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*RARE* 1971 STEPHEN BINGHAM BLACK PANTHER PARTY GEORGE JACKSON FBI WANTED POSTERStephen Mitchell Bingham(born April 23, 1942) is an inactive American legal services andcivil rightsattorneywho, after being a fugitive from justice from 1971 to 1984, was tried and acquitted in 1986 for his alleged role inBlack PantherGeorge Jackson\'s attempted escape earlier fromSan Quentin State PrisoninMarin County,California, in 1971.
Bingham was accused of concealing a pistol in a tape recorder and smuggling it to Jackson in San Quentin\'s Adjustment Center. On August 21, 1971, Jackson used a pistol, anAstra 9-mm semi-automatic, to take over his tier in the Adjustment Center. In the failed escape attempt, six people were killed, including Jackson, two fellow inmates and three prison guards.
Following the incident, Bingham fled to Philadelphia, before departing to Eastern Europe.Bingham eventually moved to France, where he attended film classes at theUniversity of Paris. He also joined an artist collective that created documentaries about the country\'s agricultural workers.In total, he lived in Europe for 13 years.In 1974, Bingham was interviewed forThe New York Timesin an unknown Canadian city by a law school classmate.Afterwards, theFBIworked with theRoyal Canadian Mounted Policein an attempt to locate him.In 1984, he returned to the United States and surrendered in San Francisco.He claimed that he had been framed due to his activism for Left-wing causes, includingprison reform.He was reported to have \"lived quietly inSan Jose, Californiafor six months\" prior to surrendering.
On July 5, 1984, Bingham\'s attorney, Paul A. Harris, announced that Bingham would surrender \"within a week.\"He surrendered on July 9 with the help of formerUnited States Attorney GeneralRamsey Clark. According to Harris, government authorities set up Bingham as a scapegoat to deter other attorneys from assisting the \"black radical movement.\"Bingham\'s father suggested that a woman, Vanita Anderson, who went with Bingham to San Quentin that day, but was never arrested or indicted, may have been involved in a plot to smuggle a weapon into the prison.
Georgia State SenatorJulian Bondand writerJessica Mitfordwere among those noted to have contributed financial ormoral supportto Bingham.Prior to the trial, he was defended byLeonard Weinglass.
Opening arguments in the trial were scheduled to begin on April 7, 1986.
AsTime Magazinewrote at the time, \"During a ten-week trial, Marin County prosecutors argued that Bingham\'s flight was proof of his guilt. Defense attorneys contended that prison guards had slipped Jackson the gun, hoping that the incendiary black militant would be killed. Bingham, they said, fled to save his life. \"To understand this case,\" declared Bingham\'s lawyerM. Gerald Schwartzbach, \"you have to understand 1971 . . . We\'re talking about a time when students were murdered atKent StateandJackson State.\"AMarin County, Californiajury eventually acquitted him of murder and conspiracy charges at trial in 1986.
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