{"id":121418,"date":"2026-02-23T18:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/121418\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T18:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:18:08","slug":"flags-in-pennsylvania-ordered-to-half-staff-on-march-7-to-honor-reverend-jesse-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/121418\/","title":{"rendered":"Flags in Pennsylvania ordered to half-staff on March 7 to honor Reverend Jesse Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ba479fd41ec740ff693c3dd5f7949780.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Reverend Jesse Jackson;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Reverend Jesse Jackson<\/a>, who passed away earlier in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The flag order ends at sunset on March 7. All Pennsylvanians are invited to participate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:FREE WPXI News app;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Watch WPXI NOW;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flags will fly at half-staff in Pennsylvania on March 7 to honor Reverend Jesse Jackson, who passed away&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6203,33,28,30,29,55503],"class_list":["post-121418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-flags","tag-josh-shapiro","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-reverend-jesse-jackson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121418","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=121418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}