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    Free Chol Soo Lee Shirt

    Chol Soo Lee brandishes a “Free Chol Soo Lee” T-shirt, at a 1986 party with activists in Los Angeles, California.

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    Temple Visit After Release

    Chol Soo Lee poses with supporters in Hawai‘i, 1983.

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    Chol Soo Lee Support Group

    Chol Soo Lee, flanked by his supporters, following his release from prison in 1983.

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    Chol Soo Lee Release Celebration

    Chol Soo Lee celebrates his freedom at a party, where he and his supporters also watched the 1983 KCRA news documentary about his case, Perceptions: A Question of Justice, produced by Sandra Gin and Tom Nakashima.

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    Chol Soo Lee Approached by Media After His Release

    Chol Soo Lee, pictured here facing the news media and a crowd of supporters in Stockton, California, confronted many difficulties adjusting to a “normal” life on the outside, after his release from prison in 1983.

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    Supporter outside the courtroom

    Supporters of Chol Soo Lee wait to enter the courtroom in San Francisco, 1982.

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    Jeff Adachi at Free Chol Soo Lee Rally

    Members of the Free Chol Soo Lee movement, including University of California, Berkeley, student activist Jeff Adachi (far right), protest outside San Quentin State prison, where Chol Soo Lee was on death row.

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    Immigrant Convicted of Prison Murder

    This March 13, 1979, Sacramento Union article reports the first-degree murder conviction of Chol Soo Lee that would eventually lead to a sentence of death in the gas chamber.

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    Halmeoni Holding Sign

    Two women, dressed in Korean traditional dresses, take part in a courthouse protest in Stockton, circa late 1970s.

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    “Ballad of Chol Soo Lee”

    This scene from the documentary film Free Chol Soo Lee features the protest song, “The Ballad of Chol Soo Lee,” produced by the Chol Soo Lee Defense Committee. The song is performed by Siu Wai Anderson, Sam Takimoto, Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo, Peter Yoshiro Horikoshi, Duke Santos, and Jeff Adachi.

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