Campaign for Release from Pentridge Prison of Bill O'Meally: During the mid-1970s, I was active in a campaign for the release from prison of Victoria's longest serving inmate, Bill O'Meally, who had been gaoled in the early 1950s for the murder of a policeman. The material includes: photocopy of lengthy handwritten plea of innocence by O'Meally, poem written by another inmate about O'Meally and sent to me by O'Meally, various newspaper clippings and articles on the campaign, and original copies of a petition supporting O'Meally's release signed by officials of 21 trade unions, etc, 1976-1978
- Containers:
- Box 3 (MS 6947)
- Component identifier:
- File 5
- Content Summary:
- (one folder)
Access and use
- Parent Restrictions:
- Please refer to the collection's catalogue record (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1970607) for the access conditions.
- Parent Terms of Access:
- Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
- Location of this collection:
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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