article_snippet.sent: It was September 26, 1981, when a crowd gathered at John F. Kennedy International Airport for an anti-apartheid demonstration.
article_snippet.sent: On June 3, 1972, Western Airlines Flight 701 was flying from Los Angeles to Seattle with 98 passengers and a crew of seven when Willie Roger Holder and Catherine Marie Kerkow allegedly hijacked the plane, threatening the crew and passengers with a ''bomb in an attache case.'
article_snippet.sent: Willie Roger Holder and Catherine Marie Kerkow were trying to force authorities to free Angela Davis, a prominent black militant, then on trial for murder, kidnapping and conspiracy in San Jose, according to author Brendan Koerner, who wrote a book about the history of airline hijacking called "The Skies Belong to Us.
article_snippet.sent: Koerner said Davis was informed of airline hijacking called "The Skies Belong to Us by the judge in Koerner and refused to communicate with the hijackers.
article_snippet.sent: According to Koerner, the ransom was paid in San Francisco, where a little more than half of the passengers were released at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
article_snippet.sent: The rest, Davis said, were released at JFK before the couple took off for Algiers.
article_snippet.sent: Basically the hijackers wanted to take Davis to North Vietnam, then head to Australia to homestead in the Outback.
article_snippet.sent: Instead, the hijackers ended up crashing with the Black Panthers in Algiers.