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i APPENDIX \ According to its offtictal newspaper, the Black Panther Party (BPP) was started during December, L966, in Oukland, Culifornia, to organize black people su they can take control of the life, politics, and the destiny of the black community. It was organized by BOBBY GORGE SEALE, BPP Chairman, and HULY P. NEWTON, BPP Minister of Defense. NEWTON is presently serving a sentence of 2 to 15 years on a conviction of manslaughter 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 vuns und guerrilla tactics in its revolutionary program to end oppression of the black people. Residents of the black community are urged to arm themselves aguinst the police who ure 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 Educition, GEORGE MASON MURRAY, i which ends with the following: “Black men. Black people, colored persons of America, revolt everywhere: Arm yourselves. The only culture worth keeping ts a revolutionary culture. Change. Freedom everywhere, Dynamite: Black Power, Use the yun. Kill the pigs everywhere," Included in the introduction to an article appearing in the October 5, 1968, edition of “The Black Panther" ts the statement,".....we whll not dissent from American Government, We will overthrow it." Issues of "The Black Panther” rugularly contain quotations from the writings of Chuirman 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 3106 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, California, Branches have been established at various locations throughout the United States, ~ 168 -