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LAN
DO
N R
. WILLIA
MS
R
OR
Y B
. HITH
E
POLITICAL PRISONERS
TH
E B
LA
CK
PA
NT
HE
R S
AT
UR
DA
Y, JU
NE
21, 1969 PA
GE
6
Rory H
ithe and Landon W
illiams
are po
litical priso
ners h
eld in
jail in
Den
ver C
olo
rado
on
charg
es o
f un
lawfu
l fligh
t to av
oid
pro
se-cu
tion
. Th
e bro
thers w
ere arres-ted
when
fascist FB
I and D
enver
pig
s vam
ped
on
the D
env
er Black
P
anth
er Party
head
qu
arters with
guns a
nd m
achin
e g
uns. T
hese
bro
thers are h
eld in
isolatio
n cells
becau
se they
refuse to
work
, they
refu
se to su
bm
it to su
per-ex
plo
i-tatio
n w
hile th
ey are in
the fascist
jail. Th
ey are o
n a d
iet of b
read
and w
ater. They
are not allo
wed
to
the h
um
an p
rivile.:g
e of tak
ing
By elev
ating m
y co
nscio
usn
ess to
the rev
olu
tion
ary lev
el, I hav
e com
e to
realiz
e th
e fa
scism
all
aro
un
d m
e. I h
av
e c
om
e to
re-
cogn
ize the S
an Jo
aquin
Valley
fo
r the p
lan
tatio
n th
at it is. In
a sh
ow
en
. Th
ey
hav
e n
o c
om
-m
issary k
iviled
ges. T
heir fam
i-lies can
'spen
d o
nly
15
min
utes
visitin
g tim
e with
them
. That 1
5
min
utes is sp
ent talk
ing th
rough a
telephone w
hich
is partitio
ned
off
by. a glass wall.
Lan
do
n W
illiams h
as a seven
w
eek o
ld b
aby
girl w
ho
m h
e is m
ore in
terested in
than
bein
g in
a fascist co
ncen
tration
camp
. 'T
he s
pirit o
f a P
an
ther is
greater th
an th
e man
's jail.'
• DY
NA
MIT
E
world
to end colonialism!
And in
conclu
sion to
my an
al-y
sis of th
e San
Joaq
uin
Valley
and
F
resn
o, its la
rgest c
ity, I fin
d
that it is a b
oilin
g p
ot o
f racism,
Mrs
.*, c• fly
. n•n
easn
el 4
4."
ras:4
.
TO
: Landon R
obert William
s: T
he fascist p
igs th
ink th
ey'v
e tak
en y
ou
away
from
the rev
olu
-tio
n d
on
't they
? Th
ey th
ou
gh
t that
they had taken Malcolm
away, but
he's h
ere. He's h
ere in th
e teach-
ings o
f Huey P
. New
ton. T
hey
thought they had taken Huey aw
ay, b
ut h
e's here; th
e Van
gu
ard, th
e B
lack P
anth
er Party
IS H
uey
P.
New
ton
. Fo
ols, th
ey can
't see that
yo
u, "B
un
chy
", Joh
n, E
ldrid
ge,
and
all oth
er revo
lutio
naries are
all man
ifestations o
f Malco
lm an
d
Hu
ey. T
his ju
st go
es to sh
ow
the
low
level o
f intellig
ence o
f the
stup
id, fascist, cap
italistic po
wer
structu
re. Th
ose o
f yo
u (N
.Y. 2
1,
Co
nn
. 8 etc.) h
ave fo
ug
ht fo
r the
peo
ple tau
gh
t the p
eop
le and
are now
incarc
era
ted a
s politic
al
priso
ners, y
ou w
ill contin
ue d
oin
g
these th
ing
s. C
hairm
an M
ao say
s that "A
re-volutionary should have largeness of m
ind an
d h
e should
be stau
nch
an
d activ
e, lookin
g u
pon th
e in-
tere
sts of th
e re
vo
lutio
n a
s his
VE
RY
LIF
E and subordinating his
perso
nal in
terests to th
ose o
f the
revolution; AL
WA
YS
and EV
ER
Y-
WH
ER
E he should adhere to prin-
ciples and wage a T
IRE
LE
SS
strug-g
le again
st all inco
rrect ideas an
d
action
s. He sh
ou
ld b
e mo
re con
-cerned about the party and the m
as-ses th
an ab
ou
t any
ind
ivid
ual (b
e it w
ife, moth
er, child
) and m
ore
con
cerned
abo
ut o
thers th
an h
im-
self. Only
then
can h
e be co
nsi-
dered
a revo
lutio
nary
.'' Jo
hn
Hu
gg
ins, an
d A
lpren
tice "B
unch
y" C
arter and m
any o
ther
senting a UN
ITE
D F
RO
NT
against th
is ov
ert a
nd
bla
tan
tly fa
scist
country
which
only
disp
layed
a little
of its tru
e n
atu
re o
n y
ou
. S
hack
led lik
e a slave b
ou
nd
to h
is m
aster. Fu
ck th
at shit. S
hack
led
only
in b
ody, n
ot in
min
d, sp
irit nor in
soul, alw
ays a P
anth
er and
a servan
t of th
e peo
ple.
You have a 5 w
eek old daughter K
ijana M
elieke, w
ho h
as been
in-
stilled w
ith rev
olu
tionary
prin
ci-ples. T
his w
as inborn
in h
er from
re
vo
lutio
nary
pare
nts th
rou
gh
practice in
a revolu
tionary
envir-
onment. S
he was born a revolution-
ary an
d w
ill die o
ne; th
e first of
a new generation w
hose minds w
ill n
ot b
e con
ditio
ned
by
this p
ow
er stru
cture. A
counter-rev
olu
tion-
ary she cannot be. The people, and
I will not tolerate it. L
ong may she
and all others like her live to carry out th
e need
s and d
esires of th
e people.
This, a
s all th
e o
ther jiv
e a
ss b
ustsim
akes me m
ad and even more
so, makes m
e realize the desperate n
eed o
f the p
eop
le to free th
em-
selves fro
m th
is beast. A
s yo
ur
wife I say
, "I love y
ou an
d m
iss you, b
ut w
ith y
our in
carceration,
we are o
ne step
closer to
over-
thro
win
g th
is fascist regim
e. T
he R
ED
BO
OK
is my
bib
le, the G
UN
my staff.
VIC
TO
RY
TO
TH
E P
EO
PL
E!
VIC
TO
RY
IS OU
RS!
AL
L P
OW
ER
TO
TH
E P
EO
PL
E!
LO
NG
LIV
E T
HE
MIN
IST
ER
O
F D
EF
EN
SE
! O
ra William
s
OP
EN
LETTE
R:.
TO A POLITICAL PRISONER
BOILING POT OF FASCISM
By
elevatin
g m
y co
nscio
usn
ess to
the rev
olu
tionary
level, I h
ave
com
e to
realiz
e th
e fa
scism
all
aro
un
d m
e. I h
av
e c
om
e to
re-
cognize th
e San
Joaq
uin
Valley
fo
r the p
lanta
tion th
at it is. In
beco
min
g a rev
olu
tionary
, I recog-
nize who the plantation ow
ners are. T
hey
are
the ric
h fa
rmers w
ho
co
ntro
l the S
an Jo
aquin
Valley
, w
ho
hav
e argu
ed fo
r the id
ea of
industrializing the San Joaquin V
al-ley
for years. It m
ust b
e po
inted
out that the puppet politicians stood u
p fo
r the p
eo
ple
s' righ
ts on
ly
after repeated
ly b
eing rem
inded
by
the p
oo
r and
wo
rkin
g m
asses. In
accessing
this in
seeing
ho
w
these fascists h
ave n
eglected
black
peo
ple, th
eir com
mu
nity
and
, its schools, I have broken off from
this presen
t govern
men
tal system
. And
I say to
all the o
ther slav
es on th
is plan
tation, 'D
eclare yourselv
es in a
state of reb
ellion as I h
ave d
on
e. U
nite and we w
ill join with the stru-
ggle th
at is goin
g o
h aro
und th
e wo
rld to
end
colo
nialism
! A
nd in
conclu
sion to
my an
al-ysis o
f the S
an Jo
aquin
Valley
and
Fre
sno, its la
rgest c
ity, I fin
d
that it is a b
oilin
g p
ot o
f racism.
To
ms fly
arou
nd
the sh
it-smellin
g
poverty
pro
gram
s gettin
g m
oney
th
at smells w
ith th
e stench
of th
e deceit o
f the m
asses into
thin
k-
ing
they
hav
e som
ethin
g to
ho
pe
for in
the
presen
t day
go
vern
-m
ental sy
stem. T
hey
fly aro
und
these p
rogram
s like so
man
y flies
around fresh
shit. I say
this, th
e governm
ent should serve the people an
d if it d
oesn
't, off th
e go
vern
-m
ent! A
nd sin
ce the S
an Jo
aquin
Val-
ley g
reatly ex
udes all o
f the q
ual-
ities o
f fasc
ism, I sa
y it a
nd a
ll its fascist in
hab
itants sh
ould
be
dealt with by any m
eans necessary. A
LL
PO
WE
R T
O T
HE
PE
OP
LE
. D
OW
N W
ITH
TH
E L
AN
DO
WN
ER
S. D
eWayne A
, William
s, Jr. L
t. of In
form
ation, F
resno
Ch
airman
Mao
says th
at "A re-
volutionary should have largeness o
f min
d an
d h
e sho
uld
be stau
nch
an
d activ
e, lookin
g u
pon th
e in-
tere
sts of th
e re
vo
lutio
n a
s his
VE
RY
LIF
E and subordinating his
perso
nal in
terests to th
ose o
f the
revolution; AL
WA
YS
and EV
ER
Y-
WH
ER
E he should adhere to prin-
ciples and wage a T
IRE
LE
SS
strug-gle ag
ainst all in
correct id
eas and
actions. H
e should
be m
ore co
n-
cerned about the party and the mas-
ses than
abo
ut an
y in
div
idu
al (be
it wife, m
oth
er, child
) and
mo
re co
ncern
ed ab
out o
thers th
an h
im-
self. Only
then
can h
e be co
nsi-
dered
a revolu
tionary
." Jo
hn
Hu
gg
ins, an
d A
lpren
tice "B
unch
y" C
arter and m
any o
ther
bro
thers h
ave sa
crific
ed m
uch
mo
re than
freedo
m fo
r the p
eop
le, th
ey h
ave g
iven
their liv
es out o
f , lo
ve. L
ov
e for th
e peo
ple. T
he re-
vo
lutio
n is y
ou
r life, so th
erefore
yo
u m
ust co
ntin
ue to
edu
cate op
-pressed
peo
ple. Y
ou w
ill educate
your b
roth
ers in jail, b
ecause if
they w
ere
not o
ppre
ssed th
ey
wouldn't be there. "W
e revolution-aries are lik
e seeds an
d th
e peo
-p
le like so
il. Wh
erever w
e go
, we
must u
nite w
ith th
e peo
ple,tak
e ro
ot an
d b
losso
m am
on
g th
em."
--Chairm
an M
ao
Your ab
sence fro
m th
is "jail's! a sh
am fo
r a cou
ntry
called th
e U
nited
States o
f Am
erica, will b
e m
anifested
by all rev
olu
tionaries
In m
any d
ifferent w
ays, all p
re-
5a
a4
W1
51
.11
15
S
IC 1
0
bro
thers are h
eld in
isolatio
n cells m
ore in
terested in
than
bein
g in
• becau
se they
refuse to
work
, they
a fascist concen
tration cam
p.
refuse to
subm
it to su
per-ex
plo
i- 'T
he s
pirit o
f a P
an
ther is
tatio
n w
hile th
ey are in
the fascist g
reater than
the m
an's jail.'
jail. Th
ey are o
n a d
iet of b
read
and
water. T
hey
are no
t allow
ed D
YN
AM
ITE
to
the h
um
an p
rivileg
e of tak
ing
BOILING POT OF FASCISM
A CASE FOR BROTHER HUEY T
he w
anto
n slay
ing
of a w
hite
man
by L
os A
ngeles p
igs recen
tly
pre
sen
ts a c
ase
for M
iniste
r of
Defense H
uey P. N
ewton, and show
a re
ck
less d
isreg
ard
for h
um
an
life in
heren
t in th
e attitudes an
d
acts o
f the a
ssassin
s in b
lue.
When B
rother Huey w
as accused o
f killin
g o
ne o
f Oak
land
's paid
assa
ssins
durin
g an
obvio
us at-
tempt b
y th
em to
assassinate h
im,
no o
ne d
are
d b
elie
ve th
at c
ops
would
shoot o
ne an
oth
er while ac-
ting in
a ruth
less and reck
less fa-' sh
ion. W
hen
the q
uestio
n as to
w
hether B
roth
er H
uey k
illed
wheth
er the co
ps actu
ally sh
ot o
ne
Inri
44
."
two
fascist pig
s wh
o sto
pp
ed h
im
alleged
ly as a su
spect in
reported
sniping on the H
ollywood freew
ay. E
arly rep
orts h
ad it th
at Ou
gh
ton
had
exch
anged
gunfire w
ith b
lue-
clad assa
ssins w
ho had gone to an o
verp
ass, wh
ere a snip
er repo
r-ted
ly h
ad fired
rifle shots at p
ass-in
g c
ars, b
ut it w
as la
ter d
ete
r-m
ined that Oughton w
as unarmed.
Ou
gh
ton
had
app
arently
been
ru
shin
g h
om
e to v
iew a reg
ular
weekly w
restling program on tele-
vision when the tw
o pigs, Norm
an P
. O'M
alley an
d ro
ok
ie cop
Hen
-ry
Ken
ned
y, sp
otted
him
rush
ing
along several blocks from
the free-
nev
er carried a g
un
," she said
,, A
search o
f the area tu
rned
up
neith
er a
gun n
or evidence o
f a sn
iper,
One need not be prejudiced in be-
half of the Black P
anther Minister
of D
efense, o
r be d
ow
n o
n co
ps
to see th
at there are v
ery sim
ilar asp
ects in th
is case and th
at of
Brother H
uey. One need only look
at the p
rov
en w
eakn
esses of th
e natio
n's p
olice sy
stem, a sy
stem
that h
as been
recently
recognized
by so
me m
en in
govern
men
t as a grow
ing and most threatening poli-
tical force in
the life o
f Am
erica. T
his alw
ay co
mes ab
out p
rior to
ley fo
r years. It m
ust b
e poin
ted
out that the puppet politicians stood up fo
r the p
eople
s' rights o
nly
after rep
eatedly
bein
g rem
inded
by
the poor and working m
asses.
In accessin
g th
is in seein
g h
ow
these
fascists have neglected black peo
ple, th
eir com
munity
and its
schools, I have broken off from this
presen
t govern
men
tal system
. And
I .saY to all the other slaves on this
plan
tation, 'D
eclare yourselv
es in a
state of reb
ellion as I h
ave d
one.
Unite and w
e will - join w
ith the stru-ggle th
at is goin
g o
h, aro
und th
e
these p
rogram
s like so
man
y flies
around fresh
shit. I say
this, th
e governm
ent should serve the people an
d if it d
oesn
't , off the g
overn
-m
entj
And sin
ce the S
an Jo
aquin
Val-
ley g
reatly ex
udes all o
f the q
ual-
ities o
f fasc
ism, I sa
y it a
nd a
ll its fascist in
hab
itants sh
ould
be
dealt with by any m
eans necessary. A
LL
PO
WE
R T
O T
HE
PE
OP
LE
. D
OW
N W
ITH
TH
E. L
AN
DO
WN
ER
S. D
eWayne A
. William
s, Jr. L
t. of In
form
ation, F
resno
ya c
oo e
u p
evin
e. iv
u w
in eaucate
your b
roth
ers in jail, b
ecause if
they w
ere
not o
ppre
ssed th
ey
wouldn't be there. "W
e revolution-aries are lik
e seeds an
d th
e peo
-ple lik
e soil. W
herev
er we g
o, w
e m
ust u
nite w
ith th
e peo
plejak
e ro
ot an
d b
losso
m am
ong th
em."
---Chairm
an M
ao
Your ab
sence fro
m th
is "jail'? a sh
am fo
r a country
called th
e U
nited
States o
f Am
erica, will b
e m
anifested
by all rev
olu
tionaries
In m
any d
ifferent w
ays, all p
re-
A CASE FOR BROTHER HUEY T
he w
anto
n slay
ing o
f a white
man
by L
os A
ngeles p
igs recen
tly
pre
sents a
case
for M
iniste
r of
Defense H
uey P. N
ewton, and show
a re
ckle
ss disre
gard
for h
um
an
life inheren
t in th
e attitudes an
d
acts o
f the
assa
ssins
in b
lue.
When B
rother Huey w
as accused of k
illing o
ne o
f Oak
land's p
aid
assassins d
urin
g an
obvio
us at-
tempt b
y th
em to
assassinate h
im,
no o
ne d
are
d b
elie
ve th
at c
ops
would
shoot o
ne an
oth
er while ac-
ting in
a ruth
less and reck
less fa-' sh
ion. W
hen th
e q
uestio
n a
s to
wheth
er B
roth
er H
uey k
illed
wheth
er the co
ps actu
ally sh
ot o
ne
anoth
er and w
ounded
the b
roth
er in
their effo
rt to m
urd
er him
be-
cause o
f his rev
olu
tionary
stance,
whic
h p
ose
d a
serio
us th
reat to
th
e reactionary
, imperialistic U
ni-
ted S
tates, few d
ared th
ink it an
d
apparen
tly n
one d
ared b
elieve it.
Those doubtful persons should now
rev
aluate th
e circum
stances su
r-ro
undin
g B
roth
er Huey
's plig
ht,
especially in view of the L
.A. slay-
ing, fo
r this m
urd
er raises som
e very serious and definite questions and sh
ould
bette
r serv
e to
giv
e
greater insight into the psychology at w
ork in the fascist police depar-tm
ents o
f Am
erica: the im
pulsiv
e desire to
kill.
In the L.A
. killing, which occur-
red Ju
ne II, 2
9-y
ear-old
Donald
L
ee Oughto
n, a w
hite m
an, w
as gunned dow
n as he apparently sou-ght to
pro
duce id
entificatio
n fo
r
two fascist p
igs w
ho sto
pped
him
alleg
edly
as a susp
ect in rep
orted
sniping on the H
ollywood freew
ay. E
arly rep
orts h
ad it th
at Oughto
n
had
exch
anged
gunfire w
ith b
lue-
clad assa
ssins w
ho had gone to an overp
ass, where a sn
iper rep
or-
tedly
had
fired rifle sh
ots at p
ass-in
g c
ars, b
ut it w
as la
ter d
ete
r-m
ined that Oughton w
as unarmed.
Oughto
n h
ad ap
paren
tly b
een
rush
ing h
om
e to v
iew a reg
ular
weekly w
restling p
rogram
on tele-
visio
n w
hen
the tw
o p
igs, N
orm
an
P. O
'Malley
and ro
okie co
p H
en-
ry K
enned
y, sp
otted
him
rush
ing
along several blocks from the free-
way. "A
ll of a su
dden
, with
out an
y
apparen
t notice, h
e slow
ed to
a w
alk," a sp
okesm
an fo
r the assas-
sins said
. When
ord
ered to
do so
, O
ughto
n sto
pped
and ap
pro
ached
O
'Malley and K
ennedy, who alight-
ed fro
m th
eir car and p
ositio
ned
th
emselv
es about h
im.
Oughto
n is re
porte
d to
have
turn
ed an
d reach
ed fo
r his b
ack
pocket. "W
atc
h o
ut, h
e's g
ot a
gun!"
rookie K
enned
y is to
hav
e yelled
, w
ithout ev
er seeing a w
eapon o
r an
yth
ing th
at appeared
to b
e one.
At th
is Ken
ned
y d
rew an
d fired
, m
issing O
ughto
n an
d strik
ing 0
' M
alle
y in
the le
ft index fin
ger.
O'M
alley w
as standing
behind O
ughto
n--O
'Malley
should
hav
e been
able to
see that th
e man
had
no gun- -and K
ennedy in fron of him.
O'M
alley pulled his gun and shot O
ughton dead, reportedly believing that O
ughton had shot him.
The slain
man
's moth
er said h
er so
n alw
ays carried
a card in
his
pock
et with
his n
ame an
d ad
dress
on it b
ecause o
f a speech
han
dicap
he had. S
he said he must have been
reachin
g fo
r it when
he w
as slain.
"My so
n d
oesn
't ow
n a g
un, an
d
nev
er carried a_
gun," sh
e said..
A search
of th
e area turn
ed u
p
neith
er a gun n
or eV
iden
ce of a
snip
er. O
ne need ncit be prejudiced in be-half of the B
ldck Panther M
inister of D
efense, o
r be d
ow
n o
n co
ps
to see th
at there are v
ery sim
ilar asp
ects in
this c
ase
and th
at o
f B
rother Huey. O
ne need only look at th
e pro
ven
weak
nesses o
f the
natio
n's p
olice sy
stem, a sy
stem
that h
as been
recently
recognized
by so
me m
en in
govern
men
t as a grow
ing and most threateningpoli-
tical force in
the life o
f Am
erica. T
his aiw
ay co
mes ab
out p
rior to
an
all out fascist tak
e-over, as is
apparen
t here in
the H
uey
P. N
ew:
ton case, th
e slayin
g o
f . Martin
L
uth
er Kin
g Jr., an
d th
e persecu
-tio
n an
d m
urd
er of M
alcolm
X,
and the persecution and attempted
murd
er of th
e Min
ister of In
for-
qm
ation o
f the B
lack P
anth
er Par-
ty, E
ldrid
ge C
leaver, all o
f who
threaten
ed th
e smooth
success o
f th
e to
tal a
dvent o
f fasc
ism. In
:th
e eve o
f fascism, th
e fascists alw
ays become m
uch more daring
in th
eir acts again
st the p
eople
becau
se there stan
ds n
one to
op-
pose th
em, an
d th
ose w
ho d
o rise
in o
ppositio
n are eith
er silenced
, or k
illed. W
itness w
hat is h
ap-
pen
ing to
the B
lack P
anth
er Par-
ty o
n a n
ational scale.
.IP.Irire
orto
to
DO
NA
LD
L. O
UG
HT
ON
T
he v
ictim
By
elevatin
g m
y co
nscio
usn
ess to
the rev
olu
tion
ary lev
el, I hav
e co
me to
realiz
e th
e fa
scism
all
aro
und m
e. I h
ave c
om
e to
re
cog
nize th
e San
Joaq
uin
Valley
fo
r the p
lan
tatio
n th
at it is. In
b
ecom
ing
a revo
lutio
nary
, I recog
. nize w
ho the plantation owners are.
They a
re th
e ric
h fa
rmers w
ho
con
trol th
e San
Joaq
uin
Valley
, w
ho h
ave arg
ued
for th
e idea o
f industrializing the S
an Joaquin Val-
ley fo
r years. It m
ust b
e po
inted
out that the puppet politicians stood up fo
r the p
eople
s' rights o
nly
after rep
eatedly
bein
g rem
ind
ed b
y
the p
oo
r and
wo
rkin
g m
asses. In
accessing th
is in seein
g h
ow
th
ese fascists hav
e neg
lected b
lack
peo
ple, th
eir com
mu
nity
and
its schools, I have broken off from
this presen
t govern
men
tal system
. And
I say to
all the o
ther slav
es on th
is plantation, 'D
eclare yourselves in a state o
f rebellio
n as I h
ave d
one.
Unite and w
e willioin w
ith the stru-ggle th
at is goin
g o
h aro
und th
e
y
whom
he is
mo
re interested
in th
an b
eing
in
a fascist con
centratio
n cam
p.
'The s
pirit o
f a P
anth
er is
greater th
an th
e man
's jail.'
wo
rld to
end co
lonialism!
And in
conclu
sion to
my an
al-y
sis of th
e San
Joaq
uin
Valley
and
F
resn
o, its la
rgest c
ity, I fin
d
that it is a b
oilin
g p
ot o
f racism.
Tom
s fly aro
und th
e shit-sm
elling
poverty
pro
gram
s gettin
g m
oney
th
at smells w
ith th
e stench
of th
e d
eceit o f th
e masses in
to th
ink
-in
g th
ey h
ave so
meth
ing
to h
op
e fo
r in th
e p
rese
nt d
ay g
overn
-m
ental system
. T
hey
fly aro
un
d
these p
rog
rams lik
e so m
any
flies aro
un
d fresh
shit. I say
this, th
e governm
ent should serve the people an
d if it d
oesn
't , off th
e go
vern
-m
ent
An
d sin
ce the S
an Jo
aqu
in V
al-ley
greatly
exudes all o
f the q
ual-
ities o
f fasc
ism, I sa
y it a
nd
all
its fascist inhab
itants sh
ould
be
dealt with by any m
eans necessary. A
LL
Pq
WE
R T
O T
HE
PE
OP
LE
. D
OW
N W
ITH
TH
E. L
AN
DO
WN
ER
S. D
eWayne A
. William
s, Jr. L
t. of In
form
ation, F
resno
se mu
ngs.
Ch
airman
Mao
says th
at "A re-
volutionary should have largeness of m
ind an
d h
e should
be stau
nch
an
d activ
e, loo
kin
g u
po
n th
e in-
tere
sts of th
e re
vo
lutio
n a
s his
VE
RY
LIF
E and subordinating his
perso
nal in
terests to th
ose o
f the
revolution; AL
WA
YS
and EV
ER
Y-
WH
ER
E h
e sho
uld
adh
ere to p
rin-
ciples and wage a T
IRE
LE
SS
strug-g
le again
st all inco
rrect ideas an
d
action
s. He sh
ou
ld b
e mo
re con
-cerned about the party and the m
as-ses th
an ab
out an
y in
div
idual (b
e it w
ife, mo
ther, ch
ild) an
d m
ore
con
cerned
abo
ut o
thers th
an h
im-
self. Only
then
can h
e be co
nsi-
dered
a revo
lutio
nary
!' Jo
hn
Hu
gg
ins, an
d A
lpren
tice "B
un
chy
" Carter an
d m
any
oth
er b
roth
ers h
av
e sa
crific
ed
mu
ch
m
ore th
an freed
om
for th
e peo
ple,
they
hav
e giv
en th
eir lives o
ut o
f lo
ve. L
ov
e for th
e peo
ple. T
he re-
vo
lutio
n is y
ou
r life, so th
erefore
yo
u m
ust co
ntin
ue to
edu
cate op
-pressed
peo
ple. Y
ou w
ill educate
yo
ur b
roth
ers in jail, b
ecause if
they
were
no
t op
pre
ssed
they
w
ouldn't be there. "We revolution-
aries are like seed
s and th
e peo
-ple lik
e soil. W
herev
er we g
o, w
e m
ust u
nite w
ith th
e peo
ple,tak
e ro
ot an
d b
losso
m am
on
g th
em."
---Chairm
an M
ao
Yo
ur ab
sence fro
m th
is "jail'? a sh
am fo
r a country
called th
e U
nited
States o
f Am
erica, will b
e m
anifested
by all rev
olu
tionaries
in m
any
differen
t way
s, all pre-
bro
ars a
re held
in Iso
latio
n cells
beca
use th
ey refuse to w
ork, they
refuse to
subm
it to su
per-ex
plo
i-tatio
n w
hile th
ey are in
the fascist
jail. Th
ey are o
n a d
iet of b
read
and
water. T
hey
are no
t allow
ed 'D
YN
AM
ITE
to th
e hu
man
priv
ilt , :ge o
f takin
g
BOILING POT OF FASCISM
A CASE FOR BROTHER HUEY T
he w
anto
n slay
ing o
f a white
man
by
Lo
s An
geles p
igs recen
tly
pre
sents a
case
for M
iniste
r of
Defense H
uey P. N
ewton, and show
a reck
less disreg
ard fo
r hum
an
life inheren
t in th
e attitudes an
d
acts o
f the a
ssassin
s in b
lue.
When B
rother Huey w
as accused of k
illing o
ne o
f Oak
land's p
aid
assassins d
urin
g an
obvio
us at-
tempt b
y th
em to
assassinate h
im,
no o
ne d
are
d b
elie
ve th
at c
ops
would shoot one another w
hile ac-tin
g in
a ruth
less and reck
less fa-' sh
ion
. Wh
en th
e qu
estion
as to
wheth
er B
roth
er Hu
ey k
illed
whether the cops actually shot one
two fascist p
igs w
ho sto
pped
him
alleg
edly
as a susp
ect in rep
orted
sniping on the H
ollywood freew
ay. E
arly rep
orts h
ad it th
at Ou
gh
ton
h
ad ex
chan
ged
gu
nfire w
ith b
lue-
clad assassin
s wh
o h
ad g
on
e to an
o
verp
ass, wh
ere a snip
er repo
r-ted
ly h
ad fired
rifle sho
ts at pass-
ing
cars, b
ut it w
as la
ter d
ete
r-m
ined that Oughton w
as unarmed.
Oughto
n h
ad ap
paren
tly b
een
rush
ing h
om
e to v
iew a reg
ular
weekly w
restling program on tele-
vision when the tw
o pigs, Norm
an P
. O'M
alley an
d ro
okie co
p H
en-
ry K
enn
edy
, spo
tted h
im ru
shin
g
alone several blocks from th
e f._
nev
er carried a g
un
," she said
., A
search o
f the area tu
rned
up
neith
er a gu
n n
or eiiid
ence o
f a sn
iper.
One need not be prejudiced in be-
half of the Black P
anther Minister
of D
efense, o
r be d
ow
n o
n co
ps
to see th
at there are v
ery sim
ilar asp
ects in th
is case and th
at of
Brother H
uey. One need only look
at the p
rov
en w
eakn
esses of th
e natio
n's p
olice sy
stem, a sy
stem
that h
as been
recently
recognized
by so
me m
en in
govern
men
t as a grow
ing and most threateningpoli-
tical force in
the life o
f Am
erica.
CO
NN
EC
TIC
UT
PA
NT
HE
RS
PE
GG
Y H
UD
GIN
S
WA
RR
EN
KIM
BR
O
TH
E B
LA
CK
PA
NT
HE
R S
AT
UR
DA
Y, JU
NE
21, 1969 PA
GE
5
FASCIST FORCES MOVE NATIONW
IDE TO DESTROY BLACK PANTHER PARTY
.LO
NN
IE M
C L
UC
AS
When
the o
ppresso
r makes a
vicious a
ttack a
gain
st freed
om
fighters b
ecause o
f the w
ay th
at su
ch freed
om
fighters choose to go about their liberation, then w
e know
we are m
oving in the direction of our liberation. —
Huey P. N
ewton
Th
e Black
Pan
ther p
arty is u
nd
er natio
nw
ide attack
, in a
concerted government effort to destroy gains the P
anthers have m
ade in black comm
unities. In a June 5 press conference, Bobby
Seale, B
lack Panther party chairm
an, said more than 40 P
anther leaders have been arrested in the last tw
o months. T
he Panthers
hav
e lost k
ey p
eople in
Oreg
on, C
onnecticu
t, Colo
rado, N
ew
Jersey and California. S
eale termed these arrests "nothing m
ore than R
ichard Nixon's operations."
Seale's fig
ure o
f 40 d
id n
ot in
clude th
e indictm
ent o
f 21
Panthers in N
ew Y
ork City on A
pril 3. They w
ere charged with
conspiring to bomb several departm
ent stores, blow up the B
ronx botanical G
ardens, several police stations and a section of railroad tracks. T
his.was the high point of a N
ew Y
ork police vendetta w
hich
has, b
rought 6
0 ch
arges ag
ainst P
anth
ers in th
e last 10
months. T
here have been no convictions. T
hirteen
of th
e Pan
ther 2
1 are cu
rrently
bein
g h
eld o
n
$100,000 bail each in seven New
York prisons under m
aximum
security. T
hey are kept in lighted cells 24 hours a day, they are allow
ed no recreation or library privileges, and have not been perm
itted to meet as a group w
ith their lawyers, G
erry Lefcourt
and William
Kunstler, to prepare their defense.
Under these conditions and w
ith hostile nationwide publicity,
the Panther 21 are guaranteed a prejudiced trial if it is held, as
scheduled, on June 11. Defense. law
yers have asked a federal co
urt fo
r a show
-cause h
earing w
hich
would
force th
e state com
missioner of corrections to release the prisoners, to low
er their bail or to show
that no injustice or violation of/procedures has taken place w
hich would deny them
a fair trial. T
here h
ave b
een 1
0 h
earing
s on
bail red
uctio
n fo
r the 2
1.
Lonnie E
pps, a minor, had his bail reduted to $10,000 and w
as released. A
"friendly" bailbondsman told one P
anther, "I got a call from
DA
Phillips saying that I w
ould lose my license to do
business if I bailed out the Panthers."
The g
overn
men
t has u
sed th
e Pan
ther 2
1 case to
bust an
d
harass P
anth
er chap
ters all over th
e country
. In N
ew H
aven
, C
onn. on May 22, eight m
embers of a chapter just being form
ed w
ere arrested an
d ch
arged
with
kid
nap
pin
g an
d m
urd
ering
a New
York P
anther who, the police claim
, was going to testify
against the Panther 21.
Ra
ids
a p
rete
xt
Panther offices in C
hicago, Denver and S
alt Lake C
ity have been raided by police and F
BI agents looking for N
ew Y
ork and N
ew H
aven "fugitives." Local authorities have tried to use these
raids to turn comm
unity opinion against the Panthers. T
he raids hav
e also b
een p
retexts fo
r police co
nfiscatio
n o
f Pan
ther
organizing material, m
oney and whatever else w
as portable. In
New
Hav
en, C
onn. p
olice claim
eight lo
cal Pan
thers
kid
nap
ed A
lix R
ackley
from
New
Yo
rk an
d m
urd
ered h
im in
N
ew H
aven
. Rack
ley, th
e cop
s say, w
as to testify
again
st the
Panther 21. T
he New
York P
anther office says Rackley w
as an ex
cellent o
rgan
izer wh
o h
ad clo
se con
tact with
the p
eop
le of
Harle
m " R
rnt —
or Al;.
,.,.,e
t... _
J
• •
•
WA
RR
EN K
IMB
RO
JEAN
NIE W
ILSON
FASCISM F
ascism is th
e open
terrorist d
ictatorsh
ip o
f the m
ost
reactio
nary
, most c
hauvin
istic (ra
cist) a
nd m
ost im
-perialist elem
ents o
f finan
ce capital. It d
oes n
ot stan
d
above b
oth
classes - the p
roletariat an
d th
e bourg
eoisie,
nor is it su
per-class g
overn
men
t, nor g
overn
men
t of th
e petty
-bourg
eoisie o
r the lu
mpen
pro
letariat over fin
ance
capital. F
ascism is th
e pow
er of fin
ance cap
ital itself. F
INA
NC
E C
AP
ITA
L m
anifests itself n
ot o
nly
as ban
ks,
trusts, an
d m
onopoly
s, but also
as the h
um
an p
roperty
of
FIN
T A
l■lCr
CA
PIT
AL
— tha
axra
-ririnlic
hi rs
ZA
MIM
MIN
PEG
GY H
UD
GIN
S
MA
UD
E FRA
NC
IS E
RIC
A H
UG
GIN
S
FRA
NC
IS C
AR
TER
GE
OR
GE
ED
WA
RD
S
RO
SE
SM
ITH
Panther offices in C
hicago, Denver and S
alt Lake C
ity have been raided by police and F
BI agents looking for N
ew Y
ork and N
ew H
aven "fugitives." Local authorities have tried to use these
raids to turn comm
unity opinion against the Panthers. T
he raids hav
e also b
een p
retexts fo
r police co
nfiscatio
n o
f Pan
ther
organizing material, m
oney and whatever else w
as portable. In
New
Hav
en, C
onn. p
olice claim
eight lo
cal Pan
thers
kid
nap
ed A
lix R
ackley
from
New
York
and m
urd
ered h
im in
N
ew H
aven
. Rack
ley, th
e cops say
, was to
testify ag
ainst th
e P
anther 21. The N
ew Y
ork Panther office says R
ackley was an
excellen
t org
anizer w
ho h
ad clo
se contact w
ith th
e peo
ple o
f H
arlem. "B
rother Alix w
as murdered by the pigs and now
eight P
anthers have been framed on trum
ped-up charges and are being held captive w
ithout bail." O
n June 3, Chicago police and F
BI agents w
ith machine guns
forced their way into P
anther headquarters, claiming they w
ere looking for "G
eorge Sam
s, a fugitive from N
ew Y
ork." Eight
Panthers w
ere arrested, charged with harboring a federal fugitive
and illegal possession of weapons.
Tw
o, days later in Denver, R
ory Hithe, 18, and L
andon Robert
William
s, 25,' w
ere arrested fo
r unlaw
ful flig
ht to
avoid
pro
secutio
n. T
hey w
ere
taken in
to c
usto
dy a
t Panth
er
headquarters and charged with being involved in the N
ew H
aven case. B
ail for each was set at $200,000.
Another P
anther allegedly involved in the case was arrested in
Salt L
ake City June 6. L
onnie McL
ucas, 23, was charged w
ith unlaw
ful flight to avoid prosecution and had bail set at $100,000. O
n the night of June 7 about 400 black people gathered in the street outside the Indianapolis B
lack Panther party office. T
hree cops in a patrol car tried to disperse the crow
d. The cops claim
they w
ere attacked. P
olice used the gathering as a pretext for entering the Panther
office and busting everyone presegt.. About half of the 30 persons
arrested w
ere Pan
thers. T
he in
ciden
t hap
pen
ed o
n th
e second
night of disturbances in Indianapolis, in which about 200 blacks
have been arrested and six'injured. One undercover agent w
as reportedly w
ounded by a sniper. T
hese raids on the Panthers are being used in N
ew Y
ork to preju
dice th
e public ag
ainst th
e Pan
ther 2
1. T
he p
ress reports
each bust with blaring headlines, although the P
anthers here have never been found guilty on any charge. T
he press never mentions
the Panther's 10-point political program
or the fact that they are setting up free m
edical care services and free breakfasts for school children. W
e never hear that the Panthers say, "W
e want land,
bread, housing, education, justice and peace;" instead we hear
trumped-up charges, ridiculous stories and enorm
ous bail figures. A
ction is b
eing tak
en to
publicize th
e real natu
re of .th
e nationw
ide move against the P
anthers. A series of dem
onstrations have been held in N
ew Y
ork, the most recent on June 3 at the
federal courthouse, where 200 people show
ed up. T
wo of the P
anther 21—Joan B
ird and Afeni S
hakur—and tw
o P
anthers arrested on other charges are being held at the Wom
en's H
ouse of Detention, 6th A
venue and West 10th S
treet. The A
d H
oc C
om
mittee to
Support th
e Pan
ther 2
1 h
as called fo
r a dem
onstration there on June 14 at 1 p.m.
In New
Haven, m
embers of Y
ale SD
S distributed a leaflet
stating, "Th,-; charges against the N
ew H
aven Panthers, which have
been trumped up by the governm
ent and police, are intended to
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ew Y
ork."
Eigh
t P
anthers were arrested, charged w
ith harboring a federal fugitive and illegal possession of w
eapons. T
wo, days later in D
enver, Rory H
ithe, 18, and Landon R
obert W
illiam
s, 25
, were a
rrested fo
r un
law
ful flig
ht to
av
oid
p
rosecu
tion
. Th
ey w
ere tak
en in
to cu
stod
y a
t Pan
ther
headquarters and charged with being involved in the N
ew M
aven `case. B
ail for each w
as set at $200,000. A
nother Panther allegedly involved in the case w
as arrested in S
alt Lak
e City Ju
ne 6. L
onn
ie McL
ucas, 23, w
as charged
with
u
nlaw
ful fligh
t to avoid p
rosecution
and
had
bail set at $100,000.
On
the n
ight of Ju
ne 7 ab
out 400 b
lack p
eople gath
ered in
the
street outsid
e the In
dian
apolis B
lack P
anth
er party office. T
hree
cops in
a patrol car tried
to disp
erse the crow
d. T
he cop
s claim
they w
ere attacked
. P
olice used
the gath
ering as a p
retext for enterin
g the P
anth
er office an
d b
ustin
g everyone p
resent. A
bou
t half of th
e 30 person
s arrested
were P
anth
ers. Th
e incid
ent h
app
ened
on th
e second
n
ight of d
isturb
ances in
Ind
ianap
olis, in w
hich
abou
t 200 black
s h
ave been
arrested an
d six' in
jured
. On
e un
dercover agen
t was
reportedly wounded by a sniper.
Th
ese raids on
the P
anth
ers are bein
g used
in N
ew Y
ork to
preju
dice th
e pu
blic again
st the P
anth
er 21. Th
e press rep
orts each bust w
ith blaring headlines, although the Panthers here have
never b
een fou
nd
guilty on
any ch
arge. Th
e press n
ever men
tions
the P
anth
er's 10-poin
t political p
rogram or th
e fact that th
ey are setting up free m
edical care services and free breakfasts for school ch
ildren
. We n
ever hear th
at the P
anth
ers say, "W
e wan
t land
, b
read, h
ousin
g, edu
cation, ju
stice and
peace;"
instead
we h
ear trum
ped-up charges, ridiculous stories and enormous bail figures.
Actio
n is b
eing
tak
en to
pu
blicize th
e real n
atu
re of .th
e nationw
ide move against the P
anthers. A series of dem
onstrations h
ave been
held
in N
ew Y
ork, th
e most recen
t on Ju
ne 3 at th
e fed
eral courth
ouse, w
here 200 p
eople sh
owed
up
. T
wo of the P
anther 21—Joan B
ird and Afeni Shakur—
and two
Panthers arrested on other charges are being held at the W
omen's
Hou
se of Deten
tion, 6th
Aven
ue an
d W
est 10th S
treet. Th
e Ad
H
oc C
om
mittee to
Su
pp
ort th
e Pan
ther 2
1 h
as ca
lled fo
r a
dem
onstration
there on
Jun
e 14 at 1 p.m
. In
New
Haven
, mem
bers of Y
ale SD
S d
istribu
ted a leaflet
stating, "The charges against the N
ew H
aven Panthers, w
hich have b
een tru
mp
ed u
p b
y the govern
men
t and
police, are in
tend
ed to
inten
sify race hatred
by p
laying u
pon
the lies an
d m
yths in
stilled
in w
hite p
eople b
y the ed
ucation
al system an
d th
e mass m
edia."
T
he P
an
thers h
ave ca
lled fo
r a n
atio
nal co
nferen
ce of
revolution
aries to form a U
nited
Fron
t Again
st Fascism
. Th
e co
nferen
ce will b
e held
Ju
ly 1
8-2
1 in
Oa
kla
nd
, Ca
lif. Th
e P
anth
ers expect 5000 p
articipan
ts and
the call to th
e conferen
ce stresses th
e need
for "a fron
t wh
ich h
as a comm
on revolu
tionary
ideology an
d p
olitical program
wh
ich an
swers th
e bask
desires
and
need
s of all peop
le in fascist, cap
italistic, racist Am
erica. P
rimary ob
jective will b
e com
mu
nity co
ntro
l of p
olice to
end
fascism."
This article is a reprint from the G
uardian June 14, 1969 issue
FASCISM F
ascism is th
e op
en terro
rist dictato
rship
of th
e mo
st re
actio
nary
, most c
hauvin
istic (ra
cist) a
nd m
ost im
-perialist elem
ents o
f finan
ce capital. It d
oes n
ot stan
d
abo
ve b
oth
classes - the p
roletariat an
d th
e bo
urg
eoisie,
nor is it su
per-class g
overrirn
ent, n
or g
overn
men
t of th
e petty
-bourg
eoisie o
r the lu
mpen
pro
letariat over fin
ance
capital. F
ascism is th
e pow
er of fin
ance cap
ital itself. F
INA
NC
E C
AP
ITA
L m
anifests itself n
ot o
nly
as ban
ks,
trusts, an
d m
onopoly
s, but also
as the h
um
an p
roperty
o
f FIN
AN
CE
CA
PIT
AL
- the av
ariciou
s bu
sinessm
an,
the d
em
ag
og
ic p
olitic
ian
, an
d th
e ra
cist p
ig c
op
. F
AS
CIS
M is th
e o
rgan
izatio
n o
f terro
rist ven
gen
ce
again
st the w
ork
ing
class, and
the rev
olu
tion
ary sectio
n
of th
e peasan
try an
d in
telligen
tsia.
CAPITALISM PLUS RACISM
EQUALS FASCISM
PU
BL
IC T
RIA
L
with
P
eople
's Judges, P
rose
cutin
g A
ttorn
eys,
an
d Ju
ry
TH
E P
EO
PL
E o
f the
LO
WE
R E
AS
T
SID
E
versus
TH
E W
AR
CR
IMIN
ALS
: T
he U
.S. G
ove
rnm
ent
The P
entagon T
he
Pro
fitee
rs S
atu
rday, D
ec 2
0th
-1 P
M
• S
t. Ma
rks Ch
urch
on
the
Bo
uw
erie
S
eco
nd
Ave
. at 1
0th
Stre
et
Sp
on
sore
d b
y LE
MP
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Ave
. B, N
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•
...Panthers (c
ontin
ued fro
m m
e 3.)
• co
nfro
nta
tion w
ith th
e p
olice
who a
lleg-
ed
ly s
ou
gh
t to in
stru
ct th
e P
an
the
rs to
to
ne
do
wn
the
ir lou
dsp
ea
ker.
(Th
e first tim
e S
WA
T co
ps a
cted
op
en
-ly
as a
un
it tho
ug
h n
ot in
vo
lve
d in
an
a
ctua
l ba
ttle w
as ju
st afte
r the
No
v. 28
a
ffair. T
he
y surro
un
de
d th
e h
ea
dq
ua
rters-
an
d sh
ou
ted
tau
ntin
g re
ma
rks inte
nd
ed
to
pro
voke
a fig
ht. O
ne
sou
rce sa
ys a p
artic-
ula
r shoute
d re
mark w
as, "W
e kn
ow
you
have
guns in
there
nig
gers-w
hy d
on't yo
u
use them? -)
Imm
ed
iate
de
fen
se
stra
teg
y fo
r the
P
an
the
rs will h
e to
cha
llen
ge
the
leg
ality
of th
e se
arch
an
d a
rrest w
arra
nt -a
nd
to
req
ue
st a fu
ll ba
il he
arin
g, in
stea
d o
f the
p
relim
ina
ry he
arin
gs.
The vicio
usn
ess o
f the p
olice
atta
ck, fo
llow
ing
so clo
sely o
n th
e C
hica
go
mu
r-ders. h
as so
lidifie
d th
e b
lack -co
mm
un
ity in
sup
po
rt of th
e B
lack P
an
the
rs. On
the
afte
rnoon- o
f the D
ec. 8
atta
ck, hundre
ds
of b
lack stu
de
nts fro
m n
ea
rby Je
fferso
n
Hig
h S
cho
ol w
alke
d o
ut o
f class. In
the
e
ven
ing
, som
e 3
50
rep
rese
nta
tives o
f var-
ious b
lack o
rganiza
tions m
et to
form
the
Co
alitio
n o
f (7on
t mun
ity Org
aniza
tion
s, w
hich
calle
d fo
r the
city ha
ll rally. P
arti-
cip
an
ts in
the
co
alitio
n in
clu
de
rad
ica
l g
rou
ps, co
mm
un
ity service
org
an
izatio
ns,
the B
lack E
lecte
d O
fficials' O
rganiza
tion,
Urb
an
Le
ag
ue
. Op
era
tion
Bre
ad
ba
sket,
NA
AC
P, S
ou
the
rn C
hristia
n L
ea
de
rship
C
onfe
rence a
nd o
ther b
lack o
rganiz
a-
tion
s. T
he
coa
lition
de
ma
nd
ed
tha
t-an inves-tig
atio
n o
f the
atta
ck be
un
de
rtake
n b
y th
e L
os A
ng
ele
s C
ity C
ou
ncil, th
e U
.S.
Com
missio
n o
n C
ivil Rig
hts a
nd th
e Ju
s-tice
Departm
ent. A
report w
ill be d
raw
n
up
an
d p
rese
nte
d to
the
Justice
De
pa
rt-- w
ent c
harg
ing th
at th
ere
is a
natio
nal
conspiracy againSt the P
anthers. P
an
the
r spo
kesm
en
ha
ve a
lrea
dy a
n-
no
un
ce
d th
at th
e U
N S
ecu
rity C
ou
ncil.
would
be a
sked to
inve
stigate
U.S
. 'gov-
ern
ment g
enocid
e a
gain
st bla
ck Am
eri-
cans. ,
18
/DE
CE
MB
ER
20
, 19
69
/GU
AR
DIA
N
Th
e d
ay a
fter th
e a
ttack, P
an
the
r m
em
bers sh
ow
ed
up a
t headquarte
rs as
usu
al a
nd
serve
d h
ot b
rea
kfasts fo
r chil-
dre
n. D
esp
ite w
ha
t ha
pp
en
ed
, ab
ou
t ha
lf th
e n
orm
al n
um
be
r of c
hild
ren
sh
ow
ed
u
p. L
ate
r in th
e d
ay, h
ow
eve
r, the
De
-partm
ent o
f Health
officia
lly condem
ned
the
he
ad
qu
arte
rs, p
uttin
g u
p - a
no
tice,
"Un
safe
, do
no
t en
ter," n
ea
r a fro
nt d
oo
r sig
n re
ad
ing
, "Fre
e H
ue
y-Fe
ed
Hu
ng
ry C
hild
ren
. Fre
e b
rea
kfast fo
r scho
ol ch
il-dre
n."
L. A
. cops d
ispla
y Panth
er "a
rsenal."
Th
e p
arty h
eld
a p
ress co
nfe
ren
ce o
ut-
sid
e ith
e o
ffice th
e n
ext m
orn
ing. A
fter
de
clarin
g th
at it w
as a
n o
ffice b
elo
ng
ing
to
the
pe
op
le, th
e P
an
the
rs b
roke
into
th
eir o
wn
bu
ildin
g, b
eg
an
clea
nin
g u
p th
e
de
bris a
nd
invite
d stu
de
nts a
nd
com
mu
n-
ity resid
en
ts to vie
w th
e d
am
ag
e a
nd
he
lp
with
repairs. H
elp
was fo
rthco
min
g. T
he
hod ca
rriers u
nio
n se
nt w
orke
rs to h
elp
re
build
the o
ffice a
nd vo
lunte
er e
lectric-
ians se
t about to
fix the lig
htin
g.
Tw
ice d
urin
g th
e d
ay p
olice
sought to
bre
ak u
p th
e cro
wds co
ngre
gatin
g a
round
the
Pa
nth
er b
uild
ing
, reso
rting
at tim
es to
te
ar g
as. A
t 9 p
.m.,. w
ith a
bout 1
50 p
eo-
ple
millin
g o
utsid
e, th
e S
WA
T S
qu
ad
re-
turn
ed
an
d d
ecla
red
an
un
law
ful a
ssem
-b
ly. Th
ey m
ove
d in
with
club
s swin
gin
g to
disp
erse
the cro
wd. S
eve
ral p
eople
were
beate
n o
r arre
sted. T
hey m
arch
ed a
round
in m
ilitary fo
rmatio
n fo
r at le
ast a
n h
our,
terro
rizing a
nyo
ne w
ho ve
ntu
red o
utsid
e
a b
uild
ing
or n
ea
r the
office
. S
tate
Se
na
tor M
ervin
Dym
ally, o
ne
of
seve
ral b
lack le
gisla
tors w
ho h
ad co
me to
th
e su
pport o
f the.P
anth
ers, trie
d to
ne-
gotia
te w
ith th
e p
olic
e, a
skin
g fo
r five
min
ute
s to w
ork o
ut a
n a
rran
ge
me
nt fo
r re
movin
g th
e cro
wd. N
o so
on
er h
ad
he
tu
rne
d h
is ba
ck, po
lice ch
arg
ed
a g
rou
p o
f youth
s, s
trikin
g -D
ym
ally
on th
e c
heek
and te
mple
. A
t noon D
ec. I1
, perh
aps th
e la
rgest
rally
ever w
as h
eld
on th
e s
teps o
f city
hall. A
bout 5
000 p
eople
-four-fifth
s
bla
ck-lis
ten
ed
to m
ilitan
t sp
ee
ch
es b
y
repre
senta
tives o
f milita
nt a
nd m
odera
te
bla
ck org
aniza
tions. S
peake
rs from
the
SC
LC
and N
AA
CP
share
d th
e p
latfo
rm
with
two P
anth
er w
om
en a
nd A
ngela
D
avis
of th
e C
om
munis
t party
's C
he-
Lu
mu
mb
a C
lub
. Th
e R
ev. R
icha
rd B
ass
of th
e N
AA
CP
decla
red th
e a
ttacks o
n
the
Pa
nth
ers
we
re "p
art o
f the
na
tion
al
conspira
cy to
destro
y a
ny a
ggre
ssiv
e,
virile
bla
ck le
ad
ers
hip
." Th
e R
ev. H
.H.
Bro
okin
s, who ch
aire
d th
e ra
lly, exp
res-
sed th
e s
olid
arity
of th
e e
ntire
gro
up
when h
e sa
id th
e P
anth
ers w
ere
the b
ull's-
eye
but th
e ta
rget w
as th
e b
lack co
mm
un-
ity:
- Th
e p
olice
atta
ck wa
s we
ll-pla
nn
ed
, at
least tw
o w
eeks in
pre
para
tion. B
ut, it
may h
ave m
isfire
d, a
s d
id th
e C
hic
ago
polic
e a
ttack. In
ste
ad o
f destro
yin
g th
e
Pa
nth
er o
rga
niza
tion
the
po
lice h
ave
suc-
ceeded in
solid
ifying th
e b
lack co
mm
un-
ity in
. defe
nse
of th
e P
anth
ers. E
ven th
e
police
now
seem
to h
ave
seco
nd th
oughts.
"In h
indsig
ht," co
mm
ente
d a
ssistant p
o-
lice ch
ief R
ob
ert H
ou
gh
ton
, wh
o le
d th
e
pla
nnin
g a
nd th
e a
ctu
al ra
id, "1
don't
know
wheth
er th
is was th
e b
est ta
ctic."
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latio
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nsive
wa
r re-
sistance
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ttor-
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orte
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id
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g in
915 co
nvictio
ns.
"Th
e ju
dg
es a
re g
ettin
g to
ug
he
r," said
Wilso
n,
no
ting
tha
t in fis
ca
l ye
ar 1
96
9 (J
uly
19
68
th
rough Ju
ne 1
969), 3
455 m
en w
ere
prosecuted fo
r dra
ft vio
latio
ns w
ith s
ente
nces a
vera
gin
g
mo
re th
an
thre
e ye
ars.
• ■•■ "
Wit
I police ssault 'anthers
By P
atty Lee P
armalee
Guardian L
os Angeles B
ureau L
os Angeles
Quick
and h
eroic th
inkin
g m
ay h
ave p
reven
ted m
ore m
urd
ers of B
lack P
anth
er party
mem
bers b
y p
olice last w
eek. T
hat is th
e real sto
ry b
ehin
d th
e gu
nfig
ht b
etween
the P
anth
ers and
Lo
s A
ngeles police. Ju
st four d
ays after tw
o ran
kin
g Illin
ois P
anth
ers were sh
ot to
death
durin
g a p
olic•:- raid
on a p
arty o
ffice in C
hicag
o, L
os
Angeles p
olice co
nducted
similar raid
s on th
ree offices h
ere--one
of w
hich
, at Pan
ther reg
ional h
eadquarters, resu
lted in
the n
early
six-h
ou
r gu
n b
attle. T
he p
olice attack
s beg
an b
efore d
awn
D
ec. 8. F
irst, po
lice b
arged
into
the o
ffice-ho
me o
f Pan
ther lead
er Elm
er Pratt. T
he
secon
d attack
was at th
e To
ure co
mm
un
ity cen
ter—n
amed
for
Pan
ther W
ally "T
ou
re" Po
pe, k
illed b
y p
olice S
ept. 2
0—
wh
ere police threw
tear gas. Ten P
anthers were arrested in these raids.
Th
e final an
d larg
est raid w
as at the tw
o-sto
ry b
rick b
uild
ing
w
hich
serves as L
os A
ngeles h
eadquarters, w
here p
olice h
ad g
one
on
an.alleg
ed search
for illeg
al weap
on
s. - E
leven
party
mem
bers, in
cludin
g tw
o w
om
en, h
eld o
ff som
e 300 p
olicem
en, w
ithsto
od g
as and au
tom
atic weap
ons fire an
d
refused
to leav
e the b
uild
ing u
ntil it w
as assured
new
smen
and
other civilians would be allow
ed to witness their surrender.
• T
he b
esieged
Parith
ers feared th
at with
out w
itnesses th
ey
would
hav
e been
murd
ered, as w
ere Fred
Ham
pto
n an
d M
ark
Clark
a few d
ays earlier in
Chicag
o. T
here w
as no q
uestio
n o
f w
innin
g th
e fight ag
ainst su
ch o
dds. "W
e gav
e up b
ecause it's n
ot
the rig
ht tim
e," said R
enee M
oo
re, 19
, after she w
as arrested.
"We'll fig
ht ag
ain w
hen
the o
dd
s are mo
re in o
ur fav
or."
The th
ree raids resu
lted in
21 arrests. F
ive p
olicem
en an
d
seven
Pan
thers w
ere wo
un
ded
in th
e head
qu
arters attack. P
olice
cla
im to
hav
e fo
un
d a
store
ho
use
of ille
gal. w
eapo
ns in
the
build
ing, b
ut th
e Pan
thers ch
arge th
e weap
ons w
ere plan
ted o
n
the scen
e after they
left. C
om
mu
nity
sup
po
rt for th
e Pan
thers d
evelo
ped
imm
ediately
. L
eadin
g b
lack p
olitical 'rep
resentativ
es hav
e called fo
r inv
esti-g
ation
s. So
me 5
00
0 p
eop
le pro
tested th
e attack in
a rally at city
hall D
ec. 11. .
Few
peo
ple in
the b
lack co
mm
un
ity b
elieve th
e po
lice versio
n
of th
e attack. A
ccord
ing
to a L
os A
ng
eles po
lice spo
kesm
an, th
e raid
s were co
nducted
10 d
ays after p
olice lieu
tenan
t Ted
Morto
n
was o
rdered
ou
t of th
e head
qu
arters at gu
np
oin
t after requ
esting
th
at a lou
dsp
eaker b
e turn
ed d
ow
n. R
eturn
ing
befo
re daw
n D
ec. 8 w
ith search
and arrest w
arrants, p
olice said
there w
as no
answ
er w
hen
they
kn
ock
ed o
n th
e do
or. A
fter they
dem
olish
ed th
e fron
t door w
ith a b
attering ram
and en
tered th
e build
ing, th
ey w
ere m
et with
subm
achin
e gun an
d sh
otg
un fire. T
hree o
f the fo
ur
cop
s insid
e were w
ou
nd
ed. R
einfo
rcemen
ts were called
to b
olster
the n
early 8
0-m
an fo
rce arou
nd
the b
uild
ing
and
the sieg
e beg
an,
Aw
akened
by g
un
fire
The P
anth
ers tell a qu
ite differen
t versio
n.
The n
ine m
en an
d tw
o w
om
en sleep
ing in
head
quarter ap
art-
Hilliard
con
victed
Gu
ard
ii!•? W
est C
oa
st Bu
rea
u
Berkeley
David H
illiard, Black P
anther party chief of staff, was
con
victed
on
a Misd
emean
or ch
arge o
f po
ssession
of a
load
ed w
eapo
n in
Berk
eley o
n D
ec. 11
. Th
e jury
was
unable to reach a decision on a second charge, possession of a concealed w
eapon. S
entencing was set for D
ec. 18. Maxim
um penalty on
the charge is six months in jail and a $500 fine.
Th
e lon
g d
elayed
trial stemm
ed fro
m th
e arrest of
Hilliard
and tw
o o
ther P
anth
ers, Bunch
y C
arter and
Joh
n C
oltrale o
utsid
e of B
ob
by
Seale's resid
ence in
B
erkeley
in F
ebru
ary 1
96
8. H
illiard sto
od
trial alon
e as C
arter and Coltrale have since been killed.
Hilliard
still mu
st face a charg
e of attem
pted
mu
rder
in co
nn
ection
with
the A
pril 7
, 19
68
shb
oto
ut w
ith
Oak
land p
olice an
d a fed
eral charg
e of th
reatenin
g th
e life o
f the P
residen
t stemm
ing
from
his N
ov
. 15
speech
to
the an
tiwar rally
in S
an F
rancisco
. He is cu
rrently
out
on bail.
. Po
lice ho
ld tw
o L
A P
anth
ers after pre-d
awn
sho
oto
ut.
afraid they were being surrounded and at that point they allow
ed th
e Pan
thers to
surren
der."
Sev
eral of th
e Pan
ther w
ounded
were in
serious co
nditio
n.
Wayne P
harr, 19, was w
ounded in the left arm, w
rist and the left p
ortio
n o
f his ch
est. Ro
land
Freem
an, 2
4, w
as sho
t in b
oth
arms.
To
mm
ye W
illiams, 1
9, w
as sho
t in b
oth
lees. Ren
ee Mo
ore. cu
t
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ou
do a
nyth
ing else w
hy n
ot ta
ke o
ut a
su
bscrip
tion to th
e Gu
ardian
. Th
e Gu
ardian
is not
a terro
rist org
an
izatio
n. B
ut w
e do su
pp
ly p
lenty
of in
form
atio
n to
revolu
tion
aries. T
ry u
s for 1
0
week
s. It only costs $1.
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p!
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ard
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. 4th
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ew Y
ork
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IBE
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OSE
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school
The n
ine m
en an
d tw
o w
om
en sleep
ing in
head
quarter ap
art-m
ents w
ere awak
ened
in th
e pre-d
awn d
arkness b
y th
e sound o
f gunfire sp
linterin
g th
e front d
oor. T
hey
jum
ped
from
their b
eds
without fully dressing and began shooting back. W
hen police fired tear an
d p
epper g
as into
the b
uild
ing th
ey d
id th
e best th
ey co
uld
w
ith two gas m
asks, passing them from
person to person. D
urin
g th
e battle th
e Pan
thers called
com
munity
and rad
ical org
anizatio
ns an
d sy
mpath
etic indiv
iduals, in
form
ing th
em o
f the
attack an
d u
rgin
g th
em to
gath
er near h
eadquarters at 4
115 S
. C
entral A
ve. as w
itnesses. T
hey
also called
all the p
ress in h
opes
the p
resence o
f reporters w
ould
deter p
olice fro
m m
urd
er. L
awyers an
d frien
ds o
f the P
anth
ers, inclu
din
g th
e Rev
. Blaise
Bonpan
e, a Rom
an C
atholic p
riest expelled
from
Guatem
ala two
years ag
o for sy
mpath
izing w
ith th
e guerrillas th
ere, interv
ened
w
ith p
olice to
allow
reporters to
be p
resent at th
e surren
der. T
he
press an
d o
ther civ
ilians h
ad b
een k
ept ab
out th
ree blo
cks aw
ay,
allegedly as a safety precaution. P
olice fin
ally relen
ted an
d allo
wed
reporters to
station th
em-
selves n
ear the b
uild
ing. In
form
ed o
f this b
y telep
hone, th
e P
anth
ers wav
ed a w
hite clo
th o
ut a w
indow
at 9:4
5 a.m
. and
firing ceased. B
onpan
e said th
at durin
g th
e hour h
e talked
with
police th
ey
were aw
aiting th
e com
man
d to
let go w
ith ev
eryth
ing th
ey h
ad,
inclu
din
g an
armed
helico
pter circlin
g o
verh
ead, a b
orro
wed
Na-
tional G
uard
perso
nnel carrier an
d o
ther co
unter-in
surg
ency
eq
uip
men
t. The C
atholic p
riest said o
ne o
f the m
ain reaso
ns
police fin
ally allo
wed
the P
anth
ers to su
rrender w
as "fear of
anoth
er Watts," a referen
ce to th
e black
rebellio
n in
the sam
e neig
hborh
ood in
1965. "R
eports w
ere com
ing in
of d
isturb
ances
all around th
e battle site," B
onpan
e recalled. "T
he p
olice w
ere
Tom
mye W
illiams, 1
9, w
as shot in
both
legs. R
enee M
oore, cu
t and bruised, suffered a m
iscarriage during the attack. Tight securi-
ty p
recautio
ns, su
ch as m
ounds o
f sandbag
s, pro
bab
ly p
reven
ted
the -P
anth
ers from
bein
g cu
t to p
ieces. Police ex
plo
ded
two
dynam
ite charg
es on th
e roof o
f the b
uild
ing b
ut w
ere unab
le to
, gain
entran
ce. T
he attack
on th
e Pan
ther h
eadquarters w
as the first b
attle assig
nm
ent fo
r the L
os A
ngeles p
olice d
epartm
ent's elite S
WA
T
(Special W
eapons and Tactics) S
quad. The group w
as formed tw
o years ago to com
bat ghetto insurgency. The squad receives special
military
trainin
g an
d w
eapons to
carry o
ut "m
issions in
volv
ing
great d
anger." T
heir u
nifo
rms co
nsist o
f black
jum
p su
its, black
cap
s, boots, b
ullet-p
roof v
ests or flack
jackets an
d m
ilitary-ty
pe
weapons, such as M
-16 rifles. T
he sp
ecial squad
beg
an d
eplo
yin
g aro
und 3
:30 a.m
., sur-
roundin
g th
e head
quarters an
d co
rdonin
g o
ff 16 b
lock
s in th
e vicinity. D
uring the fight, SW
AT
cops took up positions in nearby hom
es, behind cars and in stores. W
hen
the P
anth
ers emerg
ed fro
m th
e build
ing th
ey en
tered a
scene as ch
aotic as th
e dam
aged
office th
ey left. T
he streets w
ere littered
with
bro
ken
glass an
d d
ebris. "T
ell moth
er I love h
er," said W
ayne Pharr as he w
as being led'away.
Once the building w
as cleared, police "discovered" the Panther
arsenal. A
fter two h
ours alo
ne in
the h
eadquarters, p
olice in
vited
a rep
orter in
side to
observ
e the illeg
al weap
ons. T
he P
anth
ers in
sist, how
ever, th
at they
can p
roduce w
itnesses in
the n
eighbor-
hood w
ho saw
police carry
the w
eapons in
to th
e build
ing th
rough
a rear entran
ce. T
aken
to th
e police statio
n, th
e 13 fro
m P
anth
er head
quarters
were ch
arged
with
consp
iracy
com
mit m
urd
er, consp
iracy to
co
mm
it assault w
ith a d
eadly
weap
on u
pon a p
olice o
fficer, co
nsp
iracy to
possess illeg
al weap
ons an
d fiv
e counts o
f assault
with
a dead
ly w
eapon w
ith in
tent to
com
mit m
urd
er. They
are bein
g h
eld w
ithout b
ail. The eig
ht o
thers w
ere arraigned
on
vario
us ch
arges in
cludin
g co
nsp
iracy to
possess illeg
al weap
ons
and assau
lt with
a dead
ly w
eapon. T
heir to
tal bail is $
325,0
00.
The charge of conspiracy to possess illegal w
eapons and assault w
ith a deadly weapon w
as the original charge on which the search
and arrest w
arrants w
ere based
. This stem
s from
the N
ov: 2
8
(continued on page 18)
Seale
: we're
gro
win
g
"It's n
ot stifling th
e party
." T
hat w
as the co
mm
ent o
f Black
Pan
ther p
arty ch
air-m
an Bobby S
eale interviewed in a S
an Francisco jail last
week
by a rep
orter from th
e Wash
ington
Post ask
ing
abou
t recent p
olice attacks on
tne P
anth
ers. "
Th
e more th
ey attack,"
Seale said
, "th
e more su
p-
port w
e get... .Th
e more th
ey attack, th
e more b
ran-
ches w
e get."
GU
AR
DIA
N / D
EC
EM
BE
R 2
0, 1
969 / 3
Moderates, government react to Panther slayings T
he m
urd
er of tw
o B
lack P
anth
ers by C
hica-
go p
olice h
as set in m
otio
n a reactio
n th
at last w
eek reach
ed in
to th
e hig
hest lev
els of th
e U.S
. govern
men
t. A
s the p
ublic o
utcry
by b
lack m
ilitants an
d
moderate b
lack lead
ers inten
sified, th
e Justice
Dep
artmen
t Dec. 1
2 o
rdered
a prelim
inary
in-
vestig
ation in
to th
e Chicag
o sh
ootin
gs o
f Fred
H
am
pto
n, th
e Illin
ois c
hairm
an o
f the B
lack
Pan
ther p
arty an
d M
ark C
lark, a P
eoria P
anth
er lead
er.
Meanw
hile
, a n
um
ber o
f natio
nal fig
ure
s, in
cludin
g a fo
rmer S
uprem
e Court ju
stice and a
form
er A
ttorn
ey G
enera
l, were
expecte
d to
head
a "natio
nal co
mm
ission o
f inquiry
" into
th
e death
s of B
lack P
anth
ers and
"alleged
" po
-lice h
arassmen
t of th
e Black
Pan
ther p
arty.
The Ju
stice D
epartm
ent's a
nnouncem
ent
that th
e Civ
il Rig
hts D
ivisio
n o
f the d
epartm
ent
would
investig
ate follo
wed
requests fo
r such
—a stu
dy b
y R
oy W
ilkin
s, execu
tive d
irector o
f the
NA
AC
P, W
hitn
ey Y
oung Jr., h
ead o
f the U
rban
L
eague, Jo
hn G
wynnt„O
residen
t of th
e Illinois
NA
AC
P an
d T
hom
as Pico
u, m
anag
ing ed
itor o
f th
e Chicag
o D
efender, a b
lack C
hicag
o n
ews-
pap
er. M
any b
lack rad
icals expressed
the co
nvictio
n
such a
n in
vestig
atio
n w
ould
be a
. whitew
ash,
aim
ed a
t defu
sing te
nsio
ns in
the b
lack g
het-
tos—
especially
in C
hicag
o—
heig
hten
ed b
y th
e slay
ings.
Earlier in
the w
eek n
ine C
ongressm
en u
rged
P
resid
ent N
ixon to
exte
nd th
e life
of th
e N
a-
tional V
iolen
ce Com
missio
n, to
investig
ate the
Pan
ther k
illings. N
ixon ig
nored
the req
uests.
An in
dependent in
vestig
atio
n b
y so
me 3
0
moderate 'o
rgan
izations w
as announced
Dec. 1
2
by Ja
ck G
reenberg
, dire
cto
r-counse
l of th
e
NA
AC
P L
egal D
efense an
d E
ducatio
n F
un
d.
The N
ew
York
Tim
es re
porte
d D
ec. 1
3 th
at
Wilk
ins an
d A
rthur G
old
berg
, form
er Suprem
e C
ourt Ju
stice,• w
ould
be c
o-c
hairm
en o
f the
org
aniz
atio
n a
nd th
at R
am
sey C
lark
, form
er
Atto
rney G
enera
l, would
bea m
em
ber o
f its board
of d
irectors.
A sp
okesm
an fo
r the Ju
stice D
epartm
ent
said th
e prelim
inary
investig
ation b
y th
e dep
art-m
ent w
ould
try to
determ
ine w
heth
er Chicag
o
police h
ad co
mm
itted an
y fed
eral crime in
vio
-latio
n o
f civil rig
hts law
s. A
t the sam
e—tim
e, these w
ere these o
ther
dev
elopm
ents:
—S
ix b
lack U
.S. C
ongre
ssmen a
nnounced
that th
ey w
ould
com
e to
Chic
ago D
ec. 2
0 to
hold
an u
nofficial in
vestig
ation in
to th
e slayin
gs
to "ascertain
if the C
onstitu
tional rig
hts o
f the
Pan
thers h
ad b
een v
iolated
." —
Speak
ing in
Bow
ling -G
reen, K
y., Y
oung •
charg
ed th
at "a
natio
nal c
onsp
iracy" w
as in
pro
gress ag
ainst th
e Pan
thers.
—D
anie
l Mille
r, pre
sident o
f the C
hic
ago
United
Auto
Work
ers civil rig
hts 'co
uncil, called
th
e shootin
gs a "b
rutal an
d u
nw
arranted
slay-
ing." —
The M
ayor of Mayw
ood,111., Leonard C
ita-. bala, called
the k
illing o
f Ham
pto
n "a b
latant
act of leg
itimized
murd
er." —
The C
hicag
o N
AA
CP
dialed
the slay
ings "a •
modern
day
lynch
ing."
5,000 honor murdered Panthers
By C
lark Kissinger
Specia
l to th
e G
uard
ian
Chicag
o
A se
nse
of u
nity
unpara
llele
d in
the
black
com
munity
has d
evelo
ped
here in
th
e aftermath
of th
e slayin
g o
f Black
Pan
-th
ers Fred
Ham
pto
n an
d M
ark C
lark.
Over 5
000 p
eople filed
past th
e'coffin
of Illin
ois B
lack P
anth
er party
chairm
an
Ham
pto
n in
a mem
orial serv
ice last week
. A
ddressin
g th
e service, th
e Rev
. Ralp
h
Abern
athy, lead
er of th
e South
ern C
hris-
tian L
eadersh
ip C
onfe
rence, d
ecla
red:
"The n
atio
n th
at c
onquere
d N
azi G
er-
man
y is fo
llow
ing th
e same b
rutal co
urse
as Nazi G
erman
y."
Lookin
g d
ow
n a
t Ham
pto
n's b
ody,
Abern
athy em
otio
nally
into
ned
: "1 w
ant •
About 1
50 th
en m
arched
to p
olice h
ead-
quarters to
pro
test the slay
ings.
The d
ay a
fter th
e m
em
oria
l, the P
an-
thers co
nducted
a new
s conferen
ce, gav
e deta
ils of th
e a
ssassin
atio
n re
veale
d fo
r th
e first tim
e a
nd p
roduced e
vid
ence
dem
onstratin
g th
ere. was n
o "sh
ooto
ut,"
as police claim
ed, b
ut a "sh
oot-in
." B
obby R
ush
, actin
g c
hairm
an o
f the
Illinois B
lack P
anth
er p
arty
, said
that
state attorn
ey E
dw
ard H
anrah
an, w
ho
or-
dered
the raid
, Rich
ard Jalo
vec, ch
ief of
Han
rahan
's special p
rosecu
tion u
nit an
d
judge R
obert C
ollin
s, who issu
ed th
e
searc
h o
rder fo
r the ra
id, "c
onsp
ired to
m
urd
er" the P
anth
ers along w
ith 1
4 p
o-
licemen
who raid
ed th
e apartm
ent.
bune an
d its fo
llow
ers adhere to
the p
o-
lice versio
n o
f the k
illings b
ut h
ave b
een
forc
ed to
accept th
e in
evita
bility
of a
n
outsid
e investig
ation—
though th
e object
would
be an
investig
ation w
hich
would
su
pport th
e o
fficia
l story
and sto
p th
e
criticism. T
he o
ther sid
e main
tains an
in-'
vestig
atio
n m
ust h
e in
dependent o
f the
Chicag
o p
olice. T
heir co
ncern
is that th
e police acco
unt is so
transp
arent th
at un-
less lib
era
ls take th
e le
ad in
critic
ism it
may fa
ll into
more
radic
al h
ands w
ho
mig
ht b
e able to
galv
anize th
e black
com
-m
unity
into
takin
g actio
n.
The d
ay fo
llow
ing R
ush
's revelatio
ns,
the T
ribune ran
a pag
e 1 "ex
clusiv
e" pur-
portin
g to
substan
tiate th
e
polic
e re
port
Thre
e o
f 21 L
os A
ngele
s priso
ners, a
ppre
hended fo
ur d
ays a
fter C
hica
go m
urd
ers.
Lo
okin
g d
ow
n a
t Ha
mp
ton
's b
od
y,
Abern
ath
y e
motio
nally
into
ned: "I w
ant
to tell y
ou th
is, F
reddy--y
ou d
idn't d
ie in
vain
. We're
goin
g to
see to
it that y
ou d
id
not d
ie in
vain
. But I d
on't th
ink y
ou'll
rest in
pe
ace
, Fre
dd
y, be
cau
se th
ere
isn't
goin
g to
he a
ny p
eace
." H
am
pto
n, 2
1 a
nd C
lark
, 22, w
ere
cut
dow
n in
a p
olic
e ra
id o
n a
Panth
er o
ffice-
resid
ence in
the e
arly
hours
of D
ec. 4
.. F
our o
ther p
arty
mem
bers
were
wound-.
ed
. Po
lice cla
im se
lf-de
fen
se, b
ut in
crea
s-in
g e
vidence
poin
ts to m
urd
er.
Thousands o
f bla
ck C
hic
agoans h
ave
be
en
ad
mitte
d to
the
ap
artm
en
t to v
iew
th
e b
ulle
t ho
les in
the
wa
ll, the
blo
od
y
bed
wh
ere Ham
pto
n w
as slain an
d o
ther
evid
ence in
the b
uild
ing p
oin
ting•to
con-
tradictio
ns in
the o
fficial po
lice story
. B
lack stu
dents a
t a n
um
ber o
f hig
h
sch
oo
ls stag
ed
mass w
alk
ou
ts to a
tten
d
the m
emorial. A
t Harriso
n H
igh S
chool,
1400 s
tudents
walk
ed o
ut a
fter th
e
sch
oo
l prin
cip
al re
fuse
d to
allo
w a
me-
mo
rial service fo
r Ham
pto
n an
d C
lark.
1 C
I111.1
1,1
3 a
rwIg
IIV IS
IS I T
!icemen
wh
o ra
ide
d th
e a
pa
rtme
nt.
Rush
said a tru
cklo
ad o
f state's attor-
ney
po
lice, a
rmed
with
mach
ineg
un
s, w
aite
d o
utsid
e th
e a
partm
en
t un
til the
ligh
ts were tu
rned
ou
t insid
e. He said
Sg
t. D
aniel G
roth
, who led
the raid
ing p
arty,
wen
t to th
e b
ack
do
or. W
hen
'som
eo
ne
insid
e asked
, "Wh
o is it?," G
roth
answ
er-ed, "T
om
my." A
sked, "T
om
my w
ho?"
Gro
th rep
lied,-"T
om
my g
un." W
ith th
at,
Rush
said, p
olice b
rok
e into
the fro
nt a
nd
b
ack d
oo
rs, firing
wild
ly. C
lark
was slain
alm
ost im
med
iately.
"W
here
's Ham
pto
n—
is he d
ead?"
shouted
policem
an Jam
es Dav
is. "I don't
kn
ow
," replied
ano
ther co
p. "H
e's still in
the b
edro
om
." Dav
is, accord
ing to
Rush
. ra
ced
into
the b
ed
roo
m, fire
d sh
ots a
nd
em
erg
ed
mo
men
ts late
r, co
mm
en
ting
, "W
ell, if h
e w
asn
't dead
then
, he's d
ead
now
." R
ush
stated th
at the P
anth
ers did
not
engag
e in a g
unfig
ht an
d th
at the p
olice
did
all the sh
ootin
g.' T
he en
tire episo
de
took fiv
e min
utes.
A sp
lit seem
s to h
av
e d
ev
elo
ped
in
Chicag
o's ru
ling class o
ver th
e murd
er. On
on
e side is th
e ultra-reactio
nary
Ch
icago
T
ribune, w
hic
h h
as b
ecom
e a
virtu
al
spo
kesm
an fo
r Han
rahan
and
the p
olice.
On th
e oth
er are the M
arshall F
ield n
ews-
pap
ers (the S
un
Tim
es and
Daily
New
s), less reactio
nary
elemen
ts and
liberals su
ch
as Sen
. Ch
arles Percy
, .Ad
lai Stev
enso
n
3rd
and sev
eral Congressm
en. T
he T
ri-
LA
SS
.,
i!u""., "
c" a
Nag.,
I
portin
g to
substa
ntia
te th
e p
olic
e re
port
with
new
details. H
anrah
an h
ad g
iven th
e
Trib
un
e p
olic
e p
ho
tog
rap
hs a
nd
allo
we
d
the
ne
wsp
ap
er to
inte
rviL
w p
olic
e w
ho
m
ade th
'e
a c
ou
rtesy h
e d
id n
ot
exte
nd to
the F
ield
papers.
Th
e p
ho
tos s
ho
we
d th
e b
ack d
oo
r w
ith h
ole
s in
it, 'indic
atin
g th
e P
anth
erS
fire
d fro
m th
e insid
e; the fro
nt d
oo
r with
a larg
e hole in
it, alleged
ly fro
m a sh
otg
un
bla
st from
insid
e a
nd a
bath
room
door
pu
nt-fitted
with
bu
llet ho
les, said to
hav
e -b
et fired b
y P
anth
ers. T
he n
ext d
ay th
e Field
pap
ers dem
on-
strate
d th
e d
esc
riptio
ns o
f the p
hoto
s w
ere phoney
. The h
oles in
the h
ack d
oor
turn
ed o
ut to
be n
ails, th
e h
ole
in th
e
front d
oor w
as show
n to
he fro
m en
try,
not ex
it and th
e "bath
room
door" tu
rned
o
ut to
be a
bed
roo
m d
oo
r op
en
at th
e
time o
f the ra
id a
nd
hit b
y p
olic
e m
a-
chin
egun fire co
min
g th
rough- th
e bed
-ro
om
wall.
The first leg
al confro
ntatio
n is lik
ely
to tak
e place th
is Week
at the co
roner's
inquest. T
he C
ook C
ounty
coro
ner-
describ
ed as a "m
achin
e hack
"— h
as been
ask
ed b
y th
e Ch
icago
Bar A
ssociatio
n to
ste
p a
side so
a sp
ecia
l co
ron
er
can h
e
appoin
ted in
this ca
se.
Six o
f the se
ven su
rvivors o
f the p
olice
"s
earc
h a
nd d
estro
y" a
ttack a
re s
till in
jail. C
ontrib
utio
ns fo
r baita
nd to
help
the
Chic
ago p
arty
may b
e s
ent to
2350.W
. M
adiso
n S
t., Chicag
o, Ill. 6
0612.
Su
pp
ort g
row
s in
S.F
. G
uard
ian W
est C
oast B
ure
au
San F
rancisco T
his p
ast w
eek h
as se
en a
n u
npre
cedente
d e
xpre
ssion o
f outra
ge a
nd
support fo
r the
Bla
ck Pa
nth
er p
arty in
the
Sa
n F
ran
cisco B
ay a
rea
as a
re
sult o
f the L
os A
ng
ele
s po
lice d
epa
rtme
nt a
ttack o
n th
e P
anth
er o
ffice
there
Dec. 8
. S
eve
ral h
undre
d su
pporte
rs asse
mble
d o
utsid
e o
f Panth
er o
ffices in
San
Fra
ncisco
and B
erke
ley th
e d
ay o
f the L
os A
ngele
s gunfig
ht in
resp
onse
to
rum
ors o
f possib
le p
olice
atta
ck. The S
an F
rancisco
Panth
er o
ffice re
port-
ed a
n u
nusu
al n
um
ber o
f police
were
conce
ntra
ted in
the a
rea. A
police
h
elic
op
ter w
as s
ee
n h
ove
ring
ab
ove
the
offic
e. A
t the
sa
me
time
, 15
0
people
gath
ere
d o
utsid
e n
atio
nal P
anth
er h
eadquarte
rs in B
erke
ley.
The vig
ils contin
ued th
roughout th
e w
eek o
n a
24-h
our-a
-day b
asis. A
t w
eek's e
nd, th
ey b
eca
me m
ore
org
anize
d a
nd a
system
of ch
ain
tele
phone
calls w
as b
ein
g in
troduce
d to
ensu
re th
e p
rese
nce
of a
t least 2
0 su
pporte
rs a
t all tim
es. T
he
vigil is to
be
con
tinu
ed
ind
efin
itely.
Th
e N
atio
na
l La
wye
rs G
uild
an
no
un
ce
d th
at th
ere
will b
e a
ttorn
eys
pre
sen
t on
a 2
4-h
ou
r-a-d
ay b
asis a
t bo
th o
ffices. In
a sta
tem
en
t De
c. 1.1
, th
e B
ay A
rea
cha
pte
r of th
e G
uild
de
clare
d: "T
he
so-ca
lled
viole
nt re
cord
o
f the
Pa
nth
ers is a
myth
. Th
e vio
len
ce a
ssocia
ted
with
the
Pa
nth
ers a
s an
org
aniza
tion h
as co
me fro
m p
olice
atta
cks on th
e P
anth
ers."
4 / D
EC
EM
BE
R 2
0, 1
969 / G
UA
RD
IAN
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