Jackson provided guest vocals in the episode, playing the character of Leon Kompowsky, a burly, institutionalized man claiming he’s the pop star. Of course, the premiere episode of Season 3, “Stark Raving Dad,” recently made headlines when the show’s chief creative team-including Jean, who co-wrote and produced the episode with Reiss- decided to pull it after seeing the documentary Leaving Neverland, wherein James Safechuck and Wade Robson recounted, in graphic detail, the child sexual abuse they allegedly suffered at the hands of music legend Michael Jackson. The Harvard pals, who’d served in the show’s writers’ room since its inception, assumed the role of showrunner in Season 3, and, with classic episodes like “Flaming Moe’s” and “Homer at the Bat,” it’s since been recognized by Springfield historians as the start of the animated sitcom’s so-called “Golden Age.” Jean and Reiss would remain showrunners through Season 4, and then, following a brief stint helming The Critic, Jean returned to The Simpsons in Season 10, and then resumed running the show in Season 13-and has continued ever since. Brooks, and Sam Simon, themselves titans of comedy, the fate of The Simpsons forever shifted in 1991, when duo Al Jean and Mike Reiss took the reins. He is portrayed by Frank Orsatti in the film.With all due respect to series creators Matt Groening, James L. Jackson's death is named and shown near the beginning of the semi-biographical movie on Lee Harvey Oswald assassin Jack Ruby named Ruby. These possibilities have not been verified. ![]() Humphreys, wife of Outfit fixer Murray "The Camel" Humphreys, asserted the conversation where the government learned about Jackson's fate was staged by mobsters who were aware that the government had planted a microphone. Other theories Īccording to Gus Russo, author of The Outfit, there were Mob insiders who believed Jackson was killed for raping an imprisoned Mob-connected burglar's wife. Jackson's body was found on August 12, 1961, in the trunk of his own car, which had been abandoned on Lower Wacker Drive in Chicago. Then they left him for three days until he finally succumbed to his wounds. They stripped him naked, smashed his kneecaps with a bat, one of them shot him with a gun, broke his ribs, stuck him with sharp objects, used a cattle prod on his penis and anus making him evacuate his bowels, burned parts of his body with a blow torch. Jackson kept insisting he was not an informer but his torturers did not believe him. Jackson was impaled through his rectum with a meat hook, hanging a foot in the air, while being questioned by mob enforcers. He had many cuts and burns all over his body, his chest had been crushed and he had a hole in his right ear from some type of sharp object. When police found the almost naked body of Jackson, he was face forward with rope marks on his wrists and feet. It is suspected that his killers took Jackson there at gunpoint, where he was tortured and killed in what is known as one of the most brutal gangland killings in American history. ![]() According to sources, he was kidnapped and taken to a meat-rendering plant on Chicago's South Side, where he was tortured by Outfit gangsters. Nonetheless, in 1961 Jackson was so accused. Being a loyal member of the Outfit, Jackson declined. In 1960, FBI agent Bill Roemer asked Jackson to become an informant for the FBI. Agents learned that Jackson was a "juice" collector for Sam DeStefano. ![]() ![]() While the others tried to escape, Jackson stood still because he was too fat to run. In 1961, Jackson was arrested along with five others at a warehouse as they were unloading $70,000 worth of electrical appliances from a stolen truck. In 1953, he was paroled and became a muscle man for gangsters in Chicago. In 1949, he was arrested and sentenced to four to eight years in prison for robbery. In 1947, he was arrested and charged with rape, but was not convicted. In 1941 he was arrested in Green Bay, Wisconsin, for assault and robbery. He was tortured to death by his fellow gangsters, allegedly on suspicion that he had become an informant for the FBI.Ĭhicago police described Jackson as "a man with the body of a giant and the brain of a child", who was known in syndicate circles as a mob "juice" collector who specialized in pain for delinquent customers. He earned his nickname of "Action" because it was slang for "Juice Man", which meant debt-collector. William Jackson, also known as Action Jackson (Decem– August 11, 1961) was an enforcer and loan collector for the Chicago Outfit.
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