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...Strangely - or perhaps not so strangely - they found themselves identifying with the prisoners rather than with the custodians. "If a man should need to have that banal word freedom redefined," said San Francisco Bureau Chief Jesse Birnbaum, "let him spend an hour behind the walls of a prison like Soledad or San Quentin. New have his definition the moment he walks out." Entering New Orleans' of Paris Prison reminded Chicago Correspondent Sam Iker of being and into an ancient submarine: "A combination of heat and smell, stale air, kitchen aromas and perspiring bodies." Washington's Dean State found...
...January 13, 1969, fifteen prisoners were skin searched and ordered out to the special exercise yard of Soledad Prison. Guards, I believe, do not walk with the prisoners in the yard. Instead the prisoners are overseen by tower guards, who, from the high towers at the corners of the yard, look down at the prisoners through the sights of automatic rifles. This day, January 13, a fight broke out between a white and a black inmate. The tower guard began to fire at the black inmates walking in the yard. He fired four shots, and three men were killed...
...grand jury was announced on the prison radio a white guard, not the same guard who had killed the men, was found beaten to death. Six days later three black convicts were charged with his murder. They are Fleeta Drumgo, John Cluchette and George Jackson, called "The Soledad Brothers." Attorneys for The Soledad Brothers say these inmates were charged not because of any evidence connecting them with the beating, but because they had previously been identified by the prison authorities as black militants, men who refuse to bend, to become docile, to betray other inmates, to be subservient...
...more than most ideas will ever be our own. There are signs I know in the visiting rooms of prisons that say Do Not Give the Prisoners Anything. And no one ever does. What they know they must work out for themselves. There is no Black Panther newspaper in Soledad. For all George Jackson knows he is the only Marxist in America. He must create himself. Just as at this time he practices disciplining his hunger (he goes for weeks eating two slices of bread a day); his need for human companionship (he practices no speaking so that he will...
...guard remove his handcuffs. He turned to the jury: "I have been unjustly accused, I want to be a free man." Jonathan armed two other convicts who were there as witnesses. They took five hostages including the judge. On the way out of the courtroom Jonathan said, "Free the Soledad Brothers by 12:30 tomorrow...