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Jackson State shootings recalled 30 years later
In 1970 on the Jackson State campus a police fusillade killed Phillip Gibbs and James Earl Green during clashes after white motorists harassed students along Lynch Street. Witnesses recall the deafening gunfire and the misinterpreted bottle breakup that sparked the Dormitory shelling, as memories of the event surface amid anniversary remembrances.
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