Doherty Joseph P Patrick (1 results)
Language: English
Published by n.p., New York, 1989
Seller: Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB, East Jewett, NY, U.S.A.Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Folded once else very good. 2 pp. On a single sheet of letter size paper, 2 sides, headed Joseph P. Doherty, written in the Tombs [Metropolitan Correction Center] requesting help to overturn Attorney General Richard Thornburgh's decision to ignore the BIA and order Doherty's extradition. A facsimile copy with reproduc…ed signature. Joseph Patrick Doherty was a member of the Irish Republican Army who spent nearly nine years in the NYC's "The Tombs") while fighting his extradition to the U.K. in a case that went to the Supreme Court. Despite public opinion in his favor, fund-raising concerts, the timely release of Nelson Mandela, and John Cardinal O'Connor asking the Bush Administration to grant a hearing for political asylum, he was extradited in 1992. New York City later named a street corner after him.