On this day in 1967, KKK killed war vet Wharlest Jackson Sr.

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On this day in 1967, KKK killed war vet Wharlest Jackson Sr.

Feb. 27, 1967 Natchez police and agents from the FBI inspect the truck that exploded in a bomb blast and killed Wharlest Jackson on 27 February 1967. Credit: Associated Press Wharlest Jackson Sr., a Korean War veteran and treasurer of the NAACP branch in Natchez, Mississippi, became a Ku Klux Klan target after he was promoted to a whites-only position at his job in Natchez.  It was a promotion his wife, Exerlena Jackson, wanted him to turn down …