Longtime Louisiana newspaper editor’s work featured in cold case documentary
Research by Stanley Nelson, an author and former Louisiana newspaper editor, will be featured in the FRONTLINE show. (Photo courtesy of Wes Faulk and Stanley Nelson)
The work of a longtime Louisiana newspaper editor will be included in a PBS FRONTLINE documentary Tuesday on the 1967 Ku Klux Klan murder of Wharlest Jackson, a 37-year-old Black man in Natchez, Mississippi.
Jackson, who had five children, was treasurer of the Natchez NAACP. He was killed when a bomb planted beneath his truck exploded while he was riding home from work.
The editor, Stanley Nelso…
