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Talk:Mayor Angelo Rossi

2009-03-22T02:26:05Z

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You really need to allow contributors to add to these historical essays. They are fine, as far as they go but if I clicked on Angelo Rossi, I'd like the facts first, then the pictures and commentary.

As a contributor, I would like to have some input to this page, or i would like to have access to the title, which is captured by one author.

hank C

Fremont Older - Newspaperman

2009-03-22T00:37:43Z

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Fremont Older

Fremont Older (30 August 1856 - 3 March 1935) was born in a log cabin in Wisconsin. He was a newspaperman and editor in San Francisco, California for nearly fifty years. He is best known for his campaigns against civic corruption and efforts on behalf of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings, wrongly convicted of the Preparedness Day bombing of 1916.

Older began his working life at age twelve as an apprentice printer, he claimed, after reading the story of Horace Greeley. He worked in Virginia City, Nevada, on the Enterprise, then moved on to the Redwood City Journal, later writing for the Alta California.

In 1895, Older became manging editor of the San Francisco Bulletin (later merged with the San Francisco Call in 1929), and gained notoriety when he took on the Boss Abe Ruef machine in San Francisco, during the mayoralty of Eugene Schmitz, which led to the corruption trials during the rebuilding of San Francisco following the 1906 Earthquake and fire.

At one point, Older was kidnapped and threatened with murder by persons unknown, but said to be working for the grafters. In his later his years at the Bulletin, Older was offended by the owner's rewriting of his editorials and refusal to commit to a lifelong appointment, so after twenty-three years of service, he resigned in 1918 and went to William Randolph Hearst's paper, the San Francisco Call. Along with talented staff, he brought the Mooney case and numerous other stories that the Bulletin owner had refused to carry, including the Fair will case involving a state Supreme court justice and a bribe amounting to $100,000.

Older originally believed Mooney was guilty, but changed his mind and spent twenty years working for Mooney and Billings release, although it was reported that he disliked Mooney, thinking him worthy of jail for real crimes, but not for the bombing at Stuart and Market for which he was jailed. For his efforts, Older was called a Communist, a Wobblie, a syndicalist and traitor, but Hearst backed him. Older died a few years before Mooney was pardoned by California Governor Culbert Olson in 1939.

Older was also an early defender of prostitutes, having published a story at the Bulletin in 1917 entitled "A Voice from the Underworld, by Alice Smith".The article also increased the circulation of the Bulletin.

Older was a long time friend and correspondent with Clarence Darrow and was known as a friend to the poor. He regularly tried to reform drunkards and criminals with mixed success. After twenty years of attempting to help such persons, Older said, "I'm sorry, but I must admit that of the scores I have helped, all but one or two have failed me."

* The World War II Liberty ship, the S.S. Fremont Older, was named for Older.
* The Fremont Older Open Space Preserve is also named for Older.

Resources

Gaudy Century, the story of San Francisco's hundred years of robust journalism - John Bruce - Random House N.Y. 1948

My Own Story - Fremont Older - Macmillan N. Y. 1926. Focuses on the San Francisco newspaper and political scene 1895-1917, rather than on Older's biography.

See also,Biography of Fremont Older on www.sfmuseum.org

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Winifred Bonfils - journalist

2009-03-18T19:58:10Z

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'''Winifred Sweet Black Bonfils (October 14, 1863, Chilton, Wisconsin – May 25, 1936, San Francisco, California)''' was an American reporter and columnist for [[William Randolph Hearst]]'s news syndicate writing as Winifred Black, and for the San Francisco Examiner as Annie Laurie. She was one of the most prominent "sob sisters", a label given female reporters who wrote human interest stories. Her first husband was Orlow Black, and her second was publisher Charles Bonfils.

Bonfils was the daughter of Civil War General Benjamin Sweet. After writing to the Chicago Tribune, she was hired for a short time then in 1890 she found work at the [[San Francisco Examiner]].

She became famous after staging a fainting on the street in San Francisco to test emergency services, which were found wanting, resulting in a major scandal and institution of ambulance service. In 1900, she dressed as a boy and was the first reporter on the line at the Galveston Hurricane. She delivered an exclusive and Hearst sent relief supplies by train. Later she wrote a biography of Phoebe Apperson Hearst.

The name "Annie Laurie" was a tribute to her contemporary Nellie Bly. Her funeral was nearly a state event in San Francisco.

'''Quotes'''

"a woman has a distinct advantage over a man in reporting if she has sense. . . . Men always are good to women."

On the label, sob-sister, "Most of them are sap sisters."

"I'd rather smell the printer's ink and hear the presses go around than go to any grand opera in the world."

"I like newspapers and newspaper people and newspaper standards, and I like newspaper news too, and I'm just foolish enough to say so. . . . I'm proud of being, in a very humble way, a member of the good old newspaper gang — the kindest-hearted, quickest-witted, clearest-eyed, most courageous assemblage of people I have ever had the honor and the good fortune to know. . . ."

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Winifred Bonfils - journalist

2009-03-18T19:13:29Z

Hchapot: new submission

Winifred Sweet Black Bonfils (October 14, 1863, Chilton, Wisconsin – May 25, 1936, San Francisco, California) was an American reporter and columnist for William Randolph Hearst's news syndicate writing as Winifred Black, and for the San Francisco Examiner as Annie Laurie. She was one of the most prominent "sob sisters", a label given female reporters who wrote human interest stories. Her first husband was Orlow Black, and her second was publisher Charles Bonfils.

Bonfils was the daughter of Civil War General Benjamin Sweet. After writing to the Chicago Tribune, she was hired for a short time then in 1890 she found work at the San Francisco Examiner.

She is famous for staging a fainting on the street to test emergency services in San Francisco which were found wanting, resulting in a major scandal and institution of ambulance service. In 1900, she dressed as a boy and was the first reporter on the line at the Galveston Hurricane. She delivered an exclusive and Hearst sent relief supplies by train. Later she wrote a biography of Phoebe Apperson Hearst.

The name "Annie Laurie" was a tribute to her contemporary Nellie Bly. Her funeral was nearly a state event in San Francisco.

Quotes

"a woman has a distinct advantage over a man in reporting if she has sense. . . . Men always are good to women."

On the label, sob-sister, "Most of them are sap sisters."

"I'd rather smell the printer's ink and hear the presses go around than go to any grand opera in the world."

"I like newspapers and newspaper people and newspaper standards, and I like newspaper news too, and I'm just foolish enough to say so. . . . I'm proud of being, in a very humble way, a member of the good old newspaper gang — the kindest-hearted, quickest-witted, clearest-eyed, most courageous assemblage of people I have ever had the honor and the good fortune to know. . . ."

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San Francico newspapers

2009-03-18T15:54:02Z

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San Francisco Newspapers

2009-03-18T15:54:02Z

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The first newspaper published by Americans in California was the ''Californian,'' printed in Monterey in 1846 announcing the Mexican American war, written half in English and half Spanish. The press was moved to San Francisco and printing started up again on May 22, 1847 in competition with the weekly ''California Star'' published by Mormon pioneer Sam Brannan, beginning that January. Both efforts suspended publication in the face of the [[The Gold Rush: Behind the Hype|California Gold Rush]]. By August, the ''Californian'' had resumed publication, but by November 1848, both papers were bought and merged then renamed the ''Alta California''. The press that once printed the ''Californian'' was moved to the Sacramento area to be used on the ''Placer Times''. The press was again moved and began publishing the Motherlode's first paper, the ''Sonora Herald'', the taken to Columbia to print the ''Columbia Star''. Within a few years of gold discovery, mother lode towns all had multiple competing journals.

San Jose, California's first city, has one of the oldest newspapers in the state. The ''San Jose Mercury'' was founded in 1851 as the ''San Jose Weekly Visitor'', while the ''San Jose News'' was founded in 1883. In 1942 the ''Mercury'' purchased the News and continued publishing both newspapers, with the ''Mercury'' as the morning paper and the News as the evening paper. In 1983 the papers were merged into the ''San Jose Mercury News''. Before 1860, California had 57 newspapers and periodicals serving an average readership of 290,000.

James King of William began publishing the ''Daily Evening Bulletin'' in San Francisco in October, 1855 and built it into the highest circulation paper of its time. He criticized a city supervisor named James P. Casey, who on the afternoon of the story about him ran in the paper, [[For Whom the Belle Toils:|shot and mortally wounded King]]. Casey was lynched by the early vigilante committee. The [[SF Call|''Morning Call'']] was established and began publishing in December 1856, and later merged with the ''Bulletin'' to become the long running ''Call-Bulletin''.

The ''Sacramento Bee'' hit the streets in February, 1857 under the editorship of James McClatchy who began agitating on behalf of farmers against destructive practices of cattle ranching and hydraulic mining interests.

The ''San Francisco Chronicle'' debuted in June, 1865 as the ''Dramatic Chronicle'', founded by Charles and M.H. de Young aged 19 and 17. In 1887, young William Randolph Hearst took over his father's ''Daily Examiner'' which became the flagship of his national chain.

Fremont Older became editor of the ''San Francisco Bulletin'' in 1895 and took up the struggle against the powerful [[The Octopus and the Big Four|Southern Pacific Railroad]] and along with a fellow Californian Lincoln Steffens, became a well known muckraker and the first objective observer to accuse District Attorney Charles Fickert for the framing of labor radical [[TOM MOONEY|Thomas Mooney]].

Other cities have had their own long surviving papers, including the ''Fresno Republican'', the ''Bee'', and the ''Oakland Tribune''.

On October 1, 1910, a bomb exploded at the ''L.A. Times'' building, killing 21 workers. Labor activists were blamed for the bombing, but the ''San Francisco Daily News'', a four-penny paper started in 1903, defended them. The ''Daily News'' joined the Scripps-Howard in 1921. The ''People's World'' began publishing in 1938, the first leftist daily published in the West.

The oldest [[The Black Press|African-American newspaper]], still active in the 1930s, was the ''California Eagle''. It appeared first in Los Angeles in 1879. The first French journals, the ''Californien'' and the ''Gazette Republicane'' both began in 1850, and were followed by the ''Courrier du Pacifique'' in 1852. Both the first German and first Italian papers, the ''California Demokrat'' (1852) and the ''Voce del Popolo'' (1859) were founded in San Francisco and had long runs. Chinese in California have published many newspapers, the first was the ''Gold Hills News'' in 1854.

In 1948 author John Bruce published, ''Gaudy Century, the story of San Francisco's Hundred Years of Robust Journalism''. The book is an indispensable guide to the newspaper history of San Francisco.

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San Francisco Newspapers

2009-03-17T19:39:49Z

Hchapot: TRYING TO CATEGORIZE

The first newspaper published by Americans in California was the Californian, printed in Monterey in 1846 announcing the Mexican American war, written half in English and half Spanish. The press was moved to San Francisco and printing started up again on May 22, 1847 in competition with the weekly California Star published by Mormon pioneer Sam Brannan, beginning that January. Both efforts suspended publication in the face of the California Gold Rush. By August, the Californian had resumed publication, but by November 1848, both papers were bought and merged then renamed the Alta California. The press that once printed the Californian was moved to the Sacramento area to be used on the Placer Times. The press was again moved and began publishing the Motherlode's first paper, the Sonora Herald, the taken to Columbia to print the Columbia Star. Within a few years of gold discovery, mother lode towns all had multiple competing journals.

San Jose, California's first city, has one of the oldest newspapers in the state. The San Jose Mercury was founded in 1851 as the San Jose Weekly Visitor, while the San Jose News was founded in 1883. In 1942 the Mercury purchased the News and continued publishing both newspapers, with the Mercury as the morning paper and the News as the evening paper. In 1983 the papers were merged into the San Jose Mercury News. Before 1860, California had 57 newspapers and periodicals serving an average readership of 290,000.

James King of William began publishing the Daily Evening Bulletin in San Francisco in October, 1855 and built it into the highest circulation paper of its time. He criticized a city supervisor named James P. Casey, who on the afternoon of the story about him ran in the paper, shot and mortally wounded King. Casey was lynched by the early vigilante committee. The Morning Call was established and began publishing in December 1856, and later merged with the Bulletin to become the long running Call-Bulletin.

The Sacramento Bee hit the streets in February, 1857 under the editorship of James McClatchy who began agitating on behalf of farmers against destructive practices of cattle ranching and hydraulic mining interests.

The San Francisco Chronicle debuted in June, 1865 as the Dramatic Chronicle, founded by Charles and M.H. de Young aged 19 and 17. In 1887, young William Randolph Hearst took over his father's Daily Examiner which became the flagship of his national chain.

Fremont Older became editor of the San Francisco Bulletin in 1895 and took up the struggle against the powerful Southern Pacific Railroad and along with a fellow Californian Lincoln Steffens, became a well known muckraker and the first objective observer to accuse District Attorney Charles Fickert for the framing of labor radical Thomas Mooney.

Other cities have had their own long surviving papers, including the Fresno Republican, the Bee, and the Oakland Tribune.

On October 1, 1910, a bomb exploded at the L.A. Times building, killing 21 workers. Labor activists were blamed for the bombing, but the San Francisco Daily News, a four-penny paper started in 1903, defended them. The Daily News joined the Scripps-Howard in 1921. The People's World began publishing in 1938, the first leftist daily published in the West.

The oldest African-American newspaper, still active in the 1930s, was the California Eagle. It appeared first in Los Angeles in 1879. The first French journals, the Californien and the Gazette Republicane both began in 1850, and were followed by the Courrier du Pacifique in 1852. Both the first German and first Italian papers, the California Demokrat (1852) and the Voce del Popolo (1859) were founded in San Francisco and had long runs. Chinese in California have published many newspapers, the first was the Gold Hills News in 1854.

In 1948 author John Bruce published, Gaudy Century, the story of San Francisco's Hundred Years of Robust Journalism. The book is an indispensable guide to the newspaper history of San Francisco.

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San Francisco Newspapers

2009-03-17T02:59:17Z

Hchapot: new submission, Newspoapers

Vincent Hallinan

2009-03-16T03:58:42Z

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'''Vincent Hallinan'''

(December 16, 1896 - October 2, 1992) was an American lawyer and candidate for President of the United States for the Progressive Party in the 1952 election.

Hallinan was born into a large immigrant Irish-Catholic family and raised in San Francisco and Petaluma, California. His father Patrick was said to be a member of the Irish National Invincibles, a revolutionary organization that, among other activities, was reputed to have assassinated the Lord Mayor of Dublin and his secretary in 1881, the infamous Phoenix Park Murders, who then fled to the U.S. The elder Hallinan became a streetcar conductor in San Francisco, and was one of the leaders of the Great Front Strike of 1899-1900.

Trained by Jesuits in high school, Vincent passed the California Bar at the age of 22 after studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Career in law and politics

His early successes in court included personal injury actions against the powerful Market Street Railway Company which ran most of the trolley lines on the streets of San Francisco and was a subsidiary of northern California rail interests. The rail company also owned the system whereby jurors' lists were kept and consulted by an appointed jury commissioner, in Hallinan's time an official of the railway, and he fought against this system for years before state law made the voter rolls the sole source of jurors.

Hallinan's years as a lawyer led to his selection in 1949, with a partner Roy McInnis, to defend Harry Bridges of the ILWU on perjury charges arising from accusations that he had once been a Communist but had denied it.

After the trial, Hallinan spent six months in prison for a contempt citation during the high profile Bridges trial. He was subsequently disbarred by the State Bar of California but fought his way back into the bar after he got out of McNeil Island prison for contempt of court in the Bridges case.

Hallinan ran for President of the United States in the 1952 election, as the candidate for Henry Wallace’s Progressive Party and was the third highest polling candidate in the election.

He and his wife Vivian were indicted on 14 counts of tax evasion. Vincent was convicted on five counts and was fined $622,000 and served to 18 months in federal prison in his second federal prison term, after he reported only 20% of his income from 1947 to 1950. Vivian was acquitted.

In his 1963 autobiography, Hallinan claimed that he was prosecuted by the IRS for his political views, and that the government did not differentiate between tax avoidance (legal) and tax evasion. Also in his autobiography he argued for prison reform, against laws forbidding private consensual sex, contraception and abortion, he argued in favor of treating drug addiction as a medical condition and providing clean maintenance drugs to addicts, legalizing prostitution and against imperialism and American foreign policy.

Vincent Hallinan is the father of writer Conn M. Hallinan, San Francisco attorney Patrick Hallinan, and politician Terence Hallinan.

Vincent Hallinan

2009-03-16T03:58:00Z

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'''Vincent Hallinan'''

(December 16, 1896 - October 2, 1992) was an American lawyer and candidate for President of the United States for the Progressive Party in the 1952 election.

Hallinan was born into a large immigrant Irish-Catholic family and raised in San Francisco and Petaluma, California. His father Patrick was said to be a member of the Irish National Invincibles, a revolutionary organization that, among other activities, was reputed to have assassinated the Lord Mayor of Dublin and his secretary in 1881, the infamous Phoenix Park Murders, who then fled to the U.S. The elder Hallinan became a streetcar conductor in San Francisco, and was one of the leaders of the Great Front Strike of 1899-1900.

Trained by Jesuits in high school, Vincent passed the California Bar at the age of 22 after studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Career in law and politics

His early successes in court included personal injury actions against the powerful Market Street Railway Company which ran most of the trolley lines on the streets of San Francisco and was a subsidiary of northern California rail interests. The rail company also owned the system whereby jurors' lists were kept and consulted by an appointed jury commissioner, in Hallinan's time an official of the railway, and he fought against this system for years before state law made the voter rolls the sole source of jurors.

Hallinan's years as a lawyer led to his selection in 1949, with a partner Roy McInnis, to defend Harry Bridges of the ILWU on perjury charges arising from accusations that he had once been a Communist but had denied it.

After the trial, Hallinan spent six months in prison for a contempt citation during the high profile Bridges trial. He was subsequently disbarred by the State Bar of California but fought his way back into the bar after he got out of McNeil Island prison for contempt of court in the Bridges case.

Hallinan ran for President of the United States in the 1952 election, as the candidate for Henry Wallace’s Progressive Party and was the third highest polling candidate in the election.

He and his wife Vivian were indicted on 14 counts of tax evasion. Vincent was convicted on five counts and was fined $622,000 and served to 18 months in federal prison in his second federal prison term, after he reported only 20% of his income from 1947 to 1950.[3] Vivian was acquitted.

In his 1963 autobiography, Hallinan claimed that he was prosecuted by the IRS for his political views, and that the government did not differentiate between tax avoidance (legal) and tax evasion. Also in his autobiography he argued for prison reform, against laws forbidding private consensual sex, contraception and abortion, he argued in favor of treating drug addiction as a medical condition and providing clean maintenance drugs to addicts, legalizing prostitution and against imperialism and American foreign policy.

Vincent Hallinan is the father of writer Conn M. Hallinan, San Francisco attorney Patrick Hallinan, and politician Terence Hallinan.

India Basin

2009-03-16T03:56:17Z

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''' Unfinished History '''

[[Image:bayvwhp$india-basin-1920s-view.jpg]]

'''1920 view north from Hunter's Point Ridge over [[India Basin|India Basin]], [[Shipyards in Decay--1996 | Union Iron Works]], Spreckel's sugar refinery, PG&E oil burning steam powered electrical generating facilities below Potrero Hill in the distance. [[Islais Creek]]''' waters below.

''Photo: Greg Gaar Collection, San Francisco, CA''

[[Image:bayvwhp$beached-in-india-basin.jpg]]

'''India Basin Shipyards pictured in 1928'''

''Photo: Greg Gaar Collection, San Francisco, CA''

[[Image:bayvwhp$india-basin-park-1996.jpg]]

'''[[menu_icon |India Basin]], pictured here in 1996, where a park was carved out of the industrial shoreline just north of Hunter's Point. '''

''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

[[Image:India-basin-park0907.jpg]]

'''The India Basin park seen in 2005, mudflats and native plants beginning to fill the surrounding waters.'''

''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

[[Image:India_basin_powerplant1505.jpg]]

'''The [[India Basin and the Southeast Bayshore |southeastern shoreline]] is also home to a number of indigenous plants and a restored habitat.'''

''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

[[Image:India-basin-power-skyline15.jpg]]

'''The [[Hunters Point Mid-1990s|PG&E Hunter's Point power plant]], finally shut down after years of community pressure, on the shoreline in 2007 prior to its deconstruction.'''

''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

[[Image:Shoreline-tour-button.jpg]] [[India Basin and the Southeast Bayshore|--> Shoreline Tour]]

[[Yosemite Creek |Prev. Document]] [[India Basin and the Southeast Bayshore | Next Document]]

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India Basin

2009-03-16T03:55:29Z

Hchapot:

''' Unfinished History '''

[[Image:bayvwhp$india-basin-1920s-view.jpg]]

'''1920 view north from Hunter's Point Ridge over [[India Basin|India Basin]], [[Shipyards in Decay--1996 | Union Iron Works]], Spreckel's sugar refinery, PG&E oil burning steam powered electrical generating facilities below Potrero Hill in the distance. [[Islais Creek]] waters in the foreground]]'''

''Photo: Greg Gaar Collection, San Francisco, CA''

[[Image:bayvwhp$beached-in-india-basin.jpg]]

'''India Basin Shipyards pictured in 1928'''

''Photo: Greg Gaar Collection, San Francisco, CA''

[[Image:bayvwhp$india-basin-park-1996.jpg]]

'''[[menu_icon |India Basin]], pictured here in 1996, where a park was carved out of the industrial shoreline just north of Hunter's Point. '''

''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

[[Image:India-basin-park0907.jpg]]

'''The India Basin park seen in 2005, mudflats and native plants beginning to fill the surrounding waters.'''

''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

[[Image:India_basin_powerplant1505.jpg]]

'''The [[India Basin and the Southeast Bayshore |southeastern shoreline]] is also home to a number of indigenous plants and a restored habitat.'''

''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

[[Image:India-basin-power-skyline15.jpg]]

'''The [[Hunters Point Mid-1990s|PG&E Hunter's Point power plant]], finally shut down after years of community pressure, on the shoreline in 2007 prior to its deconstruction.'''

''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

[[Image:Shoreline-tour-button.jpg]] [[India Basin and the Southeast Bayshore|--> Shoreline Tour]]

[[Yosemite Creek |Prev. Document]] [[India Basin and the Southeast Bayshore | Next Document]]

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Vincent Hallinan

2009-03-16T03:41:34Z

Hchapot: New page: '''Vincent Hallinan''' (December 16, 1896 - October 2, 1992) was an American lawyer and candidate for President of the United States for the Progressive Party in the 1952 election. Halli...

'''Vincent Hallinan'''

(December 16, 1896 - October 2, 1992) was an American lawyer and candidate for President of the United States for the Progressive Party in the 1952 election.

Hallinan was born into a large immigrant Irish-Catholic family and raised in San Francisco and Petaluma, California. His father Patrick was said to be a member of the Irish National Invincibles, a revolutionary organization that, among other activities, was reputed to have assassinated the Lord Mayor of Dublin and his secretary in 1881, the infamous Phoenix Park Murders, who then fled to the U.S. The elder Hallinan became a streetcar conductor in San Francisco, and was one of the leaders of the Great Front Strike of 1899-1900.[1]

Trained by Jesuits in high school,[2], Vincent passed the California Bar at the age of 22 after studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Career in law and politics

His early successes in court included personal injury actions against the powerful Market Street Railway Company which ran most of the trolley lines on the streets of San Francisco and was a subsidiary of northern California rail interests. The rail company also owned the system whereby jurors' lists were kept and consulted by an appointed jury commissioner, in Hallinan's time an official of the railway, and he fought against this system for years before state law made the voter rolls the sole source of jurors.

Hallinan's years as a lawyer led to his selection in 1949, with a partner Roy McInnis, to defend Harry Bridges of the ILWU on perjury charges arising from accusations that he had once been a Communist but had denied it.

After the trial, Hallinan spent six months in prison for a contempt citation during the high profile Bridges trial. He was subsequently disbarred by the State Bar of California but fought his way back into the bar after he got out of McNeil Island prison for contempt of court in the Bridges case.

Hallinan ran for President of the United States in the 1952 election, as the candidate for Henry Wallace’s Progressive Party and was the third highest polling candidate in the election.

He and his wife Vivian were indicted on 14 counts of tax evasion. Vincent was convicted on five counts and was fined $622,000 and served to 18 months in federal prison in his second federal prison term, after he reported only 20% of his income from 1947 to 1950.[3] Vivian was acquitted.

In his 1963 autobiography, Hallinan claimed that he was prosecuted by the IRS for his political views, and that the government did not differentiate between tax avoidance (legal) and tax evasion. Also in his autobiography he argued for prison reform, against laws forbidding private consensual sex, contraception and abortion, he argued in favor of treating drug addiction as a medical condition and providing clean maintenance drugs to addicts, legalizing prostitution and against imperialism and American foreign policy. [2].

Vincent Hallinan is the father of writer Conn M. Hallinan, San Francisco attorney Patrick Hallinan, and politician Terence Hallinan.

User:Hchapot

2009-03-15T22:11:12Z

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User:Hchapot

2009-03-15T22:05:28Z

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Hank Chapot

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Talk:Los Siete

2009-03-15T21:59:48Z

Hchapot: talk

Reposted from my article on wikipedia. Written from contemporary news accounts.

Los Siete

2009-03-15T21:58:27Z

Hchapot: I reworked it a bit, but this is my article from wikipedia - hc

''' Unfinished History '''

[[Image:bastaya$los-siete-de-la-raza.jpg]]

'''[[LOS SIETE DE LA RAZA | Los Siete de la Raza ]] with attorney Charles Garry'''

A fat Irish cop in the Mission sees three Latin kids standing with a TV near a car. Pulls out his gun and says you're under arrest. Allegedly, they pull out a gun and shoot him. Los Siete, the seven, they are tried, there's a defense committee formed, the Committee to Defend the 7, these are young latin kids.

Out of that rose Centro Legal La Raza, and the La Raza Cultural Center, which very quickly gets involved with another phenomenon occurring in the Mission, which is a little but more professional, a little bit more Alinskyesque and it's a thing called [[The Truth Behind MCO: Model Cities--End of the Mission|Mission Coalition Organization (MCO)]]. It's thought by many community activists of the left persuasion to be CIA counter-insurgency, because of the connection with the Stanford Research Institute, which happened to be doing research into counterinsurgency techniques in Vietnam. Point being, plans are afoot, it turns out, not paranoia, real, to make the Mission a redevelopment area. The MCO moved by the now organized and mobilized Latin community around the Seven, says “absolutely not. No. No redevelopment in the Mission. Stop Redevelopment in the Mission.”

(from Calvin Welch at New College)

'''Los Siete de la Raza''' was the label given to seven Mission District San Francisco California young men, approached by two plainclothes policemen while alleged to have been moving a stereo or TV into a house at 429-433 Alvarado street on May 1, 1969 at around 10:30 a.m. The altercation left one officer, Joe Brodnik, dead from a gunshot wound from the other officer's weapon. When police descended on the crime scene, they entered the house and fired automatic rifles into the second story ceiling in the assumption the suspects were hiding in the attic,[citation needed] after which they flooded the building with tear gas as a helicopter hovered overhead; they sent a fire truck ladder up to the roof to facilitate the search while officer Brodnik's corpse lay untended on the sidewalk (local press reports).

In Santa Cruz, seven youths were arrested for murder of SFPD undercover officer Brodnik and attempted murder of partner Paul McGoran, and burglary. They were defended by the activist lawyers Charles Garry and Richard Hodge and written up by the left press, including [[Ramparts Magazine]]. The young latinos included four Salvadorans, one Nicaraguan, and one Honduran, some of whom had been involved in the youth group, the Mission Rebels (founded in 1965), and later in pan-Latino organizations such as COBRA (Confederation of Brown Race for Action) at the College of San Mateo, and the Brown Berets.

The trial began in late June 1970. Officer McGoran testified that they approached the youths and lined them up, then he struck one in the face and was jumped by "more than one assailant". The last thing he claimed under oath was hearing Brodnik shout, "look out Paul, he's got your gun". The defense said McGoran pulled his gun and shot Brodnik in the struggle, and brought forth witnesses to testify to his (and Brodnik's) excessive use of force in previous incidents. McGoran denied ever having pulled out his gun. After a trial that lasted a year and a half, the seven, (Gary Lescallett, Daniel Melendez, Jose Rios, Rudolpho Martinez, Jose Martinez, Danillo Melendez, Mario Lopez), were acquitted.

The “Los Siete” Defense Committee was housed near 24th and South Van Ness. The Defense Committee raised support for the seven Mission District youths accused of shooting officer Brodnik and found assistance from the Black Panther Party. The La Raza Information Center began operating in the summer of 1970 in the vacant storefront next to “Los Siete.” The latter was running many programs, including Centro de Salud, a free breakfast program, a community newspaper, and the main program, the “Los Siete” Defense Committee.

(From Hank Chapot - working on wikipedia)

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The photo at the bottom is not Union Iron works. It is the office building built by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, designed by F. Meyers in 1917, after UIW was absorbed by the shipbuilding combine

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