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Remembering his grandmother's stories of an African ancestor, author Alex Haley began to search for facts which would authenticate her oral history and rediscovered a rich cultural history that had been lost, along with his family's name, in slavery. Following the publication of his first book, The Autobiography of Malcom X, Haley began a 12-year quest which included over half a million miles of travel across three continents to find the name of his first known African ancestor, "Kunte Kinte," and the exact location of his family village, Juffure, in West Africa, now Gambia; that ancestor...
...tradition begun by that distant ancestor Kunte Kinte, each child in the successive generations in Haley's family was told the family history, which by Haley's time had been pared down considerably. He remembers his grandmother referring to their ancestor, "the African," who called the banjo "ko," the river "Kamby Bolongo," and who was out chopping wood for a drum at the age of 16 when four white slave traders kidnapped him and brought him to the United States...
...trial may well mark the final effort to exorcize the specter of Jackson from the Marin courthouse. In 1970 the same building was the scene of the kidnap-shootout that Jackson's brother Jonathan hoped would force George's release from San Quentin. Instead, Jonathan, Judge Harold Haley and two prisoners were killed. Now the question facing a seven-woman, five-man jury is whether the six San Quentin defendants conspired to launch the 1971 break and are guilty of murder...
Heavy Hitter. To beef up his goofball outfit, Buttermaker recruits a couple of sawed-off powerhouses. Amanda Whurlitzer (Tatum O'Neal), the tomboy daughter of an old flame of Buttermaker's, is expert in the fine art of the fastball and the spitter; Kelly Leak (Jackie Earle Haley), a local terror who chain smokes and rides a Harley, is a heavy hitter. He also has the hots for Amanda. With Kelly and Amanda on the team, the Bears start...
...George Hughes C 26 15 32 47 14 2 Dave Bell W 25 22 19 41 28 1 Bill Hozack C 26 10 27 37 4 3 Phelps Swift W 26 16 15 31 2 2 Kevin Swift C 26 9 18 27 24 0 Paul Haley W 19 9 13 22 10 1 Bill Horton W 26 11 9 20 16 0 Gene Purdy W 26 8 12 20 18 1 Todd Nieland D 26 4 14 18 40 1 Kevin Burke W 24 12 3 15 2 1 Jon Schuster D 26 4 10 14 30 0 Kevin...