...hijacked a plane from Detroit to Algeria in 1972 with their two babies on board...called it an act of political resistance...an act of desperation committed by two people in their early twenties who saw no other way to escape what they felt was the constant state of racial oppression in America. Living in Paris for forty years after the hijacking and unable to return to the US, Melvin and Jean are still coming to terms with their act of crime...
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