found: African American National Biography, accessed March 25, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Rideau, Wilbert; journalist, murderer, documentary filmmaker; born 13 February 1942 in Lawtell, Louisiana, United States; robbed the Gulf National Bank, kidnapped three of the bank's white employees and killed one of them (1961); convicted and sentenced to death (1961); his sentence was changed to life imprisonment (1973); began his own in-prison publication "The Lifer"; was appointed editor of in-prison magazine "The Angolite's", under his leadership it became a award-winning magazine (1975); established himself as a professional journalist and exposed substandard conditions in Angola prison; won the Robert F. Kennedy and George Polk awards; appeared on ABC's Nightline to discuss his work; was the narrator and co-producer of the 1990 documentary "Tossing Away the Keys"; co-directed "The Farm: Life Inside Angola Prison", a 1998 Sundance Film Festival award-winning and Oscar-nominated documentary on Angola from the point of view of six inmates; set free (2005))
