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...cater to the individual tastes of their customers, banks have long printed checks in a wide spectrum of colors. More recently some have begun to offer checks with floral or scenic backgrounds. Now the modest-sized Bank of Marin in Marin County, Calif., has gone one step further. Its customers can simply bring in their own photograph or drawing and have them printed onto a standard check form...
...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...
...Angela told reporters, "This has been a true victory, a people's victory-not only my release but the abolition of capital punishment." Then she went back to preparing for her trial on murder, kidnaping and conspiracy charges for allegedly providing four guns used in the August 1970 Marin County courthouse shootout in which a judge, two convicts and an accomplice were killed...
Gerald Hawes, an HEW employee who was serving as a grand juror in California's Marin County, recently resigned in disgust at such jury docility. Hawes was on the panel investigating George Jackson's killing in San Quentin, and for background he had read the transcript of the Angela Davis grand jury hearing. Not a single question was asked by a juror in that case, Hawes reports, and in the Jackson case, he says, the prosecutor specifically urged the jurors to ask no questions. Several grand jurors in the Ted Kennedy Chappaquiddick case also reported feeling frustrated; they...
...Questin. Nor can anything be done for the 43 cadavers carried out of Attica. Theirs was a final exit. But the irrational drama in which they once participated continues--in California, where on the basis of the testimony of 25 witnesses (all of whom were guards) a Marin County grand jury has indicted seven San Questin cons for conspiracy in the killings of the five dead whites--in New York, where a special ultra-maximum security lock-up has been proposed for "revolutionary" inmates--and in Boston, where Malik Hakim, a-k-a Albert Bradford, awaits what may well...