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.