Word: shootout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there are some elementsyou may not know them immediatelythat don't see color. The badge is enough." In Detroit last month in front of the headquarters of a group associated with the Black Panthers, one black patrolman, Glenn Edward Smith, was killed in a shootout, and another, Marshall Emerson, caught a bullet fragment in one hand. "Black people put us all in one bag now," says Emerson. "I'm not out there to be an oppressor, but to the community I'm just a pig." Chicago's Octave Richard insists that some...
Angela was wanted by California authorities for allegedly supplying the guns used by the kidnapers in last summer's bloody Marin County courthouse shootout (TIME, Aug. 24). A onetime member of the Black Panther Party, she often traveled the state raising money and organizing the defense of the Soledad Three, a trio of blacks accused of killing a California prison guard. A frequent companion, Jonathan Jackson, was a leader in the courthouse kidnap attempt...
...first choice. Still, many questions remain unanswered. Why didn't she leave the country? Why did she go to New York, and once there, why did she fail to go underground in the black community? What role, if any, did the Communist Party play in the Marin County shootout...
Incredible New Breed. Three days later, the San Francisco Examiner and KCBS Radio received letters bragging about the San Rafael explosion. This same courthouse was the scene of the shootout in August between police and escaping San Quentin prisoners in which Judge Harold Haley, two convicts and 17-year-old Jonathon Jackson were killed. The notes dedicated the bombing to all political prisoners and to "an incredible new breed of freedom fighters, fighting where there is no place to hide." It was signed by "The Weathermen Underground," the same closing used on the Dohrn tape...
Superior Court Judge Harold J. Haley, two of the convicts and the man who brought the weapon into the courtroom, Jonathan Jackson, were killed in a shootout...