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...then, however, she had already established a connection with the Hearst family. While at PIN, she had struck up a friendship with Wilbert ("Popeye") Jackson, the black ex-convict who had formed the United Prisoners Union, dedicated to advancing prison reform. (He was gunned down in San Francisco on June 8 by unknown assassins.) Popeye, hinting at contacts with the S.L.A., approached Randolph Hearst with an offer to intercede for Patty's release. Sensing an opportunity, Moore managed to become the go-between in the dealings. It was a role that caught the attention of FBI agents, who thought...
...MOVEMENT'S MORALS: I did not particularly like the world I was in with the black man [Wilbert ("Popeye") Jackson] who had made the offer to help Randy Hearst. You know, the murky world of drugs, of wholesale screwing, of filthy language. I was beginning to have my doubts that the man I was dealing with . . . It seemed to me he was trying only to help himself...
What is known is that the groups are growing increasingly violent. FBI officials suspect that radicals have committed some of the state's recent unsolved murders. Among these is the slaying of Wilbert ("Popeye") Jackson, a black activist who the FBI believes was killed because radicals suspected-incorrectly-that he was a squealer. Last year the radicals claimed responsibility for 19 bombings in California; so far this year they have...
Port St. Joe, in the panhandle of Florida, is in one of those swampy, redneck, Southern counties where everything moves at a slow and measured pace-except the courts when they are dealing with black defendants. After Freddie Pitts and Wilbert Lee were charged with murder, it took just three weeks before they were found guilty and sentenced to the electric chair. Evidence suggesting that their "confessions" had been coerced slowed the process not a bit. Later investigations strongly suggested that the two men were innocent but by then the local law was back in its familiar subtropical torpor...
...sign of danger for the Mayaguez was the sudden appearance at 2:20 p.m. (3:20 a.m. in Washington) of a Cambodian gunboat. It fired machine gun bullets and a rocket across the freighter's bow and forced her to stop. Radio Operator Wilbert Bock got off a last distress call. Then the Cambodians apparently located the radio shack and the radio fell silent. But the last message was picked up in Indonesia by agents of the ship's owner and relayed to the State Department in Washington...