[JPL] Jack Johnson - Bass Player!

[maxx myrick]

Update on story. 

“In 1999, President Bill Clinton pardoned Lt. Henry O. Flipper, the Army's first black commissioned officer, who was drummed out of the military in 1882 after white officers accused him of embezzling $3,800 in commissary funds. Last year, President George W. Bush pardoned Charles Winters, who was convicted of violating the Neutrality Act when he conspired in 1948 to export aircraft to a foreign country in aid of Israel .”
 
There were lots of black commissioned officers in the US Army prior to Flipper (who was commissioned, I think, in 1882).  Stephen Swails, Martin Delaney and Andre Callioux are examples from the Civil War.  Flipper was the first black graduate from West Point .  Flipper does hold a parallel with Johnson, though.  The embezzlement charge may well have been leveled against him by white officers who were jealous of the attentions paid on him by a white laundress on his post.  Women were rare on frontier posts, so any time she spent with Flipper would have been both noticed and resented by the other officers, all of whom were white.

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--- On Wed, 4/1/09, EdBride at aol.com <EdBride at aol.com> wrote:

> From: EdBride at aol.com <EdBride at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [JPL] Jack Johnson
> To: jazzproglist at jazzweek.com
> Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 12:45 PM
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> _http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090401/ap_on_go_co/boxing_pardon_
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> (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090401/ap_on_go_co/boxing_pardon)
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