Johnnie Robinson – Newspaper Article, “Jury Declines to Indict Officer”

Description

Contemporary newspaper clipping headlined “Jury Declines to Indict Officer,” reporting that a grand jury declined to indict Birmingham Police Officer Jack Parker in connection with the fatal shooting of Johnnie Robinson. The surviving reproduction is mounted on a clipping-service sheet identifying Birmingham, Alabama, and bearing the date October 11, 1963; the sheet references The Birmingham News and The Birmingham Post-Herald, although the surviving reproduction does not permit the specific publication of the clipping to be established with confidence. The article documents contemporary public reporting of the grand-jury disposition and was preserved as part of the Robinson investigative record.