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Sam Whiting February 3, 2021Updated: February 4, 2021, 2:44 pm
Along Jeff Adachi Way near the San Francisco Hall of Justice, public defender Mano Raju holds a photo carried in the vigil for the late public defender. Photo: Santiago Mejia, The Chronicle
Santhosh Daniel was running the Global Film Initiative when he got a call out of the blue from San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, who was a documentary filmmaker on the side. Adachi wanted to talk about his idea to create a series of films that broke down the whole process of legal defense for people who cannot afford any other kind.
Scott Thomas Anderson January 27, 2021Updated: January 31, 2021, 7:06 pm
Ambrose Bierce was a San Francisco journalist in the late 19th century. His “The Devil’s Dictionary” codified the template for a satirical dictionary. Photo: Bancroft Library
On a summer night in 1870, Ambrose Bierce began a newspaper column about a corpse discovered in an alley of Chinatown.
“The body was found partially concealed under a paving-stone which imbedded in the head,” he jotted for the San Francisco News Letter. “A crowbar was driven through the abdomen and one arm was riven from its socket by some great convulsion of nature.”
Writing with a human skull on his desk, Bierce ended the report with, “it is supposed he came to his death by heart disease.”