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cetyl qrorniee’s i swe on Ox 2resp1x Im BLACK PANTHER PARTY According to its officia} news , the Black Panther Party (BPP) was started during December, 1956. in Oakiaad, California, to organize black people so they cua take control of the life. patitics. and the destiny of tne black community. It was organized by BOBBY GEORGE SEALE. BPP Chiirman and HUEY P, NEWTON, BPP Minister of Defense. NEWTON is prescntiy serving a sentence of 2 to 15 years on a conviction of man- Slaughter in connection with the killing of an Oakland police officer. The official newspaper, "The Black Panther," which further describes itself as the "Black Community News Service," states that the BPP advocates the use of guns and guerrilla tactics in its revolutionary program to end cppreca:on of the black people. Residents of the black co pity are urged to arm themselves against the police who are consintencly referred to in the publication as "pigs" who should be killed e Black Panther" issue of Seprember 7. 13968, contains an cditorial by BPP Minister cf Education, GEORGE MASON MURRAY, which ends with the follewing: “Black men. Black people, colored persons ot America, revolt everywhere! Arm yourselves The only culture worth keeping is a revolu7tionury culture Change. Freedom everywhere. Dyramite! Black Power. Use the gun. Kili the pigs everywhere." Included in the introduction to an art .cie appearing in the October 5, 1968, edition of "The Biack Pasther” is the statement, "...we will not dissent from American Government. We will overthrow it." Issues of "The Black Panther" regelariy contaia quotations from the writings of Chairman MSO Tse-tung of the People's Republic of China and feature MAO'S Statemest that “political power grows out of the barrei of a gun." The national headquarters of the BPP is located at 3106 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, Californi2. Branches have been established at various locations throughout ihe United States. we