No Struggle No Progress: Ruchell Magee Speaks: Ruchell Cinque Magee Speaks: A Critical Interview on the Marin Court House Shoot-Out - Paperback

by Ruchell Cinque Magee (Author), Gwendolyn Debra Kennedy (Editor), Gwendolyn Kennedy (Author)

he Marin County courthouse incident was an event which occurred on August 7, 1970, when 17-year-old Jonathan Jackson attempted to negotiate the freedom of the Soledad Brothers (which included his older brother George) by kidnapping Superior Court judge Harold Haley from the Marin County Civic Center in San Rafael, California. The resulting shootout left four men dead, including both Jackson and Judge Haley. Two others were wounded.The event received intense media coverage, as did the subsequent manhunt and trial of Angela Davis, an ousted assistant professor from UCLA who was involved with George Jackson, Jonathan Jackson, and the Black Panthers. Davis owned the weapons used in the kidnapping and murder.