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I also read in Black Belt Magazine that Howard Jackson had passed away on March 7, 2006. I got this information from this web site, he was a great Martial Artist.
Howard Jackson (54) actor who parlayed his martial arts skills into stunt work with Chuck Norris in films and TV, who trained with Norris at his Torrance studio and with his traveling team of martial artists and later worked as Norris’s body guard and personal trainer, and who acted and performed stunts in The Delta Force and other martial arts themed films, died of leukemia in Duarte, California on March 7, 2006