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- Frank Smith was locked up for eight decades, likely longer than anyone alive.
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Jul 5, 2023 · GLOBE MAGAZINE. Frank Smith was locked up for eight decades. At 98, what would it mean to be free? Likely the longest-serving prisoner in America, he’s been paroled into a Connecticut nursing...
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Aug 22, 2023 · Annalisa Quinn | The Boston Globe Magazine | July 5, 2023 | 4,693 words. by Seyward Darby August 22, 2023. He’s likely the longest-serving prisoner in the United States. The state of Connecticut tried to execute him eight times.
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Frank Smith was locked up for eight decades. At 98, what would it mean to be free? - The Boston Globe
Dec 13, 2004 · Frank Smith. Biography. Commentator, civil rights activist, politician, and speaker Frank Smith, Jr. was born on September 17, 1942, in Newnan, Georgia. His mother was a homemaker and his father was a farmer and truck driver. In 1959, Smith earned his high school diploma from Central High School, where he was a member of the New Farmers of ...
How did Frank Lee Smith end up on death row for a crime he didn't commit? And why was he allowed to die there despite possible evidence of his innocence?
May 18, 2016 · The 20-year-old civil rights worker had been locked up for three weeks in Greenwood, in the notoriously racist Mississippi Delta, for helping a group of blacks register to vote. “After I was...
SAM POLLARD: Why don't you just pick it up again. FRANK "BIG BLACK" SMITH: OK, the George Jackson's death, you know, the day of his death, ah, the day afterwards, you know, really, was one of the most, I guess it was gloomy just like the 13th, you know, you could see death, you could feel it, you know, everybody was in a very, very down ...