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![25th Anniversary of the Murder of George Jackson](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 8/23/1996Call Number: JG/ 164Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Judy Gerber reads some published letters from George Jackson who spent 11 years in prison, 8.5 in solitary confinement, for being accused of stealing $70 from a gas station. Judy reads letters from Jackson’s book of published letters entitled Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson. A year after publishing the book he was murdered in San Quentin Prison by a guard in a security tower. Judy reads 7 letters dated between September 1965 and April of 1970. These letters are sent to George’s mother, brothers, and finally his lawyer. These letters are read in memory of George Jackson and in light of the fact that it had been 25 years since his murder in prison.
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