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Jonathan Peter Jackson , initiated the armed kidnapping of Superior Court judge Harold Haley, prosecutor Gary Thomas, and three jurors from a courtroom in Marin County, California, in August 1970, when he was 17. Fleeing with the hostages, Jackson demanded the Soledad Brothers' release from prison. Black activists for prisoner rights and for civil rights, the three Soledad Brothers, none in the courtroom that day, included Jackson's elder brother George Jackson.

In the ensuing shootout, Jackson and Judge Haley were among four killed, the others being two inmates who, already in the courtroom, had promptly aided Jackson, and prosecutor Thomas was paralyzed and a juror was seriously injured. Since the guns that Jackson used were registered to political activist Angela Davis, who had formed a committee supporting the Soledad Brothers, Davis was implicated and stood trial for alleged involvement in the kidnapping. She was acquitted.

✵ 1953 – 7. August 1970

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“All the objective conditions are present here in the Black Colony for revolution.”

Jonathan P. Jackson

Source: From Blood in My Eye (1971), p. 24

“We are quite obviously faced with a need to organize some small defenses to the more flagrant abuses of the system now…. While we await the precise moment when all of capitalism's victims will indignantly rise to destroy the system, we are being devoured…. Some of us are going to have to take our courage in hand and build a hard revolutionary cadre for selective retaliatory violence.”

Jonathan P. Jackson

Source: From Blood in My Eye (1971), pp. 11-12

“Comrade, Repression exposes. By drawing violence from the beast, the vanguard party is demonstrating for the world to examine just exactly what terms their rule is predicated on— their power to organize violence, our acquiescence.”

Jonathan P. Jackson

Source: From Blood in My Eye (1971), p. 23

“Most of the fascist functionaries live as unguarded as I do. I could slip a knife between Max Rafferty's ribs. The Agnews and Du Ponts, the Rockefellers and Morgans, all of the Getty, Hunt, and Hughes types who sneak around in armored cars and jets are just as reachable. Anyone who will come out of his bomb shelter can be had. Imagine what Nixon's armored car would look like if I stepped out of the alley and hit it with the anti-tank rocket launcher under my coat—a ball of fire. Hell will be their reward.”

Jonathan P. Jackson

Source: From Blood in My Eye (1971), p. 46

“There should, I feel, be one branch that is purely political, operating the rent strikes, the breakfast programs, the People's Bazaar's where all sorts of food are sold, hospitals or clinics (free, of course), and what I will term cottage shops to employ those who will work for the new medium of exchange—love and loyalty.”

Jonathan P. Jackson

Source: From Blood in My Eye (1971), p. 20

“We are quite obviously faced with a need to organize some small defenses to the more flagrant abuses of the system now.”

Jonathan P. Jackson

... While we await the precise moment when all of capitalism's victims will indignantly rise to destroy the system, we are being devoured. ... Some of us are going to have to take our courage in hand and build a hard revolutionary cadre for selective retaliatory violence.
Source: From Blood in My Eye (1971), pp. 11-12

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