{"id":121404,"date":"2026-02-23T18:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/121404\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T18:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:06:07","slug":"flags-in-pennsylvania-ordered-to-half-staff-on-march-7-to-honor-reverend-jesse-jackson-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/121404\/","title":{"rendered":"Flags in Pennsylvania ordered to half-staff on March 7 to honor Reverend Jesse Jackson \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Flags will fly at half-staff in Pennsylvania on March 7 to honor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/trending\/rev-jesse-jackson-iconic-civil-rights-activist-dies-84\/YKR2V4YGJFGDHJLB7FM4QQT4UY\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/trending\/rev-jesse-jackson-iconic-civil-rights-activist-dies-84\/YKR2V4YGJFGDHJLB7FM4QQT4UY\/\">Reverend Jesse Jackson<\/a>, who passed away earlier in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Gov. Josh Shapiro announced the flag order on Monday. Flags on all Commonwealth facilities, public buildings and grounds across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania will fly at half staff on the last day of Rev. Jackson\u2019s memorial services. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The flag order ends at sunset on March 7. All Pennsylvanians are invited to participate. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Flags will fly at half-staff in Pennsylvania on March 7 to honor Reverend Jesse Jackson, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[57180,442,57179,55404,57182,57181,28,30,29,73],"class_list":["post-121404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-flag-order","tag-gov-josh-shapiro","tag-half-staff","tag-jesse-jackson","tag-jesse-jackson-memorial-services","tag-memorial-services","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pittsburgh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}