloon 14:41, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Newspapers
ProQuest Historical Newspapers has fully indexed newspapers online. I checked for Merrell Jackson in The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, and The New York Times from 1970 to 1991, but found only four references in the Tribune, 1972-1973 (one misspelling his first name as Merell); and one in the NY Times review of the movie Godspell. The Chicago Defender, that city's leading weekly newspaper for the black community, had no mention of Jackson in the two weeks following his death. Walloon (talk) 22:28, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
