AL3273 :: The John Harris Collection

Collection No:	AL3273
Title:	The John Harris Collection
Creator:	Inventory prepared by Esmerelda Dirks, August 2009
Origination:	SAPS Museum and the Archive at the Pretoria Central Prison
Inclusive Dates:	1964-1974
Bulk Dates:	1964
Extent:	4 outsized archival boxes
Language:	English and Afrikaans
Acquisition:	Accession Number: 09/007
Access Restrictions:	This collection is open for research
Use Restrictions:	Copyright restrictions may apply. See SAHA copyright statement for Use Restrictions.
Created:	13 April 2010
Abstract:	The collection consists of the trial records, police docket, newspaper clippings as well as the prison file. John Harris, a member of the African Resistance Movement (ARM), was sentenced to death and was executed in 1965 after detonating a bomb at the Johannesburg station on 24 July 1964 as an act of defiance against the apartheid regime in South Africa.