Murdered by Mumia or Vision for 2012

Murdered by Mumia: A Life Sentence of Loss, Pain, and Injustice

Author: Maureen Faulkner

Maureen Faulkner's husband, Philadelphia police office Danny Faulkner, was shot between the eyes on a cold December night in 1981. Mumia Abu-Jamal was unanimously convicted of the crime by a racially mixed jury based on: the testimony of several eyewitnesses, his ownership of the murder weapon, matching ballistics, and Abu-Jamal's own confession.
After his conviction, however, a national anti-death penalty movement was started to "Free Mumia;" Mike Farrell, Ed Asner, Whoopi Goldberg, and Jesse Jackson rallied on his behalf, and led the charge. For his part, while on death row, Abu-Jamal published several books, delivered radio commentaries, was a college commencement speaker, found himself named an Honorary Citizen of France, and had his defense coffers enhanced by ticket sales from a sold out (16,000-person) concert featuring Rage Against the Machine.
Here, from Maureen Faulkner and acclaimed talk show host / journalist Michael Smerconish, is the first book to carefully and definitively lay out the case against Abu-Jamal, and those who've elevated him to the status of political prisoner. Smerconish, a lawyer, has provided pro bono legal counsel to Faulkner for over a decade and knows both the legal intricacies and personal subtleties of the case like no other person. He's personally acquainted himself with the more than five thousand pages of trial transcript. "My reading starkly revealed that Abu-Jamal murdered Danny Faulkner in cold blood and that the case tried in Philadelphia in 1982 bore no resemblance to the one being home-cooked by the Abu-Jamal defense team."
As Abu-Jamal's lawyers contemplate their final appeal, Faulkner and Smerconish weave a compelling,never-before-told account of one fateful night and the 25-year-long rewriting of history.

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"This is a harrowing book, told with uncommon grace and dignity. Maureen Faulkner is an incredible woman. The story she tells, of being denied for more than a quarter century the dignity of burying her police officer husband in peace, is even more incredible."--(Buzz Bissinger - Author of Friday Night Lights)

Table of Contents:

Foreword   Michael A. Smerconish, Esq.     vii
The Premonition     1
The Knock     4
With His Boots On     17
Facts     22
Spin     26
The Trial     29
Danny and Me     50
Time To Rebuild     67
The Yale Law Journal     72
Radio Waves     78
Harrisburg     87
Tom Snyder     94
Murderer's Manuscript     97
Washington     101
California Dreamin'     106
Paul     109
Tom Ridge     119
Hollywood and the New York Times     121
The 1995 PCRA Hearing     129
American Lawyer Magazine     148
The Bruderhof     161
HBO     167
The 1996 PCRA Hearing     179
Temple Radio     189
Santa Cruz     192
The 1997 PCRA Hearing     198
A San Francisco Treat     203
KGO-TV     207
The New York Times Ad for Danny     216
Hollywood's Unlikely Hero     223
The Oakland Teach-In     233
Rage Against the Machine     235
Mumia Money     241
Philip Bloch     246
Amor Patriae Ducit     252
Hog Wild     257
Back to School     260
Cheesesteaks and Joey Vento     264
Berkeley Book Burning     267
Gerald Nicosia     270
Judge Yohn's Decision     272
The French     277
The O'Reilly Factor     283
Tookie and the Terminator     287
Twenty-fifth Anniversary: Gone but Never Forgotten     290
Acknowledgments     302
Appendix     307
Endnotes     321
Index     341

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Vision for 2012: Planning for Extraordinary Global Change

Author: Petersen

Many believe that the world is entering a time of monumental historic change that will accelerate between now and 2012. Our leaders need to be prepared to address life-altering events such as a rapid climate change, a severe restriction of the oil supply, a tipping point in the global financial system, a bird flu epidemic, or a new level of sophistication among terrorists, argues noted futurist John Petersen in this timely and insightful essay. Finding America's Future shows how the effectiveness of the new administration that takes office in 2009, and the future of the nation, depends upon whether our leaders grasp the extraordinary significance of what lies ahead.