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...part as retaliation for anti-Soviet demonstrations over the fate of accused Jewish plane hijackers, much of the Communist world, led by Moscow, began a propaganda campaign against the trial of Angela Davis in California. One of the first attacks came from 14 prominent Russian scientists who wrote a letter to President Nixon suggesting that Miss Davis was being persecuted for her Communist ideology and black activism...
...accused killers are three unrelated blacks who call themselves the Soledad Brothers. They include George Jackson (see page 54), one of the angriest black men. In one of his many despairing letters to Angela Davis, the black Communist, Jackson wrote: "They've created in me one irate, resentful nigger?and it's building...
...route that ended at McGuire Air Force Base, 76 miles away in New Jersey. There, surrounded by nine sheriff's deputies and two prison matrons, she was whisked aboard a plane for the flight to Hamilton Air Force Base in California. Finally, after another heavily guarded auto procession, Angela Davis was locked up in the Marin County jail, a few hundred feet from the scene of the grisly courthouse shootout last August that she is accused of having helped plan...
...bloody episode that led to the murder and kidnaping charges against Angela occurred next door to where her hearing took place. On Aug. 7, Superior Court Judge Harold Haley and four other people were taken hostage in the midst of a trial by the three defendants and a 17-year-old youth, who had smuggled guns into the courtroom. In a wild shootout with police that followed, three of the hostages were wounded. The judge and three of the fugitives were killed. Defendant Davis, who had taught philosophy at U.C.L.A. until last June, is accused of murder, conspiracy and kidnaping...
...arraignment the following day, Margaret Burnham, her attorney and childhood friend from Alabama, asked for a continuance of the hearing until the defendant could choose her California defense counsel. Angela, wearing a minidress, and Afroed, spoke only twice to the court during the 15-minute session, answering "Yes" in a barely audible voice to two of Superior Court Judge E. Warren McGuire's procedural questions...