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oe a an ; AM TES ey as . ee ‘ on . 1 en ed at et ee ee ~~ NY 100-161445 ‘ MONE ENTIAL f Sea lee In response to a question by the moderator as to why he was not in jai, the subject stated in part as follows: ; "I'm not in jail because five hundred thousand y brothers and sisters of mine took to the streets and burned the Bank of America and other state institutions in the country. And at that particular time in history, the Government found it more expeditious to let us out than to keep us in at that time. But we havea number of trials, I just noted that I lost one in Chicago, and I have two coming up in New York and Bobby Seale one of the eight is faced with the electric chair in a framed up charge in New Haven. And Timothy Leary, I think hems been on this show..." In response to e statement by the moderator that he was provoking people and instilling fear into a large majority of people in America the subject answéred as follows: "I don't know how much is a majority we never got a chance to test that in a court because we were not tried by @ jury of our peers. When the verdict came down we tried by a jury of our peers in the street. And as I said half a million people came out in protest of the trial because they felt basically that they were on trial with us and the whole generation was on trial. We tried by a jury whose average age was 52, the judge I think was 75 which was a young chickcompared to like Doctor Spock and their conspiracy trial where their judge was like 86. You know they're very rich millionaries who live in a certain part of tow and see a certain kind.of reality and when they got to the juryroom two jurors said right off that we should be shot because of the way we dressed. Four people still think that we are innocent but they are liberals. They think that to this day we are innocent, but they say well the law is unconstitutional it'll be decided later. It!s just what the good German said." : | The New York "Daily News" in its Merch 28, 1970: issue on page 9 contained an article entitled "gember of the chiceee 7 Is Flagged Down by CBS" which stated in ‘Part as follows: i . ‘ - 57 z i UUNeD TAL