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_ DRAFT . UNIT... STATES DEPARTMENT OF JU... ICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION . WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535 av (Draft of Proposed Letter) The Washington Post 1515 L, Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. 20005 equ ‘ I wish to take exception tg the misleading impressions pte concerning the criminal character of George Jackson GHEE 2s set forth in the editorial "Justice and the Angela Davis Verdict,'' which appeared in "The Washington Post" on June 6th. / Since editorial expresgions often strongly influence reader viewpoints, Iam sure you will agree that fairness and objectivity should be prime considerations. These essentials, in my opinion, were missing when it was stated that "George Jackson was in the twelfth year of an ‘up to life sentende’ for a $70 armed robbery," and b7C that €@iiMED "is serving a life sentence ‘without the possibility of parole’ for an offense involving he transfer of $10 worth of marijuana." A reasonable man, I feel, would gonclude that these individuals were overly penalized for the offenses entioned, out of all proportion to the severity of the crimes involved. Logically, it would appear they were both victims of gross injustice. A closer examination, however, of the criminal histories of Jackson @iiD might r ult in a far different conclusion, and it is interesting to note that other publications of widespread readership assumed the responsibility of fully informing their readers of the true C nature of the criminal histories of Jackson QE = Jackson, for 47 example, received his indeterminate sentence of one year to life after admitting participation in an armed robbery, wherein the robbery victim was threatened with death, and this sentence was affixed as a result of two previous commitments as a juvenile offender. GHED described in