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Monday, June 5, 1972 A-2 THE SUN Tass Reports Angela's Acquittal Without Comment World Reaction Generally Reserved as a wonderful surprise," the 73-year-old philosophy professor said. "Given the political pressures, it speaks very much for judge and jury that they returned the verdict." Herbert Marcuse of the University of California, said in Frankfurt he was "delighted" at the news of her acquittal. "Although I never for one moment believed Angela was guilty, it still came South's 'Stop McGovern' Fails liilMH' IllliSli AP Wlrephoto Jurors Talk to Newsmen After Acquitting Angela Davis Stephanie Ryon, left, and forewoman Mrs. Mary Timothy smile Jurors Join in Hugs, Kisses you. The woman who was named foremanMary Timothy spoke for the panel, saying they thought Superior Court Judge Richard E.

Arnason was "fantastic" and the lawyers "excellent." But she declined to reveal how many ballots jurors had to take before reaching their verdict. They deliberated for 13 hours in less than three days and declared their verdict was unanimous. The youngest juror on the panel, 21-year-old Michelle Savage, with tears on her cheeks, said she was "so nervous" she couldn't say anything. Mrs. Timothy, a Stanford University lose his horns if he took on a vice-presidential running mate from the South.

Rep. Wilbur D. Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Commit- tee from Arkansas, is the man Bumpers has in mind and Mills had two dinner meetings with McGovern in California last week. Mills still insists that he has no yen for second spot on the Democratic ticket. Florida Gov.

Reubin D. Askew is the southern governor McGovern has mentioned as a possible vice-presidential' candidate. But Hearnes and Carter said they, didn't think the vice-presidential running mate would solve McGovern's problems in the South and border states. "I don't know what southern governor you could find who would have a philoso- phy similar to Sen. McGovern," said Hearnes.

Meanwhile, McGovern got kind words from Pennsylvania Gov. Milton J. Shapp, who is still officially supporting Muskie, Shapp said that if McGovern "wallops the field" in the California primary and arrives with the 1,300 convention delegates he hopes to have before the first ballot, that the fight will be It would seriously hurt the party to stop McGovern at that point, he said. "The only thing I'm in is a slop-Nixon movement," said Shapp. One-Upping Prize month.

And both pointedly refused to give pat answers on whether they might even send troops to defend Israel, argu- -ing in tandem that it was an eventuality they could not foresee and didn't intend to anticipate. "I don't see any point in doing a. lot of saber-rattling about what we would do if the Soviet Union intervened further in the Middle East," McGovern said. Mrs. Chisholm provided one of the few moments of asperity when a ques-.

tioner suggested she might really like to bt; a vice-presidential candidate with one of the major aspirants. "I could serve as President of this country, believe it or not," she fired back. "That's why I'm running." The liveliest moments, however, came when Humphrey asked McGovern for. another debate on election eve. "We'll divide up the cost," he said, "We'll go at it, hook and tong We'll just go out and buy an hour." Somewhat startled, McGovern replied, "I rhink that's fine." Then he added that he's willing "any time we can work it out." "Let's see if we can pin this down," Humphrey pursued.

And McGovern replied that he has other commitments today but could change them. "I think we can work it out," he said. But Yorty put the clincher on the1 debrte negotiations a moment later. "I don't think anybody would watch," he sjid. Actor's Car Hils a Wall SANTA FE, N.M.

(AP) -Actor Rock Hudson was treated for minor cuts and-bruises yesterday after an antique car he was driving crashed into a tree and wall on a Sante Fe street, authorities' said. (Continued From A 1) an attempt to keep McGovern from winning the nomination on the convention's first ballot. Some influential southern governors backed away even though they share Carter's view that McGovern as the Democratic presidential candidate would be a disaster in theSouth, helping cause the defeat of Democratic Senate, House and state office candidates. "I'm not going to join a stop-McGovern movement," said Arkansas Gov. Dale Bumpers.

The movement couldn't take off without a pilot. Also missing was an acceptable alternative to McGovern. Although Democratic governors like Carter and Gov. Warren Hearnes of Missouri control a large bloc of convention votes, they are unwilling to throw them to Sen. Hubert H.

Humphrey, the candidate nearest McGovern, or to Muskie, who began the year with the strongest support from among the governors. McGovern's positions on welfare, defense budget reductions, school busing, amnesty for Vietnam draft resisters and redistribution of income from rich to poor are causing anguish among the southern and border state Democratic governors. Bumpers said that McGovern might Humphrey Wins (Continued From A 1) in this campaign, made an obvious bid to be the newsmaker of the debate with his proposal for sending Connally to Hanoi. And he lavished praise on Connally in language that could come back to haunt him if the Texas Democrat were to end up on Nixon's ticket in the fall. "This is the kind of man we need," he declared, "He's tough.

He's fair. He knows what's going on." The discussion of the prisoner issue was enlivened by the fact that Yorty pointed out at the outset that "i'm the only one here wearing a prisoner of war bracelet" a reference to those virtually all candidates have worn at some point this year to symbolize their commitment to freeing the POWs. But there was nothing new in either McGovern's or Humphrey's position on Ihe issue, other than Humphrey's suggestion Connally be sent to get the job done. Beyond that, the 1968 nominee made it clear that he still would insist on prior agreement to release the prisoners as a condition of U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam.

"Why throw in the sponge ahead of time?" he asked. And McGovern made it just as clear he favors a total withdrawal as the best way to assure the release, he conceded that "no one can guarantee" the prisoners would be freed but said "what we can guarantee" is that the present policy of military escalation isn't getting them out either. McGovern and Humphrey agreed on two other questions that have been raised frequently in the past. Both said they intend to support the Democratic nominee chosen at Miami Beach next DO SOME nnn nnnnnV7 I I A DO SOME EVEN BENDING VOTES HIS UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL World reaction was generally reserved yesterday on the acquittal in San Jose, of Angela Davis, whose arrest on murder and conspiracy charges was often severely criticized by left-wing groups and newspapers. The official Soviet news agency Tass reported without comment that Miss Davis, long-championed in the Soviet press as a heroine who was "framed" because she was black and an avowed Communist, had been found innocent.

"The jury verdict declared her not guilty after thorough consideration of all the materials," Tass said. In Frankfurt, West Germany's "Angela Davis Solidarity Committee" greeted her acquittal as a prevention of a "political terror verdict" but said "it doesn't only concern Angela Dais, rather the fate of all political prisoners in the U.S.A. who are less prominent." A Black Panther party spokesman in Algiers said the verdict was "a good thing, but we still have no illusions about the situation in the (United) States. Many political prisoners prisoners of war are being tried unfairly." The spokesman said it was his contention her all-white jury was not "this time prejudiced against her. They didn't judge her for what the prosecution said about her political stance," he said.

Miss Davis' political mentor, Trof. Jurors Ranged om 21 to 69 SAN JOSE (AP) The Superior Court jury which acquitted Angela Davis included seven women and five men, ranging in age from 21 to 69. They were: Mary Timothy, 51, Palo Alto, the forewoman. Mrs. Timothy is a Stanford University medical researcher, wife of an attorney and mother of three.

Ralph E. DeLange, 39, San Jose, a maintenance electrician and former English teacher. Nicholas A. Gaetani, 45, San Jose, a bachelor accountant. Ruth Ann Charlton, 41, Palo Alto, a department store selling supervisor whose husband formerly had a home repair business.

Robert Seidel, 69, San Jose, a retired engineer and a native of Denmark. James S. Messer, 33, San Jose, an air traffic controller and a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. Luis F.

Franco, 40, San Jose, a father of two who works in the order and schedule department for International Business Machines. Michelle R. Savage, 21, San Jose, a single secretary. Rosalie Frederick, 44, Los Gatos, a divorcee and mother of three who does part-time picture framing. Winona Walker, 65, Santa Clara, a retired Veterans Administration librarian.

Anne B. Wade, 28, Monte Sereno, wife of an electronics firm production, supervisor and mother of two. Stephanie Ryon, 22, San Jose, a department store collection clerk and wife of a Vietnam veteran. Jlreak in Jersey Labor NEWARK, N.J. (UPI) Fifteen New Jersey labor leaders broke with the state AFL-CIO yesterday and endorsed George S.

McGovern for the Democratic presidential nomination. McAfee, Who 1111. Up Angela's Hail, Celebrates FRESNO, Calif. AP) -The prosperous, pro-Communist farmer who put up the collateral for Angela Davis' bail said yesterday he hoped the black militant would visit his family soon and "relax for a few days" to recuperate from her -kidnap-conspiracy trial. "We're celebrating joyously here today," said Rodger McAfee, 33, father of four sons, who operates a farm and 84-cow daily 17 miles southeast of Fresno.

McAfee pledged 405 acres of his farm land, worth $330,000, as collateral for Miss Davis' $102,500 bond Feb. 23, setting her free from jail. ADVERTISEMENT By LEIF ERICKSON SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) Members of the Angela Davis trial jury, some in tears, yesterday accepted hiiRS, kisses and thanks from Miss Davis, nor family and her attorneys in an emotional post-trial meeting. The seven women and five men who acquitted Miss Davis of murder-kklnap-conspiracy charges, met her for the first time out of the courtroom as they came to a news conference in the courthouse.

Some hugged her while others embraced her mother. One man told her, "Good luck in your endeavors." An elderly woman juror told defense attorney Howard Moore "God bless All-White Jury (Continued From A 1) Angela but all the oppressed people of our land." Miss Davis hugged and thanked the jurors who acquitted her and said she thought they represented a new mood in America. "I think they indicate how the public is becoming aware of government repression," she said. She said that her personal safety may be a problem in her future travels and public the last week or so, we've heard of numerous Ihrents that have come in," she said. "Rut I'm not going to allow that to prevent me from becoming active in the liberation struggle." Some jurors hugged Miss Davis and her mother; others wished her good luck and one woman told a defense attorney, "God bless you." They declined comment on how they had reached their verdict or what factors in the trial might have swayed them.

Asst. Atty. Gen. Albert Harris who prosecuted Miss Davis, declined comment and left the courthouse. Me did not ask for individual polling of the jurors after the verdict was announced.

Rranton called the prosecution case "weak" and criticized Ihe state for keeping Miss Davis jailed for IB months "when they had no case against her." He said he still considered the case "a frameup" which resulted because Miss Davis was a celebrity. Angela Davis was not Angela Davis, she wouldn't have been prosecuted," he said. The defense and Miss Davis' supporters apparently had hints in advance that the verdict would be acquittal. Grinning and jubilant, they gathered in the courthouse enrrider beforehand, clapping hands and singing a spiritual with the words "We've got. our minds set on freedom.

Hallelujah!" Miss Davis, in a blue miniskirt and bright print blouse, joined in the singing. As the verdict was announced, her mother, her head down, clasped the hands of her husband, B. Frank Davis, and her son, Ben, a defensive back for the professional football Cleveland Browns. Branton was cheered and applauded by a crowd of about. 150 of Miss Davis' supporters as he a out of the courthouse with both hands raised above his head In a clenched fist salute.

Moore followed moments later to the same kind of cheering applause. The crowd outside the security fence surrounding the courthouse then started chanting, "The power of the people set. Angela free." They also chanted, "Free Buchell, Free liuchell," meaning ftuchell Magee, the black convict who faces the same charges as Miss Davis did for his alleged part in the Marin escape attempt. The verdict climaxed a trial which many had seen as a testing ground for the American judicial system. Supporters of Miss Davis had called it a "political trial" and the charges "a frameup." Political and racial bias would prevent a fair trial, they said.

The prosecution denied this and portrayed the Davis case as a simple criminal trial with one of the oldest motives known love. In a dramatic start to what was a notably orderly trial, prosecutor Harris unveiled his love and passion theory. He claimed the tall, attractive defendant was a woman driven by love to murder. Beneath the cool academic veneer," he told jurors, "is a woman fully capable of being moved to violence by passion." researcher and wife of a a 1 Alto attorney, said she thought her selection as what she called "forewoman" was a symbol of women's liberation. She said a man nominated her and that she signed the verdict variously a "foreperson," "forewoman," and "foreMs." Juror Stephanie Ryon, 22, said of the trial experience, "I'm sure in one way or another it will change my life." The jurors refused to reveal any details of how they reached their verdicts but Mrs.

Timothy, asked to comment on the judicial system, said, "I think its the best process that any country has come up with." "VM y1 AP Wlrephoto JUROR STEPHANIE RYON hugged by Angela Davis opening statement, then sat by and let her team of four lawyers take over. The prosecution, shunning any references to Miss Davis' race or politics, methodically laid out its admittedly circumstantial case in seven weeks with 95 witnesses and more than 200 pieces of evidence. It stressed three love letters and a diary in which Miss Davis declared herself "crazy with love and desire" for George Jackson and urged at one point, "We must learn to rejoice when pigs' blood is spilled." Jackson, who became" known for his book of letters, "Soledad Brother," was slain Aug. 21, 1971, in what authorities called an escape attempt from San Qucn-ten Prison. Other key points, the prosecution said, were Miss Davis' purchases of guns used in the shootings especially the sawed-off shotgun which she bought only two days before the courthouse invasion.

They called eyewitnesses to say she was with Jonathan Jackson when he visited his brother, George, at San Quentin Prison for three days before the shootings. Other witnesses said they saw Angela and Jonathan Jackson in the yellow van at Marin County Civic Center the day before the violence. The defense, in an abbreviated three-day presentation, called alibi witnesses who said Miss Davis couldn't have been at San Quentin or Marin because she was with them. They supplied explanations of how Jonathan could have taken the guns without Miss Davis knowledge that they were kept in a community gun rack for defense of the Soledad Brothers Defense Committee headquarters. A key defense witness was a psychologist who told jurors that eyewitness identifications are unreliable and some may have volunteered that they saw Miss Davis because they wanted "to be part of history." In final arguments, Harris told jurors there was a strong chain of circumstantial evidence linking Miss Davis to the crime.

He defended the testimony of eyewitnesses, noting that they often corroborated each other. He called at least one defense witness a liar, and concluded by telling jurors, "Nothing you do when you bring in a verdict will restore Judge Haley to life, to his robes, to his bench. But what you can do is see that justice is done in this case We think you'll be doing your duty to bring in a verdict of guilty." Chief defense attorney Branton, in an emotion-packed final argument, told the all-white jury "to think black, to be black" while deliberating Miss Davis' verdict. "Don't worry," he told the panel, "when this case is over I will release you to revert back to the safety of what you are." if 1 CANDIDATES RESORT TO SAYING, DOING, THE TRUTH IN ORDER TO SWAY Acquits Angela Miss Davis, soft-spoken and scholarly, delivered her own opening statement. She branded the state's claims "utterly fantastic utterly absurd." She called the efforts to prove a love motive "a symptom of the male chauvinism which prevails in this society." The prosecutor's theory presented in minute detail in seven weeks of testimonywas that Miss Davis, madly in love with convict-author George Jackson, conspired with his younger brother Jonathan, 17, to free George from prison.

The plot, said Harris, was to invade the Marin County courthouse, take hostages and exchange them for George, one of the celebrated 1 a Brothers," three unrelated black convicts who had become folk heroes of the black movement. But the plan went awry, said Harris, and resulted in death for a judge and three abductors at Marin. The courthouse killings exploded on the muggy summer morning of Aug. 7, 1070. A handsome young man, Jonathan Jackson, calmly carried concealed guns into Judge Harold Haley's courtroom and announced to terrified trial participants, "This is it!" Joined by the convict on trial and his witnesses, Jackson helped herd hostages the Judge, prosecutor and three women jurors into a awaiting yellow escape van.

Sheriff's deputies, fearing for the lives of hostages, held their fire. But, as Ihe van pulled out, San Quentin Prison guards, abductors and the hostage prosecutor all fired guns. When the shooting stopped, the van was bloody with the dead and wounded. The face of Judge Harold Haley, who had left, the courthouse with a sa wed-off shotgun held to his neck, was unrecognizable, his head blown to pieces by one blast. Strewn about the van were the bodies of young Jackson and convicts James McClain, 37, and William Christmas, 27.

A woman juror was wounded along with Magee, last seen holding the shotgun on the judge. The prosecutor, Gary Thomas, 32, had been shot in the spine and would be paralyzed for life. Magee faces trial on murder, kidnap and conspiracy charges this year. Authorities added another shock when they reported that four guns found inside the van were registered to Angela Y. Davis.

ller connection with the killings made headlines. In California, Angela Davis already was a celebrity. As the embattled teacher fired from UCLA for being a Communist, she had fought in the courts to regain her job. By the time charges were filed against her Aug. 14, 1070, Angela Davis was missing.

On Aug. 18, she was placed on the FBI's list of 10 most-wanted fugitives. For two months, authorities followed false leads. Then, on Oct. 13, 1970, FBI agents arrested Miss Davis at a downtown New York hotel.

She was chicly disguised, her billowing Afro hairdo hidden under a pixie wig. With her was a handsome black man, David R. Poindexter 30. He was subsequently tried and acquitted of harboring a fugitive. He said he didn't know she was being sought.

After her extradition, Miss Davis was jailed in California. During 11 months of pretrial hearings she fought to leave jail, and won only after California abolished the death penalty and the no-bail rule for capital crimes. When her trial opened Feb. 28, the tall, striking Miss Davis acted-as one of her own attorneys. She questioned potential jurors, delivered her own CANDIDATES RESORT TO CHARACTER WI.M ASSASSINATION, EVEN DESTROY THE OPPONENT'S SIGNS IN ORDER TO SWAY VOTES HIS UULAJ Re-elect a Man who Represents EXPERIENCE NOT AN ASSEMBLYMAN QHfJ P.

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