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pe [mm BLACK PANTHER PARTY LPL ‘ According to its official newspaper, the Black Panther Party (BPP) was started during December, 1966, in Oakland, California, to organize black people so they can take control of the life, politics, and the destiny of the black community. ~ It was organized by BOBBY GEORGE SEALE, BPP Chairman, and HUEY P, NEWTON, BPP Minister of Defense. NEWTON is presently serving a sentence of 2 to 15 years on a conviction of man- slaughter in connection with the killing of an Oakland police officer. The official newspaper, “The Black Panther," which further describes itself as the "Black Community News Service," states-that the BPP advocates the use of guns and guerrilla tactics in its revolutionary program to end oppression of the black people. Residents of the black community are urged to arm themselves against the police who are consistently referred to in the publication as "pigs" who should be killed. "The Black Panther" issue of September 7, 1968, contains an editorial by BPP Minister of Education, GEORGE MASON MURRAY, which ends with the following: "Black men. Black people, colored persons of America, revolt everywhere! Arm yourselves. The only culture worth keeping is a revolutionary cuiture Change. -Freedom everywhere. Dynamite! Black Power. Use the gun, Kili the pigs everygnere." “+ Included in the introduction to an article appearing in the October 5, 1968, edition of "The Black Panther" is the statement, ‘*'...we will not dissent from American Government. Wa wilt avarthroaw it it ia Wiits AJFOEA LA @t Issues of "The Black Panther" regularly contain quotations from the writings of Chairman MAO Tse-tung of the People's Republic of China and feature MAO's statement that “political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." The national headquarters of the BPP is located at Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, California. Branches have been lished at various locations throughout the United States. ‘ | : rome ae . ql ‘ Fx a “ * ~ . 7 + - * «© Be ay ee . ar - te - 2 . ee wc ~ oD - . . ree Ty ee ale a es ~ Pat . / a te ye tat . ay er hee Mee ae ete ot oe . Viet: Petes mrs . va - * ya LR net ~~ ~, wh ge . ‘ a rs se sie . Ate > ac wee! + ‘7 PO ee Se Be yh ae tee @ ao CED oe call ape os wee ee we