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Civil Rights leader Jesse Jackson announces he has Parkinson's

Posted at 9:27 AM, Nov 17, 2017
and last updated 2017-11-17 12:31:32-05

Civil Rights leader Jesse Jackson has announced that he has Parkinson's disease. 

In a tweet on Friday morning, Jackson said after a battery of tests, he was found to have the disease. He said that was the disease that "bested my father".