Word: soledad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...switched apartments three times. Then she became active in the cause of "the Soledad Three," black convicts accused of murdering a guard at Soledad State Prison in a continuing racial conflict...
...armed invasion of a California courtroom, designed to force release of the Soledad Three, a way of "dealing with specific problems now"? Angela Davis carried the answer with her into hiding. Most of her friends presume her innocence, though they are troubled. But the circumstantial evidence kept accumulating last week. Police say she purchased a shotgun two days before it was used to murder Judge Harold J. Haley, as well as three other weapons used in the shootout. A day before the killings, she was reported seen in the yellow truck in which the judge was killed. Three hours after...
...Davis has purchased in recent years, were brought to the Marin courthouse by Jonathan Jackson, 17, who died in the ensuing shootout. For some time the boy had been a frequent companion of Angela, often traveling with her as she raised money and organized the legal defense for the "Soledad Three." The three are blacks accused of killing a guard in a Soledad, Calif., prison, whose case has been made a cause Célè by the black militant community. The youthful Jackson had more than an ideological interest in the Soledad Three: one of them was his brother...
Burger made his appeal for decency on the day of the California kidnaping, the most bizarre affront to justice in a long time. Jonathon Jackson, 17, brother of a black accused of racial killings in a Soledad, Calif, prison, walked into the Marin County Hall of Justice in San Rafael, 15 miles north of San Francisco. Judge Harold Haley, 65, was presiding over the trial of James McClain, accused of stabbing a San Quentin prison guard while serving a sentence for burglary. Other San Quentin inmates were on hand as witnesses. Ruchell Magee, 31, was inside the courtroom; William Christmas...