Biography
San Quentin prisoner on trial for allegedly assaulting a guard when Jonathan Jackson entered the Marin County courtroom on Aug. 7, 1970; killed in the ensuing shootout with prison guards. The Black Panther Vol. 17 no.9 (1977).
Death-date corroboration
The February 1975 issue of Inside-Out identifies James McClain among those killed during the August 7, 1970 Marin County courthouse incident. This corroborates the date already stated in his biography and now fills the previously empty death-date field. The newsletter does not establish when his earlier imprisonment began; no admission date or duration is inferred.
The Magee mistrial account names James McClain and William Christmas among those killed in the August 7, 1970 Marin courthouse escape attempt and identifies Magee as the surviving inmate. Its account attributes the killings to prison guards; that attribution is retained as the newspaper’s description, without assigning new physical endpoints or altering separately established cases.
Washington Area Spark, Vol. 2 No. 9, April 13–May 11, 1973, PDF page 11.
The state report’s escape appendix individually names him among the Marin County prisoners and describes the courthouse confrontation. It incorrectly heads the event September 7, 1970; that date is not used to overwrite an independently established chronology. Jonathan Jackson’s presence in the same narrative does not establish that Jackson was already a prisoner. The appendix is a retrospective law-enforcement account.
Report of the New York State Policy Study Group on Terrorism, November 1985, PDF page 83.
