Long time gone
Subtitle: a Black Panther's true-life story of his skyjacking and twenty-five years in Cuba
By: William Lee Brent.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Times Books
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; ang
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Brent, William Lee, 1930- -- Homes and haunts -- Cuba.; Black Panther Party -- Biography.; African Americans -- Biography.; Hijacking of aircraft -- Cuba.; Hijacking of aircraft -- United States.; Black power -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; African Americans -- Cuba -- Biography.; Cuba -- Social conditions -- 1959-
Genres: Biography.
Description: For more than twenty-five years, ever since he hijacked TWA Flight 151 in June of 1969 from Oakland, California, to Havana, Cuba, William Lee Brent has lived in Castro's Cuba. Long Time Gone is the unique memoir of a former high-ranking Black Panther (and ex-bodyguard to Eldridge Cleaver) who fled his native land to avoid standing trial on charges stemming from a shootout with the San Francisco police. With the publication of this book, Brent breaks his silence of a quarter century.