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RISE AND FALL OF CALIFORNIA RADICAL PRISON MOVEMENT: Multiple stories contradict each other. AC Inmate Johnny Spain "There was a gun introduced into the Adjustment Center on August 21". Jackson first released AC revolutionary convicts shouting "The Dragon has come". call for aid went out and heavily armed CHP and marin county sherriff's deputies converged on prison and closed off all access roads. George Jackson said "It's me they want" and with a gun in hand accompanied with Johnny Spain he bolted out through AC lobby into prison "plaza" where he was killed instantly by marksman on the yard gunrail with one shot to middle of his back, which according to official reports ricocheted off his spine or pelvis and exited the top of his skull. Librarian James McHenry witnessed the killing and said "He got shot just as I came out of the library. I saw him fall". McHenry and another officer ordered to take Jackson's body to the morgue, make count of bullet holes, and to take an accounting of personal possessions in his pockets. It is possible that Jackson assembled a gun himself from parts smuggled piecemeal into the prison and thrown over the AC yard fence by mainline prisoners. There is evidence that points to the smuggling of an already assembled gun. Message written and afterward erased but still visible under obliqued light was found in Jackson's cell after the incident "Take the bullets out of the bag" "Hurry and give me the piece in the bag. Keep the bullets". According to prison officials, who had to change their version of the story several times over the next weeks to resolve contradictions, weapon in question was 9mm astra m-600 almost 9 inches and weighing 2.5 lbs. After visit, prisoner supposedly got up and walked distance back to AC (50yds) balancing the long/bulky weapon on his head. Opposing scenario suggested that SQ guards received nonfunctioning weapon with filed down firing pin from outside source (Criminal Investigation and Identification Department of the state attorney general's office or Criminal Conspiracy Section of LAPD which they planted on Jackson in setup for assassination. Functioning 9mm Astra was placed beside Jackson's body after death. After his death the AC was retaken by heavily armed guards. (209-212)

224: Discusses the repercussions inmates faced with beatings and the threats they faced everyday by the guards. Focusing heavily on some of the SQ6

262: Much of the debate about what happened that day surrounds the weapon. Department of Corrections changed its mind several times in the first few days following bloodbath about exactly what weapon Jackson allegedly used. weapon the department originally claimed was discovered under prisoner's body, 9mm Astra, was too large to be smuggled inside Bingham's tape recorder or to have been hidden under his wig as prosecution argued it had been. department than changed its mind say it was instead a .38 caliber llama corto that was used. louis tackwood insisted that the gun he took to the prison for jackson was a .25 caliber revolver. following june, DA charles garry through his hands at all this contradictory testimony. he was sure of one thing which was that the escape theory was "garbage". claimed that AC was simply "a cesspool that overflowed that day". bloodbath was result of "an emotional upheaval" not a conspiracy to escape.