Sidebar ’68: The Masked Poet
In my haste to get to the Presidio Mutiny Court Martial (which is when I really got to know...
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Category: Our Times
The Presidio Mutiny
The event that came to be called “The Presidio Mutiny” was a non-violent sit-down in the yard by...
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The Hip Lefty Lawyer
In 1967, the year Terence “Kayo” Hallinan was sworn in as a lawyer, thousands of young...
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Like his father before him, Terence Hallinan was prevented from practicing law by the California Bar Association. Vincent Hallinan’s license had been suspended for three years (1957-1960) after he was convicted of federal...
Read MoreMcCarthyism, Marin, McNeil Island
Vincent Hallinan believed Harry Bridges when he said had he never joined the Communist Party (CP), so there could be no documentary evidence to the contrary produced at the trial —no authentic membership card or signed...
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