People from Grand Forks County, North Dakota: People from Grand Forks, North Dakota, Leonard Peltier, Howard Brandt, Roxana Saberi

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: People from Grand Forks, North Dakota, Leonard Peltier, Howard Brandt, Roxana Saberi, Lynn Anderson, Roger Maris, Dickie Peterson, James M. Edie, Nicole Linkletter, Monique Lamoureux-Kolls, Ryan Potulny, James Rosenquist, Tim Johnson, Gilmore Schjeldahl, Charles W. Lindberg, Liz Anderson, Ronald Davies, Jocelyne Lamoureux, Virgil Hill, Tony Fontane, List of University of North Dakota people, Brian Bohrer, Clifton Cushman, Era Bell Thompson, Kurt Zellers, Al McIntosh, Alan Ritchson, Andrew Hampsten, Arthur G. Sorlie, Ralph Engelstad, Rick Clayburgh, List of people from Grand Forks, North Dakota, Patrick J. Ballantine, Kam Heskin, Ken Hunt, Jurgen Wilson, Walter Wangerin, Jr., Jennie Shortridge, Tom Brosseau, Joseph B. DeRemer, Walter Maddock, Dale V. Sandstrom, Tim Olson, Stuart McDonald, Sally J. Smith, James D. Gronna, Andy Schneider, George T. Inkster, Fido Purpur, Natalie West, Henry Holt, George H. Walsh, Ben Clayburgh, Gary Johnson, Truck Hannah. Excerpt: Leonard Peltier (born September 12, 1944) is a Native American activist and member of the American Indian Movement (AIM). In 1977 he was convicted and sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment for first degree murder in the shooting of two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents during a 1975 conflict on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Peltier's indictment and conviction is the subject of the 1992 documentary Incident at Oglala, a film directed by Michael Apted. Peltier's supporters present him as a political prisoner, although his murder conviction has survived appeals in various courts. Amnesty International has expressed concern about the fairness of the proceedings. Numerous lawsuits have been filed on Peltier's behalf, but none has succeeded. Peltier is incarcerated at the United States Penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. His projected ...