William Lee Brent

Long Time Gone : a Black Panther's True-life Story of His Hijacking and Twenty-five Years in Cuba William Lee Brent

For more than twenty-five years, ever since he hijacked TWA flight 151 in June of 1969 from Oakland, California to Havana, Cuba, William Lee Brent has lived in Castro's Cuba. Long Time Gone is the unique memoir of a former high-ranking Black Panther (and ex-bodyguard to Eldridge Cleaver) who fled his native land to avoid standing trial on charges stemming from a shootout with the San Francisco police. With the publication of this book, Brent breaks his silence of a quarter century. "Bill Brent's Long Time Gone is a powerful testimony to the triumph of the human spirit. It tells an important and previously untold story." David Hilliard, former chief of staff, Black Panther Party, and author of This Side of Glory