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On this date in 1955, Barbara Graham was gassed at California’s San Quentin Prison, along with two confederates in the brutal murder of an elderly widow. Following the classic sob-story vector from orphan to juvenile delinquent to petty criminal, Graham found her calling as femme fatale. She entered adulthood with World War II, and spent the war years alternating between failed marriages and the working-girl beat for Pacific military bases. “Sure, I was a prostitute — and a damn good one,” she later confided to a reporter. “Why do people make so much of sex anyway? It’s part of our...

U.S. Attorney wins conviction of 'Million Mom' activist Barbara Graham. Submitted on: November 21, 2001 http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/dc/press/01035b.html Many of you have followed the saga of Barbara Graham. She was the outspoken activist for the "Million Mom March" who, while advocating for our disarmament, used an illegally-owned "assault pistol" to shoot and paralyze an innocent man. Ms. Graham was defended all through her trial by fellow MMM activists who apparently saw no hypocrisy at all in their support of a woman who illegally possessed an unregistered TEC-9 "assault pistol" (as well as other unregistered guns) in a city where all handgun possession ...