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<2 2°1,)')? Se BLACK PANTHER PARTY (BPP), also known as Black Panther Party for Self Defense - According to the official newspaper of the BPP, Seat aaenaned the BPP was started during December, 1966, in Oakland, 7 - California, to organize black people 80 they ean take control — of the life, politics, and the destiny of the black poate er It was organized by Bobby G. Seale, BPP Chairman, and Huey Pp. Newton, Minister of Defense, BPP. : . The official newspaper, called "The Black Panther," regularly states that the BPP advocates the use of guns and guerrilla tactics in its revolutionary program to end oppression of the black people. Residents of the black community are urged to arm themselves against the police who are consistently referred to as "pigs" who should 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 is revolutionary culture. Change. Freedom everywhere. Dynamite! Black power, Use the gun. Kil the pigs everywhere.” The BPP ‘newspaper, issue of October 5, 1968, had an article introduced with the following statement: ‘We will not dissent from American government. We will overthrow at." David Hilliard, Chief of Staff, BPP, ina speech at the San Francisco Polo Field on November 15, 1969, said “We will kill Richard Nixon." David Hilliard, in the "New York Times," iscue of December 13, 1969, was quoted as follows: “We advocate the very direct overthrow of the governnent by way of force and = violence." - : . een ae Lo F2.00™