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On this day July 20, 1979

Leonard Peltier escapes from Lompoc prison

Leonard Peltier
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Leonard Peltier was an organizer with the American Indian Movement. In the early 1970s he was dispatched along with other AIM activists to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to investigate allegations...
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Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier escaped from Lompoc Federal Correctional Institution in California. Peltier was a leader in the American Indian Movement and was convicted in 1977 of killing two FBI agents.

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