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Jackie Robinson Jr. was killed in an automobile accident on June 17, 1971. He was 24 years old.
In Jackie Robinson's bio it said his son the oldest Jackie Jr. died of a car accident to drug addiction that started when he went to the Vietnam War. that just what I read. Very sad.

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