The Huffington Post is reporting that former state trooper James Bonard Fowler, 77, took a plea deal Monday in the 1965 slaying of a black man that prompted the “Bloody Sunday” march at Selma and ...

Retired trooper James Bonard Fowler surrendered this morning on two counts of murder in Marion in the 1965 slaying of Jimmie Lee Jackson. Fowler, accompanied by his attorneys, went to the Perry County ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – A former Alabama state trooper who recently pleaded guilty to the civil rights-era killing of a black man says he fears he could be attacked by other inmates after he begins his ...

MARION, Ala. — A white former state trooper pleaded guilty Monday to a lesser charge in the 1965 shooting death of a black man at a civil rights protest, a killing that inspired historic voting rights ...

An Alabama grand jury has indicted James Bonard Fowler, a former police officer, for the murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson, a black Vietnam veteran, during a civil rights protest 42 years ago. Lee's death ...

(Blackamericaweb.com) – Former Alabama State Trooper James Bonard Fowler will spend six months in jail after pleading guilty Monday to second-degree manslaughter in the 1965 death of civil rights ...

A former Alabama state trooper has pleaded guilty to the 1965 murder of a Black civil rights activist, a momentous shooting-death that spurred marches in Selma and Montgomery and contributed to the ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — It took more than four decades for a former Alabama state trooper to be indicted on charges that he gunned down a black demonstrator — a killing that helped ...

A former state trooper turned himself in on a murder charge in the 1965 shooting death of a black man during a civil rights protest. Former trooper James Bonard Fowler, who contends he fired in ...

DAVID J. GARROW, a senior fellow at Cambridge University, is the author of "Bearing the Cross," a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. LAST WEEK’S murder indictment of a ...

It took 45 years, but justice is close to being served in the murder of a Black civil rights protestor from Alabama by a white police officer. James Bonard Fowler, a former state police officer ...