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and Beatrice, three years older. Her year of birth had been misreported for years as 1926, the year Jackson gave in a 1962 interview.Jackson's mother was of Irish Catholic descent and her father, whose original name was , had emigrated from Croatia (then part of Austria-Hungary) in 1918. Her family moved to Brooklyn, New York when she was eight years old. She attended Franklin K. Lane High School.

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