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Associated Press They Won't Leave

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09794.04 Author/Creator: Associated Press Place Written: San Francisco, California Type: Photograph Date: 1 December 1969 Pagination: 1 photograph ; 20.2 x 26 cm. Order a Copy

One wirephoto taken by Associated Press dated December 1, 1969. Image depicts activist, Richard Oaks with Cecil Poole, U.S. atttorney at Alcatraz Island, surrounded by guard and activists. Wire transfer information states that Poole met with Oakes to urge their evacuation, protesters did not comply.

Oakes, Richard, 1942-1972
Poole, Cecil F., 1914-1997

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