CHICAGO — Jesse Jackson sat in a wheelchair near the back wall of a darkened restaurant at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place. It was late Thursday morning, the final day of the Democratic ...

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Soon, a platoon of Jackson aides pushed his wheelchair to a waiting van, which rolled away slowly into the Chicago night. One day later, Jackson would make a similar, brief visit to the spotlight.

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Parkinson’s disease has slowed The Rev. Jesse Jackson. At 83 years old he is wheelchair bound and needs assistance to stand up. Jackson's words form slowly when he chooses to speak.

Civil Rights leader Jesse Jackson Sr. receives standing ovation on Day 1 of DNC Jackson, 82, entered the stage in a wheelchair, holding up both thumbs up in triumph to a cheering crowd.

Jackson, 82, waved and gave a thumbs-up from his wheelchair on stage but did not make a speech on Monday evening. In 2017, ... Jesse Jackson ran for president in 1984.

The crowd rose to a standing ovation as Jesse Jackson, a longtime civil-rights activist and Democratic political leader, appeared onstage in a wheelchair. Jackson, 82 years old, made a strong run ...

Like several survivors of that violent day in 1965, when police brutally attacked civil rights protesters, Jackson crossed the bridge in a wheelchair. Jesse Louis Jackson was born Oct. 8, 1941, in ...