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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">The 55th Anniversary of the August 7th Marin County Courthouse Rebellion</h1>
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<p><span><img width="394" height="263" src="https://freedomarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/fd591f10ec01e483310dd67fd103a0b3.jpg" alt="Picture of Marin County Courthouse Rebellion" style="margin-right: 0px;"></span></p><p>On
August 7, 1970 \u2013 50 years ago \u2013 Jonathan Peter Jackson the 17-year old
brother of George Jackson, brought 3 guns into the Marin County Hall of
Justice, where Judge Haley was presiding over the trial of San Quentin
prisoner James McClain. He drew weapons from his satchel, and with the
assistance of McClain and 2 prisoners who were witnesses for McClain,
Ruchell Magee and William A. Christmas, took Judge Haley, Deputy
District Attorney Gary Thomas and 3 female jurors hostage. Upon exiting
the courthouse, Jackson and the other kidnappers attempted to flee with
the hostages in tow. Police and prison guards opened fire on the van
Jackson was driving. At the end of the shootout, Jackson, Haley, McClain
and Christmas were dead and McGee and Thomas were seriously injured.
The kidnapping was meant as a tool to negotiate the freedom of the
Soledad Brothers, 3 Black prisoners (George Jackson, Fleeta Drumgo, and
John Clutchette) who were charged with the murder of a prison guard at
Soledad Prison in California.</p>
<p>This moment, like so many others, represents one of the influential
Black Liberation Movement events and asks us to further study historic
strugglers \u2013 Angela Davis, George and Jonathan Jackson, The Soledad
Brothers, The San Quentin Six, Ruchell Magee, and organizations like the
Black Panther Party. Our lessons must include prison resistance,
political prisoners, state violence, and insurgency.</p>
<p>Below we have compiled audio, video, and paper documents from a
diversity of primary resources (most taken from the Freedom Archives but
also from other online sources) illuminating the historical context and
lasting significance of extrajudicial struggle.</p>
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<p>Excerpt Taken from Black Journal \u2013 Episode 32: Justice? (Originally
Aired April 26, 1971) \u2013 a production of NET Division, Educational
Broadcasting Corporation.</p>
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<p><strong>Audio Clips taken from <a href="https://freedomarchives.bandcamp.com/album/prisons-on-fire-george-jackson-attica-black-liberation" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Prisons On Fire</a> (2001) \u2013 produced by the Freedom Archives <a href="https://freedomarchives.org/projects/the-50th-anniversary-of-the-august-7th-marin-county-courthouse-rebellion/">HERE</a></strong></p><center><strong><img src="https://freedomarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Aug7_MaterialsGrid_080520update-HiRes-scaled.jpg" alt="" style="margin-right: 0px;" width="152" height="394"></strong></center><center></center><p>
<strong>1. </strong>\u201c<a href="http://www.freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC510_scans/SQ_Six/510.webofdeathandstruggle_sq6.1972.pd" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Web of Death & Struggle: The Genesis of California\u2019s Political Trials</a>,\u201d San Quentin Six Collection.</p>
<p><strong>2. </strong>\u201cFallen Comrades,\u201d in <em>The Black Panther Black Community News Service</em>, Vol. 1-2, 1991. <a href="https://freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC513_scans/BPP_Paper/513.BPP.ICN.Summer1991.FallenComrades.Excerpt.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Excerpt from periodical</a>. Black Panther Party News Service Collection.</p>
<p><strong>3. </strong>\u201cGeorgia Jackson Remembers,\u201d in <a href="https://freedomarchives.org/Documents/Pubs/Scanlans.web.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Scanlan\u2019s Suppressed Issue: Guerilla War in the USA</em></a>, January 1971. Article in periodical. North American Social Movement Organizations Collection.</p>
<p><strong>4. </strong>\u201c<a href="http://www.freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC510_scans/Control_Units_AFSC/510.black.cat.collective.black.august.1995.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Black August: George and Jonathan Jackson (A Commemoration)</a>\u201d Black Cat Collective, 1995. Speech transcript in Black August Resistance Collection.</p>
<p><strong>5. </strong><a href="https://freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC511_scans/511.RuchellMagee.Periodical.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>By Any Means Necessary</em></a>. Periodical in the Ruchell Magee Collection.</p>
<p><strong>6. </strong><a href="http://freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC513_scans/BPP_Paper/513.BPP.ICN.V5.N7.Aug.15.1970.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>The Black Panther Black Community News Service, </em>Vol. 5-7</a>, August 15, 1970. Periodical in Black Panther Party News Service Collection.</p>
<p><strong>7. </strong>\u201cAugust 7, 1970: Marin County Courthouse,\u201c in <em>From Soledad to San Quentin</em>. Excerpt from non-digitized monograph. San Quentin Six Collection.</p>
<p><strong>8. </strong><a href="http://freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC513_scans/Safiya_Bukhari/513.Safiya.lest.we.forget.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Lest We Forget </em></a>by Safiya A. Bukhari. Poetry booklet in Safiya Bukhari Collection.</p>
<p><strong>9. </strong>\u201cIn Memoriam of Comrade-Brother Jonathan Jackson, Born in this month, 26 years ago,\u201d Excerpt from <a href="http://www.freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC510_scans/New_Afrikan_Prisoners/510.TheFUseBuildCampaigntoDismissPontiac31Indictments.periodical.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>The Fuse, </em> No. 12</a>. October 12, 1979. New Afrikan Prisoners Organization Collection.</p>
<p><strong>10. </strong><a href="http://www.freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC516_scans/516.NI.076.8.9.1975.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Excerpts from KPFA program, \u201cNothing is More Precious Than\u2026\u201d</a> including poem by Lincoln Bergman (page 18 & 23). August 9, 1975.</p>
<p><strong>11. </strong>\u201c<a href="http://freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC513_scans/George_Jackson/513.George.Jackson.George.Jackson.Jonathon.Jackson.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Fascism: Its Most Advanced Form is Here in Amerikka</a>,\u201d Flyer in the George Jackson Collection.</p>
<p><strong>12. </strong> Stills from <a href="https://vimeo.com/100361380" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">George Jackson / San Quentin</a> video.</p>
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