CRIMINAL, REVOLUTIONARY, MURDERER, ICON? ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF GEORGE JACKSON’S DEATH, THE ANSWER DEPENDS ON WHO YOU ASK. BY KEVIN D. SAWYER
22 WALL CITY FALL 2021
ifty years ago, George Jackson, 28, was fatally wounded by a guard at San Quentin State Prison. Today his name, and the story of how he and five others were killed in a single day of violence, continues to reverberate in unsettled opinions throughout the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) and beyond. No matter whose story is told, August 21, 1971, the day Jackson was killed, is still the CDCR and San Quentin’s bloodiest day. His death at the 169-year-old prison
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