"FREE CHOL SOO LEE" MURDER CONVICTION 1978 PROTEST BUTTON.
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011 1:00:00 AM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Wednesday, November 9, 2011 1:00:00 AM)
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Auction #204 - Part I
Item numbers 1 through 1446 in auction 204
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Item Description
1.75" with symbolic art work showing a crane with shackles around the feet. This button is from the Levin Collection and has his paper insert on the reverse reading "A Korean Accused Of Murder & Being A Gang Leader. 1978." Lee was a Korean American immigrant wrongly convicted for a 1973 killing of a San Fransisco Chinatown gang leader. While in prison he was also sentenced to death for the self defense killing of another prisoner. He spent ten years in prison for a crime he did not commit, eight of those on death row. An investigative reporter K.W. Lee formed a Defense Committee on his behalf and with that help he won his freedom in 1983. Mint. Comes with Hake's COA. Rare.
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