Johnnie Robinson – Federal Bureau of Investigation Civil Rights Investigation File: Officer Jack Parker

Description

Sixty-four-page Federal Bureau of Investigation civil-rights investigative file concerning Birmingham Police Department Officer Jack Parker and the fatal shooting of Johnnie Brown Robinson. The records are associated with FBI Birmingham Field Office File No. 44-1087 and Bureau File No. 44-23325 and document federal investigative activity beginning after Robinson’s September 15, 1963 death. The file contains FBI reports, airtels and internal communications, witness interviews, biographical and investigative information concerning Robinson and Parker, newspaper clippings, coordination with the U.S. Attorney and local authorities, and records concerning state and federal grand-jury proceedings.

The file records that a Birmingham grand jury returned a no-bill as to Parker in October 1963 and that the matter was subsequently presented to a federal grand jury in August 1964. The federal grand jury likewise returned a no-bill on August 28, 1964. The compilation therefore documents both the FBI’s investigation of Robinson’s death and the eventual federal prosecutorial disposition of the case.