J. J. Jameson (born Norman A. Porter Jr.; c. 1940 – 2023) was a self-proclaimed poet and activist, who was active in Chicago, Illinois, from the mid-1980s until March 2005.
[citation needed] Jameson was best known for his live performances as a poet and MC at local poetry jams and open mike nights.
Friends and acquaintances planned to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of his arrival in Chicago with a roast and poetry reading later in 2005.
In 1961, while awaiting trial on those charges, Porter was involved in the fatal assault in and shooting of the head jailer, David S. Robinson, at Middlesex County jail in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and escaped from prison only to be captured while holding up a grocery store in New Hampshire.
Despite the support of prison officials and members of a Chicago church congregation, the parole board rejected Porter's request because he showed "limited remorse" and "continues to minimize his criminal activity.