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We now return to Kron four presents a of the gun. This program contains graphic pictures and descriptions of violent events. Viewer discretion is advised the bow is taught, it's a beautiful day to die with gun in hand. George Jackson was in control of the adjustment center.

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He ordered Guard Urbano Rubio to open the cell doors in the ac a guy stepped in front of my cell. A black guy had said we're taking over you coming out and staying there. I told him bust it open. I'm coming out. Some two dozen inmates

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were released. They come running out and then after that, it's just murder and mayhem. What's going on is everyone here is trying to survive. That's what's going on. George had said at some point even before this, the point now is to construct a situation where someone

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else joins in the dying. In other words, if you're going to get me, I'm gonna take some of you with me. Do you see George with a gun at some point? Yeah. At, after I was out of my cell for a while, yes, I'm not sure

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which one it was, but I saw him getting strangled. I saw the guy kneeling on his back and he had some kind of a cord like from a radio or something and, uh, he was gagging, kicking his feet. Um, and the guy said this ain't getting

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it and he went off to get a razor blade or something and come back when he started pulling up in his throat and strangling another guy was with him and, um, the kick in of his feet was bothering me. You know, it was like a little

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quick kicks and, uh, I walked around the other side, you know, I didn't wanna watch it. What happened was that the guards were hog tied with electrical cord, uh, from the radio systems in the cells and then their throats were slashed with, um, homemade blades made

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by, made by putting razor blades on the end of toothbrush handles. According to Johnny Spain, he remained in the area of the kitchen and foyer not realizing that the inmate takeover had spiraled out of control. Do you know who killed the guards? No. Do you know

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who assaulted the guards? No, Alan Mancino, however, saw more than he could ever have imagined the guards were growing grunting. They were urinating on themselves and you know, it was a mess man. Uh, you know, it ain't like that you see on TV. You know, it's

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not neat and nice. It's, it's down and dirty sergeant Kenneth mcray was bleeding heavily. Mccray ends up living to tell the tale and living through it miraculously, even though his throat was cut from ear to ear and he's stacked up and the the other guards are,

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are, are piled up on top of him. And alongside of him, mccray was laying next to fellow officer Paul Krasner who also had his throat slashed. Mccray can hear gurgling noises and hearing him say, speak as if he was underwater. And um he makes one last

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prayer. Um May the Lord have mercy on my soul and uh dies moments before guard Frank De Leon was shot in the head. George Jackson was overheard saying it's time we found out if this piece really works. De Leon's body slumped on top of mccray as

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Alan Mancino searched for a safe place. Inmate Ronald Cain questioned what to do. I said, man, I said, you better get you something to work with. I said because we're next, you know, and I was, I was talking to him. I was, I was, you know,

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I was scared but I knew what was gonna happen. They tied him up and they cut his throat. Uh They came to me and said, you want to be tied up to us. No, I'm not getting tied up. Inmate, John Lynn suffered the same fate as

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Ronald Cain. Uh they're murdered. George gives the order. You know, these guys gotta go. They saw too much. They're not one of us, you know. And so these guys become victims. Just by chance, you hear a lot of moaning. A lot of crying, a lot of

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begging. A lot of shut up, shut up and you know, like thugs and it's pretty bad man. I'm just waiting on it to come to me. 23 year old officer Charles Breckenridge would become another victim after escorting inmate John Croucher from the visiting area. Both men

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entered the adjustment center. Breckenridge was seized by inmates. Cloche was uncertain as to what was happening. He moved to a cell on the other side of the ac and some time later saw George Jackson. He was like he was in a daze. I had never seen

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him like that. He was just kind of just walking back and forth. He wasn't saying anything. He, he wasn't talking to anybody. He was just walking back and forth like, you know, I mean, he just had kind of like a just a blank look in his

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eyes. Supervising sergeant Jerry Graham began searching for his officers. They were gone too long. Graham, the married father of four Children had the door to the ac open after he walked in. Graham was taken hostage. The officer who unlocked the ac door looked through the window

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and saw George Jackson staring at him know at that point Jackson fires the gun and that alerts everybody. Moments later, Sergeant Graham was shot dead when Lieutenant Richard Nelson took a break from painting his house on prison grounds. He heard the sound of gunshots. Nelson walked

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outside and saw associate warden James Park running moving very quickly down the hill towards the prison. He said you better get in there. George Jackson's loose with a gun. So at that point, I made my, made the decision in my mind to go directly to the

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armory, grab a machine gun and go in and find George Jackson, shoot him and kill him. The floor of the AC was covered in blood. Johnny Spain was desperate to leave what he called. The chaos was at that point, I was trying to get the keys.

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It's like, ok, this is time, it's time to get this door opening for me to get out of here. That's what it's time for George Jackson joined Spain near the entrance of the AC. I think the thing I remember most is George, you know, I, I

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wanted to know if he was all right, you know, are you all right? You know, and he said, yeah, come man, I'm, I'm fine, I'm fine. I got it. I got it both have a small bottle of what they believed were explosives. He's got the gun

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in his hand and you know, he announces to his to his um comrades. It's me, they want, it's me, they want. So he burst out the door with the gun in his hand and um starts running across the yard towards one of the walls as Jackson

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and Spain ran out of the adjustment center shots were fired in their direction. Jackson was struck in the ankle and he stumbled and tried to continue, did continue. Um And then I didn't actually see him get hit with the second shot at the moment of impact.

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Um I did see him as he stumbled forward after being shot the second time and when he stumbled forward, he was dead, an officer laying on the north block gun rail, aimed his 30 30 Winchester rifle at Jackson and fired the fatal shot. And the nature

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of that second bullet was uh devastating because it entered his back, lower back as he bent over, leaning forward. That bullet coming at an angle, hit the bone and shot straight up and exited his, his skull killing him immediately, not far from Jackson's body. Johnny Spain

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was apprehended in bushes next to the chapel. The smuggled bottle, each man carried contained nothing more than water and hydrochloric acid, but the dragon had come. Yeah, it was a lot of frustration, pent up hate, you know, and, and, and finally they busting doors open, you

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know, it's, it's gonna come out. Who did you see doing the beating and the killing uh, convicts? I got no names for you. I'm not gonna give any names. Uh I'm not gonna get any but busted. I think uh what happened was gonna happen anyway, just

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that time next on day of the gun brutality in the bloody Adjustment Center will not end. We now return to Kron four presents a of the gun. This program contains graphic pictures and descriptions of violent events. Viewer discretion is advised if I leave here alive, I'll

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leave nothing behind. They'll never count me among the broken men. The body of George Jackson suggested finality but the adjustment center remained in turmoil. Ellen Mancino was in a fight for his life. According to Mancino, it was racial black against white. So I was in kind

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of like the corner four or five of them ran at me and we started fighting. We fought, I mean, it was like when you're fighting for your life, it's like you, uh you don't even get tired. It's just like it's pure adrenaline, you know, I was

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fighting and uh someone said they're coming or something like that, you know, man's coming. They're coming. Heavily armed prison guards entered the Adjustment center. Lieutenant Richard Nelson fired warning shots from his 45 caliber machine gun. There's some interchange uh between the inmates and us from the

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inmates side that they have hostages and they're gonna kill them. And uh from our side was, well, you release your hostages were coming after you were gonna kill all of them. They had a 45 caliber machine gun and they were just shooting up everything. You know,

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we were all hitting the floor and stuff. They only come forward your hands in the air and I did that. They snatched me and they ripped all the clothes off me. They were beating me right there. They had like a little gauntlet. They had shotguns and

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rifles and all kind of stuff and they was just beating everybody that came out. Bam, just beating the one of them pinned my head against a wall with a shotgun girl. He was screaming. Some of them were crying. They were really upset because they found the

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bodies of the guards on the other side. And it was, you know, there was a lot of emotions going on. Officer Charles Breckenridge was able to untie himself. Then Urbano Rubio, both men were bloody, badly wounded with numerous cuts around their necks, but they were alive.

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They drugged me outside and Ruby attacked me right when we got outside the ac door, uh, got punched in the face and he was on me and some other guards separated and pulled him off me and he was screaming, give me a gun, give me a

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gun. And, uh, he was hysterical. They had to restrain him. He wanted to, uh, jump on any inmate he could find. And in fact, they had to handcuff him to remove him from the scene on the grassy area outside the ac the inmates were naked, shackled,

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held at gunpoint man. We was called everything but the son of God, they were walking among us at that time, kicking clubbing, putting cigarettes out in the neck. Alan Mancino was next to Johnny Spain. Spain heard guards threatening to shoot the inmates. Then I hear this

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round go off. Oh yeah. And I turn over and I hear Alan and I turn and look at him and like there's blood everywhere, you know, there was blood on me at that point, you know his blood, he was hog tied on the ground. A man

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came over and shot him, calling him a *** lover and shot him. They shot me. You know, I opened up and, uh, I don't know, I don't know if it was a shotgun or what it was, but I got hit about eight times. I got holes

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all over me. So if they shot him, I just say damn if they didn't shot him, I know we're getting ready to die. They're refusing to give him any medical attention. They're refusing even to move him. A couple of black guards came over there and the

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other white officers pulled guns on them and made them get out the way and get away from there. I was there about 10, 15 minutes and I was picked up carried by the chains, not by my body and slammed face down on the steel table which

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broke my nose. I was bleeding. Not long after the guards had taken control of the ac Lieutenant Richard Nelson, walked over to the body of George Jackson. Nelson felt nothing but anger, dirty, dirty, rotten dog. Just, uh, too bad he isn't alive so he could suffer

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and suffer and suffer. I didn't know if he was trying to commit suicide or I never, I, I never really know. I, you know, I don't know. You know what I mean? I just, like I say, because that day when I looked at him and looked

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at his face, he just looked like somebody I didn't know anymore and he just, he just looked like, you know what the hell or something. I don't know. There is a general lock up throughout the institution. Prisoners have been fed in their cells tomorrow. There will

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be no visitors at San Quentin. The institution is described as quiet but tense. The six people killed in this riot make it the worst incident of this kind in the modern history of San Quentin prison. Most agree the incident was over in less than 30 minutes.

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It was very much like a like a war. I mean people, they could smell it, they could hear it uh outside, it was an earth shattering, you know, uh day and it was a terrible day. Six officers had been taken hostage. Three were murdered. Their bodies

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found in George Jackson's cell sergeant, Jerry Graham had multiple stab wounds and was shot in the head. Officer Frank de Leon was slashed, strangled, also shot in the head. Officer Paul Krass received four deep cuts through his throat and was strangled to death. The two white

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inmates, Ronald Cain and John Lynn suffered fatal wounds to the neck area. The three guards who survived were rushed to a hospital in Marin County for treatment. They were all star boons or slicing wounds on the neck. Uh mccray has one on either side. Rubio has

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a long cut on his neck and several minor ones at various places on his neck. And Breckenridge is the one who's in surgery. Now, he's in critical condition. As for associate Warden James Park, though he tried to remain composed. There were moments when he could not

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hide his emotions. I think our recent assaults on officers stemmed largely from this irresponsible kind of blithering about the revolution and kill the pig and this kind of crap. I was angry. I wouldn't have maybe used such intemperate terms, but they were bulls just like the

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tiger cages in South Vietnam, not realizing that there's a world out there in which people live or die and they are killed uh for ideas. It was Park who delivered the terrible news to the families of officers, Paul Krass and Frank De Leon. Vivian de Leon.

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Now the widowed mother of five Children was the first to be informed. I went there with a uniformed officer and soon she saw us, she knew what it was and she started screaming and she just really went into a hysterical situation and was really unmanageable. We've

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got her to sit down and uh tried to find somebody, some woman to come be with her and find one of the, one of the neighbor women came in to help, uh, calm her down park, then went to the home of Francis Krass. Well, I think

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she handled it very quietly. Uh, she had her girls kneel and she gave them soda crackers as though they were communion wafers. And I think she, she, uh, she drew on her Catholic resources and I think that uh that sustained her very much. They don't tell

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me anything. They didn't even tell me he was dead. I found that out on the radio. The Reverend Cecil Williams of San Francisco's Glide Memorial Church was a friend of George Jackson's family. Williams accompanied Jackson's mother, Georgia to an Oakland funeral home where they viewed her

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son's body. I raised my Children to love people. I raised them to mingle in American society, but American society didn't want them. She hurt deeply, very deeply. It was like, you know, um she lost George even before he was killed. They couldn't let him live, wasn't,

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wouldn't be anywhere possible for them to let him live. He's a black man and she cried and she talked to George's dead body. And uh she said, you know, I'm gonna do everything I can to make sure that you did not die in vain uh that

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you uh did mean something to, to me, your mother and to, to the community after that, after August 21st, the prison movement lost, lost its glamour, it lost its focal motor as George would put it, you know, it lost its, its focus. It's a superstar, but

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it also lost it's idealism and it's romance because this, there was nothing idealistic or romantic about this. This was just plain murder and brutality and it was misguided. I mean, the motivation may have been good. I want to get out, I want to lead the revolution.

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I want to free my people. I want this is for the greater good. But it turned out to be just a blood bath in which a lot of people were hurt. Coming up on day of the gun. After the death of George Jackson, violence breaks out

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in the streets of the Bay area. We now return to Kron four presents Day of the gun. Viewer discretion is advised I'm a very simple person at heart. Perfect love, perfect hate. That's the insides of me. The days following August 21st were filled with more outrage,

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bloodshed and overwhelming sadness. The funerals for the San Quentin Guards were attended by hundreds of law enforcement officials as well as family and friends. It was a painful and bewildering time for everyone. I didn't think mom was gonna be able to uh hold up, to be

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honest, it was, it was very hard on her. Very difficult. I think we were all in a state of, of shock. We couldn't cry, we couldn't we were almost zombie like and then as the days went on and we learned of how it happened. Uh You

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know, it was like, oh my God, it's still in all of our hearts. It's a wound that has never been healed. The family of Paul Krass said their last goodbyes at Mount Olivet Cemetery in San Rafael. Not far away. Protesters gathered outside the gates of San

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Quentin. Hundreds demonstrated against what they believed was an ongoing reign of terror inside the prison. There are 26 people locked up and they are all hurt and they will not give them medical attention, racist physical beatings by prison guards with blackjacks clubs and guns and Willie

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Brown was a state assemblyman at that time, I would encourage you not to get any of us killed, including yourself. We went out there uh for the express purpose of trying to make sure that the system didn't come unravel and people began to needlessly lose their

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lives. The atmosphere was tense, suspicious. We couldn't even bury our dead. These people were out there protesting getting us away from the funerals, returning to the prison, putting on our riot gear and protecting the prison. San Quentin officials were concerned about the potential for violence. We

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had a number of officers with shotguns in a garage near the gate and that was the first line of defense because the second line of defense was submachine guns up closer to the wall and if these kids that actually broke through, it would have been a

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tragedy. We got some of the damnest people you ever seen in your life working in Corrections. And according to Willie Brown, it was Ray Per director of the California Department of Correction who allowed leaders from the black community to go inside San Quentin and inspect it.

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What we found frankly was what Peer and his people had said that. Yes, there was a lockdown. Yes, there had been, you know, incidents but no, there was not this reign of terror, but the anger could not be contained under heavy security. On the morning of

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August 26 the soledad brothers were driven to the courthouse in San Francisco. The courtroom in San Francisco was tight. Authorities feel violence has a way of following the solid brother. The hearing for John Cloer and Fleta Drum go became bitter and erupted into a bloody fight

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as Bailiffs tried to remove Cloche's mother for creating a disturbance. A scuffle broke out when two black men interceded on her behalf. Members of San Francisco's tactical squad rushed into the courtroom to restore order. The authorities cleared the courtroom called an hour's recess and began reinforcing

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security. And this is Tom Snyder. Two days later on the morning of August 28 bombs went off at state buildings in San Mateo, Sacramento and San Francisco's ferry building which housed satellite offices of the California prison system. No one was injured. A member of the terrorist

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group. The weatherman claimed responsibility for one of the explosions. A note sent to a local newspaper called the bombings, an outraged response to the assassination of George Jackson the 28th was also the day of Jackson's funeral. First American justice murder. The service for George Jackson was

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a full blown revolutionary memorial conducted by the Black Panthers. Jackson was a field marshal in the party. The funeral was conducted at the ST Augustine Episcopal Church in Oakland. The same church which held services for his brother Jonathan. Approximately 2000 people came to pay their respects

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to the soledad. Always, you couldn't know Panther leaders, Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton delivered eulogies and we raise our Children to be like George Jackson to live like George Jackson and to fight for freedom is George Jackson fought for freedom. The Jackson family sat in

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the front row, tears running down the face of Lester George's father. I wish I could give all I'm long in the but I wish I George Jackson's funeral was the prelude to yet another death. The next night at around 9 30 PM, gunmen entered San Francisco's

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ingleside police station. A 12 gauge shotgun was fired hitting Sergeant John Young in the chest killing him. A letter was sent to local papers declaring the ingleside attack, revolutionary violence for comrade Jackson's political assassination. Next on day of the gun, six inmates go on trial for

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murder. We now return to Kron Four presents Day of the gun. Viewer discretion is advised I know they will not be satisfied until they've pushed me out of this existence altogether. The overwhelming anger and sadness which occupied the days following August 21st now turned to endless

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questions, accusations and conspiracy theories. Many were convinced George Jackson had been murdered. George Jackson, Fi Marcia for the Black Panther Party. A soldier in the People's Army gave his life in an attempt to free political prisoners. Warden Lewis S Nelson and associate warden James W L

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Park through their agents did on August 21st, 1971 killed one George Jackson. I believe they killed him and threw him in the yard. Richard Nelson has always dismissed the notion that there was a prison or guard conspiracy to kill George Jackson at San Quentin. Well, it's

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preposterous. It, it really is. There's um nobody, nobody would even consider that or think of it because it, it's futile. There's no way you could get it done without getting a death sentence yourself. We are satisfied now that it was brought in underneath a wig. And

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since we found the wig this morning, there was also the story of the wig. It is an honest to God bona fide wig, prison, authorities believed that Jackson was wearing this Afro wig under which the gun was hidden. The San Francisco Chronicle conducted a reenactment attempts

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to hide the gun failed. And when the model walked the gun wobbled dangerously. The distance Jackson had to walk from the visiting area to the adjustment center was approximately 50 yards. So, you know, they make you, they make us all through our all up on the,

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you screwed them all up. And it just sounded strange to me that you, you understand what I'm saying, how in the hell would he have a gun getting back to ac and, and especially with the way they treated us? There was also the appearance of the

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so called pants pocket letter. The letter was an exchange between George Jackson and his friend, ex convict James Carr outlining preparations for Jackson's prison breakout. The letter raised more questions. Did the two men plan an escape for August 21st? Or would Jackson make an attempt two

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days later at the opening of the Soledad Brothers trial? I don't believe that he had any intention of producing the gun in the prison. The only thing that makes sense would have been for him to have produced the gun in court. And when Jackson left the

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visiting room, was he properly searched by guards before returning to the adjustment center? So I don't know whether we'll ever know what really happened on that day. It was a, it was a moment of horror as for the gun state, investigators discovered that the nine millimeter

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astro automatic used by Jackson was purchased at an El Cerrito gun shop two years earlier by a member of the Black Panthers. How Jackson obtained the gun was a mystery. Was it smuggled into the prison by a friend, a guard or his attorney Steven Bingham? That

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there is no way Jackson could have obtained the death gun except during his visit with attorney Stephen Bigham just before the killings started. Prison officials and Marin County authorities believed the gun used by George Jackson was passed to him by Stephen Bingham. According to Bingham, after

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leaving San Quentin, he spent the rest of the day with family and in meetings when he learned the news from friends later that evening, Bingham was shocked, it was clearly horrible. Um The whole thing, I mean, it was just um that that many people have been

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killed. Bingham was also terrified, filled with fear. That's my state of mind. And the next step to feeling framed is um I could be killed. Stephen Bingham fled the country became a fugitive from justice and went into hiding in Europe. Bingham and six inmates from San

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Quentin's Adjustment Center would be charged with murder and conspiracy. Because of our unsuccessful efforts. The state's unsuccessful efforts to locate Mr Bingham within California. He will be now sought by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in March of 1972 Soledad brothers, John Cloche and Fleta Drum Go

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were acquitted by an all white jury for the death of guard John Mills in a Santa Clara County courtroom in June of the same year, Angela Davis was found not guilty of the charges of murder, kidnapping and conspiracy. Davis denied the prosecution's allegations that she engaged

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in plotting and arming the kidnap attempt and subsequent shooting led by Jonathan Jackson. Davis called her acquittal the happiest day of her life. Three years later in July of 1975 at the Moran County Hall of Justice. Opening arguments were presented in the trial for the six

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inmates charged with murder and assault. In the George Jackson incident. The accused were Johnny Spain Hugo, Pannell, Fleta Drum go Willie Tate David Johnson, Louise Tees. They became known as the San Quentin six security for their trial was extremely tight. The courtroom had a bulletproof partition

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and some of the defendants were in chains shackled to their chairs. There was also a visit by the jury to the scene of the crime. The courtroom came to the prison today. Judge jurors, defendants, attorneys, everyone Mano was among those called to testify. The prosecutor questioned

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Mancino about the statement he signed days after the deadly riot. He says, is this statement true? I said, no, it's not. I said that was a prepared statement. I got tired of beating and beat. I said you got the wrong guys and I didn't just do

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it to screw the state. Some of them guys were innocent. I mean straight up innocent, they didn't do nothing and they were scared as anybody else in there. You know, can you say who that was no, I can't. The parade of witnesses included the surviving guards,

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Kenneth mccray, Urbano Rubio and Charles Breckenridge. Each man offered damaging testimony. Defense attorneys said they lied. The trial lasted almost a year in August of 1976. The jury reached its verdict. Johnny Spain was the only defendant convicted of murder, found guilty in the killings of guards.

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Frank De Leon and Jerry Graham Spain, who was also a Black Panther and had run from the Adjustment Center with George Jackson did not testify on his own behalf. Spain received two life sentences. Hugo Pannell was found guilty of assaulting two guards, Urbano Rubio and Charles

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Breckenridge. David Johnson was found guilty of assault. He was released from prison because of time already served Willie Tate Louis Tees and Fleta Drum were acquitted. The controversial and complicated criminal trial of the San Quentin six was the longest in California history. It was also the

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most expensive to prosecute the state had spent over $2 million coming up on day of the gun revenge in the years after we now return to Kron four presents Day of the gun. Viewer discretion is advised I have never really lived in the years after the

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killing of the three black inmates at Soledad Prison. The trail of blood and revenge led to the deaths of at least a dozen others inside prison and beyond Drum who was released from jail in 1976 was shot dead in the streets of Oakland. Three years later,

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police call the killing a Gangland style execution attorney, Face Dender, the true believer who fought for George Jackson's freedom and made him a celeb became another victim in May of 1979. When a member of the black guerilla family invaded her home armed with a gun on

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the forced entry into the household. The gunman asked for face Tennder by name has her sign a document saying that she betrayed George Jackson. I betrayed George Jackson has her sign it. And then after she signs it, he shoots her full of holes with a handgun

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and miraculously, she doesn't die in January of 1980. Face deer's assailant ex convict, Edward Brooks was convicted of attempted murder and robbery and sentenced to 17 years. Brooks was later stabbed to death at Folsom prison. Not long after the trial, Stender traveled to Hong Kong where

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she lived alone in the spring of 1980 paralyzed and in constant pain. She committed suicide by a drug overdose. Face Dender was 48 years old. Stephen Bingham returned to America in 1984 to reclaim his life. Ready to stand trial. Very confident that a jury is going

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to a trial began in April of 1986 at the Moran County courthouse. He denied the allegations against him. By summer, the jury had reached its verdict was found not guilty of three counts of murder and conspiracy. It's relief. It's just joy and relief. I'm vindicated. But

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on another level, you never really vindicate. At the age of 44 Bingham resumed the practice of law and at present is an attorney for a San Francisco Legal Aid Center. A handful of supporters were on hand to greet Johnny Spain when he left the state prison

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at Vacaville in March of 1988 Johnny Spain regained his freedom when he was released from prison. Spain's conviction for murder as one of the San Quentin six was overturned by a federal judge. Today. Spain is a consultant for criminal justice issues and teaches civics at an

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alternative high school in San Francisco. Angela Davis is a professor of the History of Consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz Davis is also involved in the prison abolition movement. Officers Kenneth mccray and Charles Breckenridge resigned from San Quentin not long after their ordeal

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and eventually departed California. Officer Urbano Rubio remained with the Department of Corrections and after a brief time, also resigned. Soledad. Brother John Cloche is an inmate at the California State prison in Lancaster incarcerated since 1980. Cliche is serving a life sentence for a drug related murder.

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56 year old Alan Mancino is serving time for armed robbery at the Louisiana State penitentiary in Angola Menino's projected release date of 2007 is a reminder that his years behind bars have been filled with so many forgotten days and nights, but the memory of that terrible

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day in August over 30 years ago will remain with him forever. You don't constantly think about it every day. But when you lay down on your rack at night and you close your eyes and you get to thinking we're so and so one thing reminds you

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of another and there it is you think about it and I'm sure every man that was in there that day thinking about it, every one of them know what happened, whether it was on the receiving end or the giving end. To what extent did George Jackson

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contribute to his own demise? Had a $70 robbery wasted his life. Had years of abuse between capture and captive raged like a sickness leading to a final exchange of hatred placed in the context of four centuries of racial injustice was August 21st, 1971. A revolt murder

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or one more horrifying symbol of America's historic inability to address the burdens of race on both sides of a prison wall. The story of George Jackson is a story of the dark side of America. Uncomfortable. Tragic when American blood in black and white devoured all reason.

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It remains a story in search of peace. George Jackson is buried near his brother Jonathan in a cemetery in Mount Vernon, Illinois.