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The grim news made international headlines: On August 21, 1971, prison authorities discovered a gun on famed "Soledad Brother" author, activist, and San Quentin inmate George Jackson. A shootout ensued, killing Jackson, two other inmates, and three guards, and wounding three more correction officers. Authorities asserted that only lawyer Stephen Bingham could have smuggled the weapon into the prison. Fearing that a conviction for abetting the guards’ deaths would lead to his own murder, the attorney fled, beginning a long, strange odyssey of pseudonymous exile. Strange indeed for the Yale-graduate scion of politically prominent New England elites. Told largely in Bingham’s own words half a century later, Catherine Masud’s documentary is both an absorbing flashback to a heyday of Bay Area radical activism, and an indictment of officials willing to frame an innocent party in order to quickly close the books on a high-profile case. (Mill Valley Film Festival)
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