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[[Angela Davis]] is a two-time Communist Party of the United States vice-presidential candidate.<ref>Davis ran behind [[Gus Hall]] in 1980 and 1984. Hall made two earlier efforts in 1972 and 1976. Former CIA director [[John Brennan]] admitted under lie detector that he had voted for Hall in 1976. When the Soviet Union collapsed, receipts for $2 million and $3 million were found in Soviet archives with Hall's signature, proving [[collusion]] and [[conspiracy]] between the Communist Party USA and Russia to interfere in American elections.</ref>
 
[[Angela Davis]] is a two-time Communist Party of the United States vice-presidential candidate.<ref>Davis ran behind [[Gus Hall]] in 1980 and 1984. Hall made two earlier efforts in 1972 and 1976. Former CIA director [[John Brennan]] admitted under lie detector that he had voted for Hall in 1976. When the Soviet Union collapsed, receipts for $2 million and $3 million were found in Soviet archives with Hall's signature, proving [[collusion]] and [[conspiracy]] between the Communist Party USA and Russia to interfere in American elections.</ref>
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In 1970, Marin County, California Judge Harold Haley’s head was blown off by a sawed-off shotgun owned by Ms. Davis, in a hostage incident in which members of the Black Panthers attempted to free Davis' lover, Black Panther member [[George Jackson]], who was imprisoned for armed robbery. Davis was acquitted.  
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In 1970, Marin Count Judge Harold Haley’s head was blown off by a sawed-off shotgun in a hostage incident in which members of the Black Panthers attempted to free Davis' lover, Black Panther member [[George Jackson]]. Jackson's younger brother took the judge, the prosecutor, and three female jurors as hostages and armed the defendants.<ref>{{cite book|last=Aptheker|first=Bettina|title=The Morning Breaks: The Trial of Angela Davis|year=1997|publisher=Cornell University Press}}</ref><ref name="Register-Guard">{{cite news|agency=Associated Press|title=Search broadens for Angela Davis|newspaper=Eugene Register-Guard|date=August 17, 1970|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4BkRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NuEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6482%2C3554926|accessdate=September 14, 2009}}</ref> Davis had purchased several of the firearms used in the attack,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/harvard-new-home-angela-davis-papers-180968191/|title=Angela Davis’ Archive Comes to Harvard|last1=Treviño|first1=Julissa|publisher=Smithsonian Magazine|date=16 February 2018|accessdate=7 February 2019}}</ref> including the shotgun used to shoot the judge.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/04/18/archives/a-shotgun-that-miss-davis-purchased-is-linked-to-the-fatal-shooting.html|title=A Shotgun That Miss Davis Purchased Is Linked to the Fatal Shooting of Judge|last1=Caldwell|first1=Earl|work=[[The New York Times]]|date= April 18, 1972|accessdate= February 7, 2019}}</ref> Davis was found to have been corresponded with one of the inmates involved.<ref>{{cite book|authors=White, Bay, Martain|title=Freedom on My Mind|publisher=Bedford/St. Martin's|isbn=978-0-312-64884-8|page=725}}</ref> California considers "all persons concerned in the commission of a crime, whether they directly commit the act constituting the offense... principals in any crime so committed", and a warrant for her arrest was issued. [[J. Edgar Hoover]] listed Davis on the [[FBI]]'s Ten Most Wanted Fugitive List; the third woman to ever  be listed,<ref name="Trial-1"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Biography|work=Davis (Angela) Legal Defense Collection, 1970–1972|url=http://digilib.nypl.org/dynaweb/ead/scm/scmdavisa|accessdate=June 14, 2013}}</ref> behind Ma Barker and [[Bernardine Dohrn]]. She was apprehended and [[John Abt]], [[general counsel]] of the Communist Party USA, represent her.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Abt|first1=John|authorlink1=John Abt|last2=Myerson|first2=Michael|title=Advocate and Activist: Memoirs of an American Communist Lawyer|url=https://books.google.com/?id=9REaIPPh4k4C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=1993|publisher=University of Illinois Press|location=Urbana, Illinois|isbn=978-0-252-02030-8}}</ref>
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While being held in the Women's Detention Center, Davis was initially segregated from other prisoners, in [[solitary confinement]]. With the help of her legal team, she obtained a federal [[court order]] to get out of the segregated area.<ref>{{cite book|last=Davis|first=Angela Yvonne|title=Angela Davis: An Autobiography|date=March 1989|publisher=International Publishers|location=New York City|isbn=0-7178-0667-7|chapter=Nets}}</ref> [[John Lennon]] and [[Yoko Ono]] wrote the song "Angela" in support of Davis.<ref>Blaney, John. 2005 ''John Lennon: Listen to this Book''. PaperJukebox. p. 117</ref> Davis wa eventually aquitted.
    
Jones initiated friendships with progressive leaders in the San Francisco area including Angela Davis and Dennis Banks of the American Indian Movement (AIM).<ref>{{cite book|last=Scheers|first=Julia|authorlink=|date=2011|title=A Thousand Lives: the Untold Story of Jonestown|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h1s_Ee8QDlcC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA33#v=onepage&q&f=false|location=New York|publisher=Simon and Schuster|page=33|isbn=9781451628968|accessdate=February 5, 2019}}</ref> Angela Davis addressed the crowd in Jonestown via shortwave radio.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Reiterman|first1=Tim|last2=Jacobs|first2=John|title=Raven (book)|Raven: The Untold Story of Rev. Jim Jones and His People|publisher=Dutton|year=1982|page=369|isbn=978-0-525-24136-2}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Angela Davis & the Six Day Siege|url=http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=19021|publisher=Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple}}</ref> In her statement during the "Six Day Siege," Davis expressed support for the People's Temple and told members there was a conspiracy against them. She said, {{quotebox|"when you are attacked, it is because of your [[progressive]] stand, and we feel that it is directly an attack against us as well."<ref>{{cite web|title=Statement of Angela Davis (Text)|url=http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=19027|publisher=Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple|accessdate=February 5, 2019}}</ref>}}
 
Jones initiated friendships with progressive leaders in the San Francisco area including Angela Davis and Dennis Banks of the American Indian Movement (AIM).<ref>{{cite book|last=Scheers|first=Julia|authorlink=|date=2011|title=A Thousand Lives: the Untold Story of Jonestown|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h1s_Ee8QDlcC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA33#v=onepage&q&f=false|location=New York|publisher=Simon and Schuster|page=33|isbn=9781451628968|accessdate=February 5, 2019}}</ref> Angela Davis addressed the crowd in Jonestown via shortwave radio.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Reiterman|first1=Tim|last2=Jacobs|first2=John|title=Raven (book)|Raven: The Untold Story of Rev. Jim Jones and His People|publisher=Dutton|year=1982|page=369|isbn=978-0-525-24136-2}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Angela Davis & the Six Day Siege|url=http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=19021|publisher=Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple}}</ref> In her statement during the "Six Day Siege," Davis expressed support for the People's Temple and told members there was a conspiracy against them. She said, {{quotebox|"when you are attacked, it is because of your [[progressive]] stand, and we feel that it is directly an attack against us as well."<ref>{{cite web|title=Statement of Angela Davis (Text)|url=http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=19027|publisher=Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple|accessdate=February 5, 2019}}</ref>}}
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