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Jimmy Eagle

Released
Gender:Male
Race:Native American
Era:1970s
State:South Dakota
Support
American Indian Movement
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Biography

Young Oglala man indicted with Leonard Peltier in the June 1975 Pine Ridge FBI-agent deaths case; The Black Panther Vol. 15 no.11 (1976). The charges against him were later dropped.

The COINTELPRO Papers separately reports Eagle’s assault conviction and six-year sentence, followed by parole in mid-1977; the FBI-agent murder charges were dropped.

Source report, PDF 1144, pages 673.

Cases

Charges: Murder of two FBI agents (indicted)
Sentence: Young Oglala man indicted with Leonard Peltier in the June 1975 Pine Ridge FBI-agent deaths case; the charges against him were later dropped.
Convicted: No
Charges: Assault upon James Catches
Sentence: Six-year sentence; the source reports parole in mid-1977.
Convicted: Yes