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Stephen Mitchell Bingham (born April 23, 1942) is an American legal services and civil rights attorney who was tried and acquitted in 1986 for his alleged role in Black Panther George Jackson's attempted escape fifteen years earlier from San Quentin State Prison in Marin County, California, in 1971. ==Early life and education== Stephen Bingham, the son of Alfred Mitchell Bingham and Sylvia Doughty Knox Bingham, was raised in Salem, Connecticut where he was reported to have grown-up among the state's wealthy class. His father was an author, attorney, and activist who was elected to the Connecticut State Senate as a New Deal Democrat in 1940 and served one term; he was also the editor and a founder of the left-leaning ''Common Sense''.〔 His grandfather, Hiram Bingham III was a governor and a U.S. Senator from Connecticut as well as the discoverer of the Machu Picchu ruins in Peru.〔 Bingham graduated from Milton Academy in 1960, where he was captain of the track team. He attended Yale University, where he participated on the freshman track and the varsity cross country teams.〔 Bingham became involved in politics during his sophomore year, and was reportedly influenced by Allard Lowenstein.〔 He was a member of the Yale Young Democrats and the Student Advisor Board, as well as the executive editor of the ''Yale Daily News''.〔 In 1964, he graduated from Yale with honors, and spent two months in Mileston, Mississippi as a volunteer in the Freedom Summer civil rights project.〔 Bingham decided to pursue a career in law and attended the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley.〔〔 During his first year, he married Gretchen Spreckels, the granddaughter of Adolph B. Spreckels and whose family founded the Spreckels Sugar Company, after a six-month relationship.〔〔 The couple joined the Peace Corps and were assigned to Sierra Leone.〔 After spending two years in West Africa with the Peace Corps, they returned to Berkeley in the fall of 1967 where Bingham resumed the study of law.〔〔 In 1969, he received a J.D. degree from Berkeley.〔 He was admitted to the California bar in January 1970.〔 The couple divorced prior to November, 1971.〔 He marched for Cesar Chavez as well as with the Congress of Racial Equality in Mississippi, he was an intern in the United States Congress and the United States Department of Justice, and he worked for Berkeley Neighborhood Legal Services.〔 Bingham worked as part of a San Francisco Bay Area group that provided legal help to inmates.〔 Bingham worked on Robert F. Kennedy's presidential campaign in 1968.〔 Bingham participated in Freedom Summer in Mississippi in 1964. On his return to the United States he worked with Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers, and in 1968 he worked in the presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy.〔Richard Rapaport, "Stephen Bingham, Defendant," ''This World'', Jan. 5, 1966, pp. 10-12.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stephen Bingham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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