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John Lee Brook is the pen-name of a writer based in Northern California. He is the author of two true crime books, and is currently putting the finishing touches on Blood In, Blood Out: The Violent Empire of the Aryan Brotherhood. His next project is a book about Dr. Curtis Howe Springer, tentatively titled King of Quacks: Salvation and Snake Oil in the California Desert.
John Lee Brook
Blood In, Blood Out: The Violent Empire of the Aryan Brotherhood
by The Aryan Brotherhood: The First Woe
January 16, 1967: Nazi prison-gang associate Robert Holderman was stabbed and then battered to death by Black Guerilla Family gang members at San Quentin.
January 17, 1967: 1,800 black inmates and 1,000 white inmates clashed on the main yard at San Quentin over the death of Robert Holderman. Prison guards broke up the brawl by firing shots into the mass. Five inmates were wounded by the shots. One inmate suffered severe head trauma from the beating he received from opposing gang members. Two other inmates suffered non-fatal heart attacks.
August 27, 1967: Nineteen-year-old Barry Byron Mills was arrested in Ventura, California and held for transfer to Sonoma County, where he had boosted a car. Sonoma had issued an arrest warrant in his name for grand theft auto.
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