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NY 105-8999 DBD. Miscellaneous NOT Activity 1. Trial Involving NOL Members in Buffalo, New York The October 17, 1962, edition of the "New York Times", a daily newspaper published in New York, New York, contained an article which reflected that five Negro inmates of New York's Attica Prison, appearec in Federal Court in Buffalo, New York, on October 16, 1952, to press their charges that New York State was violating their civil rights by not allowing them to practice their Black Muslim faith. Subject was described in the article as Minister of Temple Number 7, and a national representative of ELIJAH MUHAMMAD, who was a spectatoz in the courtroom, The October 19, 1962, edition of the “New York Amsterdem News', a weekly Negro nevspaper published in New York, New York, contained an article on the trial in the United States District Court for the Western District of New York, Buffalo, New York, which indicated that Negro inmates of Attica Prison are suing to force State (New York) officials to permit them to practice their religion in prison, and the article indicated that subject was expected to be called as a witness, The October 20, 1962, edition of the "Chicago Defender", a daily Nezgro newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, contained an article relative to the trial of five Muslims in Federal Court, Buffalo, New York. «This | article indicated that subject testified as a witness and quoted him as saying in his testimony thaf God caused an airliner to crash in Paris last summer to punish the white men for shooting seven members of the NOX in Los Angeles a week earlier, This response of subject's, according to the article, was given to a question as to whether or not he had declared the death of the 130 persons, 114 from Atlanta, Georgia, in a June 1962 plane crash in Paris,was a beautiful thing. ” PT EE ETE ON, co) Ce a er