Jack Olsen's Last Man Standing is the gripping story of Geronimo Pratt, war hero and community leader, who was framed by the FBI in one of the greatest travesties of justice in American history.Geronimo Pratt did not commit the murder for which he served twenty-seven nightmarish years. As a UCLA student, though, he had led the Los Angeles Chapter of the Black Panther Party, and became a target of the FBI. Here is the spellbinding saga of Pratt, his heroic lawyers, Johnnie Cochran and Stuart Hanlon, and the Reverend James McCloskey, who overcame all the odds to bring the truth to light and free Geronimo.
This study of the criminal justice system tells of a Black Panther party leader who was convicted of a 1968 murder, and who served more than 26 years in prison before his conviction was overturned on appeal.
- Genre: Freedom + Security / Law Enforcement, Social Science
- Subgenre: Ethnic Studies / African-American Studies, Civil Rights
- Publisher: Anchor Books
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Format: paperback
- Release Date: September 1, 2001
- Date Published: September 1, 2001
- Author: Jack Olsen