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APPENDIX BLACK PANTHER PARTY FORMERLY 1uloun AS THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY FOR SELPF-DRFENSE I Te The Dlack Panther Party (BPP), organized in December, 1966, at Oalland, California, by ilucy P. Newton and Bobby George Seale, has the publicly-stated purpose of organizing black people to take control of the life, politics and destiny of the black community. The Party, operating the Blac: Panther Intercomiminal News Service, publishes a newspaper called “The Black Panther," which at one time openly advocated the use of guns and gucrrilla tactics in a revolutionary program to end the oppression of the black people but since early 1971 has spoken for a survival program pending, revolution. BPP national headmarters, aka Black Panther Intercomnunal ' Headquarters, is located in Oakland, California, oF While openly advocating direct overthrow of the . U. S. Government by force and violence until 1971, leaders have since avoided extreme statements in favor of calling for action within the established order. Newton, in an interview appearing in the May, 1973, issue of "Playboy" magazine, stated the Panthers' chief ambition is to change the American Government by any means necessary but that a] ultimately such chunge will be through armed violence. Despite its claimed dedication to community service, indicators of the LPP's continued attraction to violence persist. Since July, 1974, Newton and other BPP members have been arrested in Oakland, California, for threatening police officers, murder of a 17-year old female and the pistol whipping of Newton's tailor. Newton failed to appear on these charges and is now a local fupitive. Additionally, one died and three were wounded as a result of a shooting at a BPP-sponsored C dance in Oakland, California, in October, 1974. RUM, 3S 2x APPENDIX