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-- “BIACK PANTHER PARTY (BPP), also known as Black Panther Party for Self-Defense According to the official newepaper of the BPP, the . , BPP was started during Decembér, 1966, in Oakland, California, to organize black people so they can take control of the life, politics, and the destiny of the black community. It was organized by BOBBY G. SEALE, BPP Chairman, and HUEY P. NEWTON, Minister of Defense, BPP. : The official newspaper, called "The Black Panther," regularly states that the BPP advocates the use of gung and guerrilla tactics in ita revolutionary program to end oppression of the black people. Residents of the bleck community are urged to arm themselves against the policé-who , are consistently referred to as "pigs" who eghould be killed. - The newspaper, in its issue of September 7, 1968, had an article by the then Minister of Education, GEORGE MURRAY. This article ended with the following: "Black men, Black people, colored persons of America, revolt everywhere! Arm yourselves. The only culture worth keeping 4s revolutionary culture. Change. Freedom everywhere. Dynamite! Black power. Use the gun. Kill the pigs everywhere." The BPP newepaper, issue of October 5, 1958, had an article introduced with the following statement: "We will not digsent from American govern- ment. We will overthrow it." DAVID HILLIARD, Chief of Staff, BPP, in a spe@ch at the San Francisco Polo Field on November 15, 1969, said "We will kill Richard Nixon." DAVID HILLIARD; in the "New York Times," issue of December 13, 1969, was quoted as follows: "We advocate the very direct overthrow of the government by way of force and violence," z ed In the iseue of April 25, 1970, the BPP newspsper had an article by 4 Minister of Culture EMORY DOUGLAS as follows: | "The only way to make this racist US governuent administer justice to the people it is oppressing, is. . . by taking up arms against this government, killing the officials, until thé reactionary forces. . .are dead, and those that are left turn their weapons on their superiors, thereby passing revolutionary judgement against the number one enemy of all mankind, the racist U. S. government." { i The BPP Headquartere is located at 1046 Peraita Street, Oakland, California. Branchee of the BPP, and Committees to Combat Fascism, under - control of the BPP, have been established in various locations in the USA. Yee