Live from Death Row

Live from Death Row, published in May of 1995, is a collection of memoirs by American death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal. Given a $30,000 advance by Addison-Wesley, an action resulting in Maureen Faulkner, Daniel Faulkner's widow, hiring a plane to fly over the company's headquarters trailing a banner that read "Addison-Wesley Supports a Cop Killer", an invocation of Pennsylvania's Son of Sam law, and a promoted boycott of Addison-Wesley by the Fraternal Order of Police, Abu-Jamal's essays were finally published after National Public Radio backed out of an agreement, due to pressure from the Fraternal Order of Police and Senator Bob Dole, to broadcast his writings on All Things Considered, an act he referenced with the title of his 2000 book All Things Censored.

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American - Death row - Mumia Abu-Jamal - Addison-Wesley - Daniel Faulkner - Pennsylvania - Son of Sam law - Fraternal Order of Police - National Public Radio - Bob Dole - All Things Considered - All Things Censored

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