Death Row Breakout and Other Stories by Edward Bunker

Author:Edward Bunker [Bunker, Edward]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Crime, Mystery & Detective, General, Fiction
ISBN: 9781842437636
Google: eu4A2iK1tz8C
Publisher: Oldcastle Books
Published: 2009-01-01T22:00:00+00:00

San Francisco and Berkeley combined to make the most liberal and radical community in America. The constituency of San Francisco was the only one in California to vote in favor of pot and against the death penalty. The politics ranged from Yellow Dog Democrats at the conservative edge to straight-out revolutionary guerillas on the other. It was fertile ground for a Defense Committee and a Defense Fund, which Sally’s husband seeded with a $500 check. She knew a reporter for the Chronicle, and a black organizer of the Students Union; and San Francisco in the late sixties was conducive to the reaction.

Sally also visited Eddie’s mother, a strong black woman with younger sons, Charles and William, who she feared might follow their older brother. Most likely it would be William. He was sixteen and read whatever Eddie told him. Eddie could write, he could convince her but, right or wrong, he was going to be destroyed. “No, they won’t let him get away,” said his mother with anguish in her voice. She brought out a packet of letters Eddie had written and, after Sally had read a paragraph or two, she said, “Let me take these. I’ll get them back to you. I think they will get us sympathetic attention, and money for the defense.”

“If they’ll help, take ’em.”

Sally read many of them in the hotel room and during the short flight to San Francisco. Before Sally entered her front door, Eddie’s letters were represented by a good literary agent, who would come up with the idea of asking William Styron to write an introduction, which proved a great idea and inclined reviewers and critics to take the work seriously. It needed editing, but so does the work of many acclaimed authors. Despite some spelling and grammatical errors, the letters were a powerful exploration of a strong-willed young black man trying to formulate a view of the world that fit the realities of his existence. Sally was sure that the letters would arouse a tide of sympathy.

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