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 MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The personnel file of a retired white state trooper charged this week with killing a black man at a 1965 civil rights rally doesn't mention the death at all. Also left out was the killing of another black man a year later that a prosecutor says the trooper also committed on duty.
James Bonard Fowler won high ratings in his job reviews following the fatal shootings until he was fired in 1968 for striking a superior officer, according to records provided by the Highway Patrol at the request of The Associated Press.
Fowler, 73, of Geneva, surrendered Thursday in Marion to face a murder indictment for the shooting death of Jimmie Lee Jackson on Feb. 18, 1965. Fowler, who is free on bond, maintains he shot when Jackson tried to grab his gun during a struggle between marchers and state troopers.
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