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Salt 2- = APPENDIX BLACK PANTHER PARTY According to ita official newsptrer, the Black Panther Party (BPP) was started duriug Gecember, 1966; in Oakland, California, to organize black peaplie so they can take control of the life, politics, and the destiny of the black community. It was organized by BOBBY GEORGE SEALE, BPP Chairman, and HUEY P. NEWTON, BPP Minister of Defense. NEWTON is presently serving a sentence of 2 to 15 years on a conviction of manslaughter in coanection with the xillirg of an Oakland police officer. : . -* The official nevspaper, ‘The Black Panther," which further describes itself 25 ihe “Black Commuaity News Service," states that the APP advocates whe use ef gous and guerrilla tactics in its revolutionary program to esd oppression of the black people. Residents of tne black cormupity are urged to arm themselves against the police whe are consistently referred to in the publication as "pigs" who stould be killed, "The Black Panther" issue of September 7, 1968, contains an editorial by BPP Minister of Education, GEORGE MASON MURRAY, which ends with the following: “Black men. Black people, cclored persons of America, revolt everywhere! Arm yourselves. The only culture worth keeping is a revolutionary culture. Change. Freedow everywhere. Dynamite! Black Power. Use the gun. Kill the pigs everywhere." Included in the introduction to an article appearing in the October 5, 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" reguarly contain quotations from the writings of Chairman MAO Tse-tung of the People's Republic of China and feature #AO's statement that “political power grows out of the barre] of a gun." The national headyvarters of the BPP is located at 3106 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, California. Branches have been established at various locations throughout the United States.