Word: drumgo
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...Hugo A. Pinell, Willie Tate, Johnny Larry Spain, David Johnson, Fleeta Drumgo and Luis Talamantez...
...opening statement, Prosecutor Harris had to go back over the events that led to the Davis trial. In January 1970, George Jackson and two other blacks, Fleeta Drumgo and John Clutchette, were charged with the murder of John Mills, a guard at the state prison in Soledad, Calif. Jackson had already spent ten years in prison for a $70 robbery; there he turned into a skillful revolutionary dialectician and a leader of Soledad's militant black inmates. The 1970 indictments made him a radical hero, and the three became known as the Soledad Brothers...
...bargain for release of the Soledad Brothers. In the shootout that followed, the judge, young Jackson and two of his accomplices were killed. About a year later, George Jackson, then 30, was fatally shot at San Quentin in what prison authorities called an escape attempt. Last week, ironically, Drumgo, 26, and Clutchette, 29, were acquitted of the Soledad guard's murder by an all-white jury in San Francisco. Now, Angela Davis, 28, the former U.C.L.A. philosophy instructor and proclaimed Communist, was on trial for murder, kidnaping and criminal conspiracy in supposedly helping Jonathan in the fatal attempt...
...implication of the note was that Mills had been killed in an act of revenge. To substantiate their charge that revenge was the motive, prison officials described Jackson. Drumgo and Cluchette in term freighted with references to their potential savagery. The officials claimed that Jackson was known as "Karate Jackson." The monicker was false. Jackson had never carried such an alias. Prison officials later claimed never to have said...
...Soledad case, just as he has been railroaded into a life sentence ten years before because his ignorance of the law, his poverty, race and previous record marked him expendable. Many of those who claim that Jackson is innocent question the possibility that he could have received--or that Drumgo and Cluchette will receive--a fair trial. It would have been in Jackson's case--and will be in the case of the other two Soledad Brothers--too easy for California officials to manipulate and confect incriminating evidence. Potential defense witnesses could be intimidate by the threat of prolonged confinement...