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Jit cooole141 | ee > meee * wes woos waaae x XN ~ 2). BORBY GEORGE SFALE . pid Bobby Seale, the ouly ferre among the "Chleare %" defendants being pres ecuted under the 1963°Civil Rights Act's antl-riot rro- wiefons for his activities in Chicago during tie Lemeerntic National Canvenbton, - was bern on 22 October 1936 in Tal les, Texic.. The tilrty- three year old Scale has‘an arrest recor] dating from 1955, which re- flects a history of violence and involvement in b)ack nationalist gfctivitics in the San Francjsco Bay area, particularly in Oaklend. Seole was enrolled for one semester in 16G%-1955 ns n probi- ticnary ‘student at Merritt Junlor Colleg? in Ockland, Celffornia, and . while there shored ovarters with an active member of the Revolutionary Action Movement (FA), o seeret, all-z ecro, Marxtst-feninist, Fevinge . ertenged grow which adveertes guevilln warfare to obtain its earls. Sealof van said to be"a memter of the now defunct RAY end) is known to have! Jolned in seme of its activities. . In December, 1966, Scale _together with Huey PT. teeton founiet the} Rack Panther Farty for Self Defense, in Onriginnd. This orecni- . zation, which follows the revelutionary precepts of vac Tse-turg and olher vorld revolution rics 3, is a black, ant. -AmerLenn, extremist , . €reup vhose menhers, openly armed, deliberate)y rroveke confrenta- ; tions wilh peliec, thr ‘caten nation-wide assasctantion of police, ad : pian the ultimete destruction of the Government. of the United States ' throtigh a series of sustaingd. urban gucrillin actions. The headquar- ters of the group, which since 1968 has been known a& the Black fan- ther Party, is in OnkJond, California. Branches, however, have been - opened in various parts of the country. ° Seale, Wational Chainnon of the Black Panther farty whf{ch is ° | ” currnitly the most active nnd powerful of the netionsl] black redtenl y. organtenttoras, has been o lender in the Farty since ils incention. le kecame tts chief spokesman when Hucy Rewton was nrrested in Getober 19467 for the murder of an Oakland police officer. With Reston An prison and Fldriage Cleaver out of the country efter heuine jumred boll In December 1963 while under indictment for atlewwted murder | and aasanltewith a deadly werpon, he is the undisputen head of the Truthers—although he, too, Ls under indietaent in connection stth the muger -f a fellow Panther. During the 196% Presidential em- ricn, Sele camprigned) actively for Clesver, the coalition candtdate of the Mack Panther and Pe&tce and Freedom Terttes. . .¢