Word: kidnaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...August 1970, Jackson's younger brother Jonathan, 17, tried to kidnap a judge and four others from the Marin County, Calif., courthouse. He reportedly said that he meant to use his hostages to 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...
Berrigan and six others are charged with plotting to kidnap Nixon advisor Henry A. Kissinger '50, raiding draft boards, and bombing government heating tunnels in Washington...
...Harrisburg Pilgrimage Committee was organized in support of the defendants in the Harrisburg conspiracy trial The defendants in the trial are charged with conspiracy to kidnap presidential advisor Henry A. Kissinger '50, blow up heating ducts in Federal buildings in Washington, D.C., and destroy Selective Service records...
Single Issue. Philip Berrigan, 48, a Josephite priest, and his confreres are accused of conspiring to blow up the heating systems in Government buildings in Washington, destroy draft records in several cities, and kidnap Henry Kissinger to use as a hostage until their demands to end the Viet Nam War were met. The other defendants are: Sister Elizabeth McAlister, 32, an intense, intelligent nun of the order of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary; Mary Cain Scoblick, 33, a former nun, and her husband, Anthony, a priest; Eqbal Ahmad, 41, a fellow at the Adlai Stevenson Institute...
...contestants had not necessarily acted out their ideas; all they were asked to suggest were projects that caused no serious harm. In fact, of all the entries, published this week in a paperback book, by far the most violent comes from a fourth-grade class in Wilmette, Ill.: "Kidnap the presidents of the big car companies and put them in a room and for 30 seconds turn their car pollution on them." It did not win a prize...