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There is no obituary on this guy? Died at the age of 39... it would be nice to know the reason for such an early death.-- 76.204.179.73 10:50, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers has fully indexed newspapers online. I checked for Merrell Jackson in The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, and The New York Times from 1970 to 1991, but found only four references in the Tribune, 1972-1973 (one misspelling his first name as Merell); and one in the NY Times review of the movie Godspell. The Chicago Defender, that city's leading weekly newspaper for the black community, had no mention of Jackson in the two weeks following his death. Walloon ( talk) 22:28, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
I found Merrell Jackson's obituary in the Chicago Defender, which is not available online. I have the hard copy. I have not yet learned how to post it on google but will adjust it so it is accessible when I do. I have cited it in Merrell's page in this site "Services Held For Singer Jackson." ( 98.176.136.77 ( talk) 18:23, 23 May 2010 (UTC))
Update on this issue? Did everybody just drop the ball over ten years ago? The wikipedia article on this guy is pathetic. Incomplete sentences, sloppy, artless, careless. I think we could do better even if he was a janitor. Zengalileo ( talk) 18:56, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
Incomplete sentences, poorly organized, sloppy, artless. Lazy writing. We should do better. Zengalileo ( talk) 18:58, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
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There is no obituary on this guy? Died at the age of 39... it would be nice to know the reason for such an early death.-- 76.204.179.73 10:50, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers has fully indexed newspapers online. I checked for Merrell Jackson in The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, and The New York Times from 1970 to 1991, but found only four references in the Tribune, 1972-1973 (one misspelling his first name as Merell); and one in the NY Times review of the movie Godspell. The Chicago Defender, that city's leading weekly newspaper for the black community, had no mention of Jackson in the two weeks following his death. Walloon ( talk) 22:28, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
I found Merrell Jackson's obituary in the Chicago Defender, which is not available online. I have the hard copy. I have not yet learned how to post it on google but will adjust it so it is accessible when I do. I have cited it in Merrell's page in this site "Services Held For Singer Jackson." ( 98.176.136.77 ( talk) 18:23, 23 May 2010 (UTC))
Update on this issue? Did everybody just drop the ball over ten years ago? The wikipedia article on this guy is pathetic. Incomplete sentences, sloppy, artless, careless. I think we could do better even if he was a janitor. Zengalileo ( talk) 18:56, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
Incomplete sentences, poorly organized, sloppy, artless. Lazy writing. We should do better. Zengalileo ( talk) 18:58, 22 November 2020 (UTC)