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"and All Political Prisoners."
She insisted on "All Political Prisoners."
Free Angela and All Political Prisoners.
We had connections and people
and the churches, we were able to go
and say, "Will you support a resolution
"for Angela Davis to be released on bail?"
And they might say yes or no,
but they'd say,
"Persuade us. Come in and talk to us."
It was actually Henry Winston,
who was National Chairman
of the Communist Party,
he said, "Campaign for bail. "
I went like, looking at him,
"What, are you nuts?
"No way we campaign for bail."
The President of the United States
made a public statement
in which he congratulates
the FBI on the capture
of the "dangerous terrorist,"
Angela Davis.
That's a quote. "Dangerous terrorist."
He was saying, "Campaign for bail."
We'd say, "Campaign for bail?"
President of the United States...
He says, "Campaign for bail."
That man was a genius.
He was a tactical genius,
because people would sign petitions for bail
who may have thought she was guilty,
but believed that she
was entitled to a fair trial.
Charlene Mitchell, who was the brain
behind the whole
National United Committee
to Free Angela Davis.
I didn't know the first thing about
organizing movements, but Charlene did.
All of our efforts and all of our energies
had to be focused
on getting her out of there.
Politically, I saw this case as a bellwether.
They are not going to kill her.
They're not going to imprison her,
we're going to free her.
We're gonna win her freedom.
I was in solitary confinement,
some distance from where
the majority of women were kept.
It was lonely, very lonely.
I read a lot. I wrote a lot.
I followed the examples
of other prisoners, such as George.
I was able to create
a certain sphere of freedom, you might say,
within the context of that confinement.
Well, I suppose as far as you're concerned,
it's no surprise
that you're in solitary confinement.
And I'm wondering what kind of
shock that has been to your sensibilities,
to your emotions?
But see, I understood
very well that the reason why
would not permit me to talk
to any other woman in that jail
was because they wanted to break me.
They wanted me to respond in that way.
They wanted me to feel
the burden of the solitude,
and I just had to make up my mind
that I was not going to
let it affect me that way.
I think that what George Jackson said about
life in prison is very appropriate here.
He says that prison either breaks
a person or makes the person stronger.
And I would like to think
that I have become stronger
during this experience.
My emotional relationship with George
became far more intense
when I was behind bars.
Part of that passion
consisted in
our being able to imagine ourselves
as comrades
helping to usher in a new world.
When she was in prison
and when George was in prison,
they had the opportunity to meet.
We met for a period of time,
we had discussions
and the type of things that you discuss
when you have a legal meeting.
And then Angela and George had met
separately to discuss things
that only the two of them wanted
to discuss with each other.
It was a meeting that was
really complicated and full of
all kinds of emotions and feelings.
She's been locked up.
And if she's had the opportunity
to do some hugging and kissing, right on.
That's my theory.
Those were the years
of the black revolution.
Everybody wanted to organize.
And your organization,
the first thing of it was, it was black.
Black teachers, black doctors,
black lawyers.
Black people who were professionals.
Black people who had done
everything that the system says,
they were, now.
I thought it was important strategically
for a black attorney to be the public face
of a political prisoner at trial.
We wanted to present to the world
the picture of African-American lawyers
performing at a very high level
on a worldwide stage.
And you have to understand the workings
that the system
is in control of the white people.
And white people don't take any risks
when it comes to black people.
So, I don't think that
you're gonna find a jury
who's going to have the courage
to do what's demanded of them.
I don't know of any other
cases in the last century
that presented that degree of difficulty.
Where the courthouse
itself was a crime scene,
and the judge, the prosecutor,
the jurors and witnesses were all victims.
A big issue at the beginning of the case
was whether or not
to sever the trials
of Angela Davis and Ruchell Magee.
So he is the surviving
prisoner from August 7th.
And he was being charged
with the same thing.
First degree murder,
first degree kidnapping
and conspiracy to commit both.
There were those who wanted me
to be disassociated with Ruchell
and felt that that was the best way
to assert my innocence.
I didn't want to disassociate myself.
Ruchell argued it was like a slave rebellion.
In a lot of ways, it probably was.
It was, kind of this last ditch effort,
some way to assert
some control over one's life.
We had a big debate because we said,
"Look, Angela wasn't even there.
"It's very prejudicial to her
to have him tried together with her.
"She never even met the man. "
On the other hand,
we didn't want to abandon Ruchell.
Miss Davis' attorneys asked the judge
to set her free on bail.
But Magee objected,
saying it would prejudice his own case.
Apparently, defendants Davis and Magee
are at odds on each other's
defense tactics.
so both defendants
were sent back to their cells
until a new judge is appointed.
That could take several weeks.
None of the judges in Marin County
were qualified,
because Judge Haley was their colleague.
So, the judicial council
then had to select a judge
to try the case.
Will you ever find a judge who can give
you a fair trial in your estimation?
Well, we certainly
have got to search for one.
We are sort of like Diogenes,
looking for the honest man.
We're looking for an honest judge.
The next judge who was assigned
And the first day he was on the bench,
we reached the conclusion that this is
the judge that should have this case.
'Cause he had an air about him
that he would be fair,
he would make an effort to be fair,
and that he would be in charge.
I think that, perhaps,
it would be much better to ask
somebody who has seen me
in the years I've been on the bench,
what kind of a judge I am.
Self-analysis has never been
very productive for anybody,
and I'm not going to do it now at this time.
that the murder and kidnap indictments
against Angela Davis be dismissed.
"Because she's completely
innocent of these charges
"and she's locked into a proceeding
that never gets started."
The judge, the sixth
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