James Bonard Fowler (born c. 1935), 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. Most famous amongst the reactions provoked by this homicide were marches from Selma to Montgomery.

External links

• “The Death of Jimmy Lee Jackson” by John Fleming in the Anniston Star for 6 March 2005