BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org
PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:Indybay-18706745
SEQUENCE:18798040
CREATED:20120207T014300Z
DESCRIPTION:Presentation & Book Signing by Judge Lise Pearlman, Ret. THE SKY’S THE 
 LIMIT People v. Newton The REAL Trial of the 20th century?\n\nAn early 
 morning shootout between Black Panther leader Huey Newton and two Oakland 
 policemen put Newton on trial for his life in the volatile summer of 1968. 
 Author Lise Pearlman compares that highly politicized trial to other 
 historic legal battles featuring murder, rape and kidnapping, skeletons in 
 celebrity closets, class warfare, fixing the World Series, evolution versus 
 creationism, abuse of power and political conspiracy. Each “trial of the 
 century” serves as a window into its own era. Should the Newton murder 
 trial rank number one? The accused revolutionary put America itself on 
 trial for 400 years of racism. The defense  focused international attention 
 on a superpower rocked by two political assassinations and bitterly divided 
 over the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement. At the time, the FBI 
 considered the Panthers the greatest internal threat to America’s 
 security. So did Party spokesman Eldridge Cleaver, who predicted warfare in 
 city streets across the country if Newton were condemned to die. The author 
 contends the jury’s surprising verdict still reverberates today—had it 
 turned out otherwise Barack Obama would likely not be President.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/02/06/18706745.php
SUMMARY:Presentation & Book Signing The Sky's the Limit, People v. New
LOCATION:Witkin Law Library\n125 12th Street, Oakland, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/02/06/18706745.php
DTSTART:20120209T010000Z
DTEND:20120209T030000Z
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR