Lovely Jackson

[Available June 17 on various VOD platforms.] Creative photography and poignant reenactments highlight Waldeck's powerful, primarily black-and-white, riveting, gut-wrenching, moving, arty, heartbreaking, ire-inducing, 104-minute documentary, which is reminiscent of When They See Us and Trial 4, in which wrongly convicted African American Rickey Jackson recounts the horrific 39 years (3 years on death row) he spent in a notorious Ohio prison after he was erroneously arrested at age 18 for the cold-blooded murder of money order collector Harold Franks in Cleveland on May 19, 1975, after police coerced 12-year-old newspaper carrier Edward Vernon to claim he was an eye-witness and finally exonerated and released in 2014 with support of the Ohio Innocence Project's attorneys Mark Godsey and Mary McGrath.
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