i left it on the bed in my room and when i went back there that was the first thing i looked for and it was gone. the military gave jackson replacements but the original went missing for 42 years until 1987 when jackson got a call that the metal was on display at a tv repair shop in chester, south carolina. the shop s owner told me he bought the medal at a gun show in charlotte, north carolina for $300 and agreed to give it back to jackson. what he got back in the mail was not his real medal it was this one, a fake. for 25 years the fbi believed shockley either kept the original or sold it. jackson s wife is outraged. it makes me angry that somebody would lie and cheat for what? i mean what is it giving him? in a series of phone conversations shockley repeatedly insisted he did the right thing back in 1987. is it possible, joel, that
you gave him a different medal but held on to the original? no, it is not. i swear to god and i m christian, that is the medal. only one i ever had and that is the one that i sent him back. sources close to the investigation say the fbi is now considering the possibility that the medal shockley bought from the gun show was a fake which may mean art jackson s real medal of honor is still out there somewhere. jackson, just one of two surviving world war ii medal of honor recipients is too modest to ask for its return. medals, what the hell. i know what i did and what i got for it and i m proud of that. but the fbi is hoping whoever has it will do the right thing and get it back in the hands of a true american hero. in atlanta, john roberts, fox
facing charges stemming from the incident. massachusetts police say they believe the man may have been speeding. here s an unfortunate story. a marine who risked his life during world war ii is hoping to get his medal of honor back. art jackson was awarded the medal by president truman back in 1944. sadly, he only had it for a few weeks before it was stolen from the waldorf astoria hotel. i left it in its box on the bed in the room. i knew when i went back there, that was the first thing i was looking for and it was gone. here s the thing. back in 1987, jackson received a call telling him his medal was on display at a tv repair shop in south carolina. the store owner said he got it at a gun show. but when he mailed it back, jackson realized it was fake. the f.b.i. believes the man never had jackson s medal after all. so it s still probably out
john: finally as we head toward independence day, a story about one american hero that helped keep our independence possible. his name is art jackson and he received a medal of honor for the pacific island n of pelalu in world war ii. storming the beaches, jackson seventh marines unit was pinned down by murderous japanese fire. he stormed bunkers single handily taking out 12 of them. according to citations he contributed to the complete annihilation of the enemy. president truman put the medal of honor around his neck, but few on years later on a hero s tour he left his medal in a room at
the hotel. when he returned it was gone. 42 years later, in 1987, jackson got a call that his medal was on display a tv repair shop. owner said he bought it for $300 at a gun show in charlotte. he agreed to send the metal back but what he sent back wasn t his medal of honor. it was fake. for the next 25 years, f.b.i. agents shot he had kept the real medal for himself and give jackson a fact simply. after we started looking into it new evidence came to lighted that shockingly may have never possessed the real medal and what he bought at the gun show was a fake which means art jackson s medal of honor is still out there somewhere, in display case or tucked away in someone s safe inscribed with his name, president truman and pelalu.