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5 unusual facts about George Jackson


George Jackson

Sir George Duckett, 1st Baronet (1725–1822), born George Jackson, British politician and MP

Hugo Pinell

On August 21, 1971, there was a prisoner uprising in Pinell's housing unit at San Quentin, led by George Jackson.

While Pinell was imprisoned in San Quentin State Prison he made contact with revolutionary prisoners such as George Jackson, one of the Soledad Brothers and W.L. Nolen.

The Plants

James Lawson (baritone), Thuman Thrower (bass), Steve McDowell (first tenor) and George Jackson (lead) constituted the original line-up, who were known as The Equadors.

William Harding Jackson

To the occasional amusement of many politicians and Washington, DC insiders, there was a George Jackson at CIA serving on the National Board of Estimates Staff, and other members of the 'Jackson Committee' which included the Committee's Chief of Staff, Wayne Jackson, a former office-mate of Bill Jackson's at the law firm Carter, Ledyard & Milburn, and C. D. Jackson from the private sector Time-Life-Fortune magazine syndicate.


D Stevens

In early 1970, as Public Affairs Director KPFK-FM, Stevens won a Golden Mike award for exposing conditions at California's Soledad Prison and the cause of the "Soledad Brothers" including George Jackson.

Edward Pimental

A "Command George Jackson" claimed responsibility in a letter signed by the RAF and the French Action directe armed group, reaching the Frankfurter Rundschau desk and two news agencies the same day.

Kanawha County textbook controversy

Upon receiving the review copies, Moore was disturbed by a quote from the Autobiography of Malcolm X in which he referred to Christians as "brainwashed"; she requested and received all 300 textbooks, and claims she found quotes from Allen Ginsberg, Sigmund Freud's Oedipus complex, and convicted Black Panthers such as Eldridge Cleaver and George Jackson.

Port Jackson

The first recorded European discovery of Sydney Harbour, was by Lieutenant James Cook in 1770 - Cook named the inlet after Sir George Jackson, (one of the Lord Commissioners of the British Admiralty, and Judge Advocate of the Fleet).


see also

George Duckett

Sir George Duckett, 1st Baronet (1725–1822), born George Jackson, British MP for Weymouth & Melcombe Regis, Colchester

Jonathan Jackson

Jonathan P. Jackson (1953–1970), brother of George Jackson and perpetrator of 1970 Marin County courthouse incident

Marjorie Silverman

She currently sits on the Boards of the George Jackson Academy, where she is Vice-Chairman, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.

The Dead of Jericho

As do Ms Scott's neighbours, including the nosy handyman George Jackson, and Sophocles's Oedipus Rex (the latter also figures in episode 3.1 of the spin-off TV series Lewis).