On this day, Aug. 7, 1970, California Judge Harold Haley was abducted and killed with three others during a prisoner escape attempt.
Haley, 65, was a Marin County judge presiding over the trial of James McClain, accused of stabbing a San Quentin prison guard while serving a sentence for burglary.
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