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According to its Official newspaper. the Black Panther Party (BPF) was started during becembor 1966. in Oakiand. California, to organize black people so they can take control of the life. politics. and the destiny of the biack community. It was organized by BOBBY GEORGE SEALE, BRP Chairman. and HUEY F. NEWTON, BPF Minister of Defense. NEWTON 1s presently serving a sentence of 2 to 15 yéars on a conviction of Manslaughter in connection with the killing of an Oakland police officer. The official newsperer, “The Black Panther.” which further describes itself as the “Biack Community News Service states that the BPP advocates the use of guns and guerilia 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 in the publication as “pigs” who should be kis ied a "The Black Panther” issue of Septenber 7. 1968 contains an editorial by BPP Minister of Education, GEORGE MASON MURRAY, which ends with the foljJ owing: “Black men. Black people, colored persons of America, revolt. everywhere: Arm yourselves. The only culture worth keeping 18 4 revolutionary culture. Change. Freedom everywhere - Dynamite. Black Power. Use the gun. Kili the pigs everywhere.” Inc] uded in the introduction to an article appearing in the October 5, 1968, editiun of "The Black Panther” is the statement, “..-we will not dissent from American Government .- We will overthrow it." Issues Of "The Black Panther” reguiarly contain quotations from the writings of Chairman MAO Tse-tung of the People’s Republic of China and feature MAO’s statement that “political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” The national headquarters cf the BFF 1s located at 3106 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, Calafernia. Branches have been established at various locations threughout the United States. G*