Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Mumia Abu-Jamal

•  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook on April 24, 1954) is an American convicted murderer, sentenced to death for the December 9, 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. He has been described as "perhaps the best known Death-Row prisoner in the world", and his sentence is one of the most debated today. Before his arrest he was a member of the Black Panther Party, an activist, part-time cab driver, journalist, radio personality, news commentator and broadcaster.

  

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•  Scopes Trial

  The Scopes Trial—formally known as Scopes v. State, 152 Tenn. 424, 278 S.W. 57 (Tenn. 1925), Scopes vs. The State of Tennessee and informally known as the Scopes Monkey Trial—was an American legal case that tested the Butler Act which made it unlawful "to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals" in any Tennessee state-funded school and university.

  

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•  Sacco and Vanzetti

  Ferdinando Nicola Sacco (April 22, 1891-August 23, 1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (June 11, 1888-August 23, 1927) were Italian immigrants who were accused and convicted of murdering two men during a 1920 armed robbery in Massachusetts. After a controversial trial and a series of appeals, the men were executed on August 23, 1927.

  

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•  Live from Death Row

  Live from Death Row, published in May 1995, is a collection of memoirs by American death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal.

  

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•  Chicago Seven

  The Chicago Seven (also Conspiracy Seven, originally Eight) were seven defendants—Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, and Lee Weiner—charged with conspiracy, inciting to riot, and other charges related to protests that took place in Chicago, Illinois on the occasion of the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Bobby Seale, the eighth man charged, had his trial severed during the proceedings, lowering the number from eight to seven.

  

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•  Albert F. Sabo

  Albert F. Sabo (December 21, 1920–May 8, 2002) was an American lawyer and judge of the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas. He is best known for presiding over the 1982 murder trial of Mumia Abu-Jamal. Sabo served as a judge from 1974 until his retirement in 1998. For 15 years while on the bench, Sabo exclusively heard homicide cases.

  

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•  Daniel Faulkner

  Daniel J. Faulkner (December 21, 1955 – December 9, 1981) was a police officer in the American city of Philadelphia who was shot and killed in the line of duty by Mumia Abu-Jamal, who has been convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. Faulkner's murder was the culmination of a traffic stop in downtown Philadelphia, not initially involving Abu-Jamal, which escalated into an exchange of gunfire in which Abu-Jamal was himself shot and wounded by officer Faulkner.

  

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•  Partisan Defense Committee

  The Partisan Defense Committee describes itself as a "a class-struggle, non-sectarian legal and social defense organization that champions cases and causes in the interests of the whole of the working people. " The PDC works in accordance with the political orientation of the Spartacist League. The committee organizes demonstrations and performs legal work in defense of "class struggle" prisoners. Its longest standing campaign has been in defense of Mumia Abu-Jamal.

  

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•  Leonard Weinglass

  Leonard I. Weinglass is a U.S. lawyer and civil rights activist. Weinglass graduated from Yale Law School in 1958. He served as a Captain, Judge Advocate, United States Air Force from 1959 to 1961. He was admitted to the bar in the states of New Jersey, New York and Connecticut. He taught criminal trial advocacy at the University of Southern California Law School from 1974 to 1976, and at the People's College of Law, in Los Angeles, California from 1974 to 1975.

  

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•  Arnold Beverly

  Arnold Beverly was a figure in the legal appeals following the 1982 trial of Mumia Abu-Jamal for the murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. In 1999, Beverly swore to and signed an affidavit stating that while acting as a mob hitman hired by corrupt Philadelphia police officers, he, not Abu-Jamal, killed officer Faulkner.

  

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•  Blues dance

  Blues dancing is a modern term used to describe a family of historical dances that developed alongside and were danced to blues music, or the contemporary dances that are danced in that aesthetic. Amateur Dancer carried an article titled "Blues and Rhythm and Blues Dancing" in a July/August 1991 issue. Mura Dehn used the term The Blues in The Spirit Moves, Part 1, as the sub section title of Chapter II, referencing different dance styles.

  

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•  John F. "Jack" Hasey

  John Freeman "Jack" Hasey (3 November 1916 – May 9, 2005) was an American captain in the French Foreign Legion during World War II and a senior operations officer with the CIA afterwards. Hasey was one of only four Americans, including Dwight D. Eisenhower, to have been named a Companion of the Ordre de la Libération, France's highest World War II honor.

  

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•  Transmitter Losice

  Transmitter Losice is a facility for FM- and TV-transmission at Losice, Poland at 52°11′15″N 22°47′05″E / 52.1875°N 22.78472°E / 52.1875; 22.78472. It uses as antenna tower a 297 metre high guyed mast.

  

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•  Plymouth Naval Base Museum

  Plymouth Naval Base Museum is a maritime museum in Plymouth, Devon. It is under development at HMNB Devonport, one of the three main bases of the Royal Navy, and its mission statement is "To present the story of support to the Royal Navy at Plymouth since the days of Edward I. " It is housed in a number of historic buildings within the South Yard of the Royal Dockyard site and is open to the public by appointment.

  

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•  Dagyolu

  

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