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; f. | 3 ‘APPENDIX BLACK PANTHER PARTY,aka Black Panther Party for Self-Defense According to its official newspaper the Black Panther Party (BPP) was started during December, 1966 in Oakland, Cali- fornia, to organize black people so they can take control of: the life, politics and the destiny of the black comnunity. It was . organized by BOBBY GEORGE SEALE, BPP Chairman, and HUEY P. NEWTON, BPP Minister of Defense. NEWTON is presently serving a sentence of two to fifteen 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 itsif as the "Black Community News Service," stated that the BPP advocates the use of guns and guerrilla tactics in its revolutionary program to end oppression of the biack 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. 7 "The Black Panther" issue of September 7, 1968, contains an editorial by BPP Minister of Education, GEORGE MASON MURRAY which ends wth the following: “Black Men. Biack people, colored persons of America, re- volt everywhere: Arm yourselves. The only culture worth keeping is revolutionary culture. Change, Freedom everywhere. Dynamite! Black Power. Use the gun. Kill the pigs everywhere:" Iacluded in the introduction to an article appearing in the October5, 1968, edition of"the Black Panther" is the statement, “",.-We will not dissent from American Government. We will overthrow it.” 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 MOA‘s statement that "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” The national headquarters of the BPP is located at 3106 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, California. Branches have been established at various locations throughout the United States.