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By Amy Vitrano

MINDEN, La. -Request denied. The Webster Parish Police Jury announced Tuesday it will not fulfill the NAACP’s request for an apology for a racially motivated killing that took place in 1946.

John C. Jones, an African American man and World War II veteran was beaten to death by six white men in August of that year. Two of those men were Webster Parish sheriff’s deputies.

The police jury president Jim Bonsall announced its members unanimously decided to deny the NAACP’s request for an apology.

At the time the NAACP president, Rev. Kenneth Wallace, was not there. When he arrived to the meeting, he was given the right to talk.

“I am sorely disappointed in this Jury’s refusal to consider any of the six initiatives that were proposed at last month’s meeting which would bring permanent recognition and some since of justice for the gross injustice that Corp. Jones and Mr. Harris, Jr. [went through],” said Wallace.

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• Webster Parish NAACP wants apology from Police Jury in 66-year-old murder case (ktbs.com)
• Minden debate over apology: why bring it up now? (ktbs.com)

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Curious as to why some of these stories were removed.