James Thompson Macksey

James "Jette" Thompson Macksey (1919-1995), an African-American detective and agent of the USIA.

Early Life
James Thompson Macksey was born on April 15, 1919, in Baltimore, Maryland to parents of Caribbean and French descent and in 1937 also attended the University of Eastbury in Massachusetts. He decided to enlist in the U.S. Army in 1939 and became a private and fought in many battles.

Macksey participated in the Battle of the Bulge on December 20, 1944, and also he was awarded a Medal of Honor. In 1945 James Thompson Macksey was also wounded in the leg when a German officer shot him. He became a USIA agent in 1956 and was very outspoken in ways of doing cases.