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Tat SR Saad Pare eae EE ale ee ae a EO Seam aa ae ade A dn A OD ae SP he oe a 7 % — § ne “@ Te. ts “4g. . : 2 we . 2 2 3 4 statenent: - & " =. 6 On March 7, 1974, I had ny ‘first contict with” phe .8. I. 7} This contact came in the form of a note attached to, my €ront door 8 at 2730-79th Avenue, Oakland, requesting my husband "alig“me to con- 9} tact them because they wanted to talk with us. We contacted the lo Lawyer's Listening Post for advice and were oxfered legal services 12] by one Roderic Duncan, an attorney. He agreed that we could use his office to meet with theNe. BS. and find out what it was they wanted. ‘This meeting took placb.thévafternoon of March 8, 1974, . Ry During the discussion with Mr. Duncan, ¥é determined and agreed that the only guestions we would answer would. be questions deai- ‘ing with the BCA, Consequently, the first meeting dealt basically with the Bca/Which was the only knowledge we. had. April 1, 1974, Ne — mo our house on 79th Ave. was set afire. My husband and x were out of town at the tinsene ad been for a couple days. The children were visiting relatives ° The O.P.D. suggested to us that it was : an arson fire and asked if we knew who might have set our house afire., We had no idea who would have wanted to do it. “Later, a — (pepotter informed our attorney that the 0.P.D. intelligence unit ‘had *keelUnvestigating the fire ‘but were called off by the F.B.I. “Sa, ate “wptlt, sich |bime as they were finished with us. Por two weeks we _ | . “Sy, é werétwithout a place to live. Then, on April 17, 1974, we were contacted by our insurance agent at my brother's house in Oakland and informed that he had rented two suites for us in Jack London Inn on Broadway and New Enbarcadero in Oakland. We moved in that night. Originally, when we moved in, there were abort four Black : maids that Servec the fourth floor, where we were housed. an 7 about three @ays two white maids were added who appearcd to