Harold Haley was born on this date in 1904. He died on August 7, 1970. At the time he was a Marin County Superior Court judge. Haley was married to his high school classmate Gertrude Ahern with whom he had three daughters and had been appointed to the court by Governor Pat Brown (D) in 1965.
On August 7, while presiding over a trial, Judge Haley was the subject of an attack by Jonathan Jackson and three accomplices (one of whom was on trial). Along with Haley, the attackers took a deputy district attorney and three jurors as hostages. A shotgun was taped to Judge Haley's neck. The attackers demanded the release of several radicals held at San Quentin prison.
As the attackers drove the hostages away in a van, one of them began firing at the police. In the ensuing melee, Judge Haley and three of the attackers were killed and the deputy district attorney was hit in the spine and permanently paralyzed. Haley was hit by both the shotgun tied to him and a pistol shot to the chest.
Two days before the assault, Angela Davis purchased the shotgun for the 17-year old Jonathan Jackson. Two years later, Davis who became a fugitive after the attack, was tried and acquitted of being an accomplice.
Davis went on to a notorious career as an outspoken communist and opponent of human rights. In a sign of the degradation of the American academic community she held a series of prestigious academic appointments.
More recently, Davis has been hailed as a forerunner of the Woke movement in publications such as the New York Times, Time, and Vanity Fair. Judge Haley has been dead for 51 years. There would be many more dead if Angela Davis had her way. There may still be.
For more on Angela Davis read Normalizing Mass Murder and Repression, Part 2.
UPDATE: Well, what have we here? Just discovered that George Washington University recently had Prof Davis keynote its Diversity Summit. The article describes the communist and human rights opponent as "a distinguished civil rights activist".
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