A Double Life | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer
The grim news made international headlines: On August 21, 1971, prison authorities discovered a gun on famed Soledad Bro | dG1fSmQ0RHhHb1RmcGM
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00:00 Steve was my favorite uncle. In 1971, when I was 8 years old, Steve suddenly disappeared from our lives.
00:11 No one seems to know where Stephen Bingham is yet, but today he was charged with murder.
00:16 His grandfather was governor of Connecticut once and a U.S. senator, and 28-year-old Stephen became the lawyer who last saw the late George Jackson at San Quentin.
00:26 He was working with George Jackson, who was a high-level target because he was organizing in the prisons.
00:33 Steve gets swept up into that and becomes a target himself.
00:37 It was a counterintelligence operation to get George Jackson killed.
00:41 Three white guards and two white inmates were killed. Their throats slit.
00:46 The warden's investigators suspect a male visitor who saw Jackson early yesterday somehow concealed the weapon and passed it to Jackson.
00:55 Steve was there that day. He visited George, and the spotlight turned on him.
01:02 There is no way Jackson could have obtained the death gun except during his visit with attorney Stephen Bingham.
01:19 No way was this an escape attempt on this day, and it is not an exaggeration to say if he went to prison, his life was in true danger.
01:30 You have to recall, I mean, we were living during a period where people were being killed all the time.
01:37 This is the president of the United States of America talking about killing and murdering us.
01:42 Soon after he disappeared, the FBI started coming to my door.
01:49 And then I get a phone call from Steve saying that there's some connection with him and he needed help.
02:00 And so I contacted this woman, and she produced a set of identification for Steve.
02:08 He didn't talk about what happened, and I didn't ask. And then he left.
02:14 I had to invent an entire identity. An identity is not just a name and a picture and a passport. It's like, who am I?
02:24 Why did he do this? Why did he leave?
02:27 There were people in the family that at least say that they never entertained for an instant that you could be guilty.
02:35 I was not one of them.
02:38 On the advice of his attorney, Bingham declined to say where he's been living or what he's been doing the past 13 years.
02:46 Nearly 13 years later, he is ready to stop running.
02:50 A lawyer and a member of a wealthy and politically prominent Connecticut family reappeared today after 13 years on the run from the law.
03:02 Today, I return to clear myself of these charges and to begin to pick up the threads of a life interrupted many years ago.
03:13 The attack on Steve was an attack on all the radical lawyers that were helping prisoners.
03:19 Steve's decision to disappear was not an inference that he was guilty, but was in fact a decision to try to save his life.
03:28 We the jury in the above entitled case find the defendant Stephen Mitchell Bingham.
03:34 [Gunshot]
03:39 (gunshot)