Jim Leslie (journalist), Date of Birth, Date of Death

Jim Leslie (journalist)

American journalist and public relations specialist

Date of Birth: 27-Oct-1937

Date of Death: 09-Jul-1976

Profession: businessperson, journalist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

James S.
Leslie (October 27, 1937 – July 9, 1976), known as Jim Leslie, was a journalist for The Shreveport Times who became a public relations and advertising executive in Shreveport in northwestern Louisiana.
He is known for having been a homicide victim in the state capital, Baton Rouge on July 9, 1976, in a case described by the police as a "professional hit." George W.
D'Artois, the Public Safety Commissioner in Shreveport, was twice arrested in the case; the first time he was released for lack of evidence.
He was arrested again on charges of first-degree murder in April 1977, suspected of contracting for the murder of Leslie, but he died in June of that year during heart surgery.
No one was tried in the case. Leslie had been hired by D'Artois in 1974 to manage communications in his reelection campaign; he had been in office since 1962.
In the mid-1970s, D'Artois was the subject of an extended investigation by the Shreveport Times.
Leslie had told a friend earlier in 1976 that D'Artois had tried to pay him with city funds for his work on his 1974 campaign, and warned him against testifying before a grand jury.
With a full-scale investigation of the commissioner underway, Leslie was called to testify to a grand jury about alleged corruption in D'Artois's department.