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CurrebeH oungUL Swot |. Inside the flat, police were now shooting from frontandrear. ~ e | e | continued from page 71 Davis shot Clark twice, using his .30 a ted ca ius nination was provided b ‘inima! imi was y a space heater, but gunshots lit up the room a little better. At some point, Groth stuck his re- volver around the doorjamb of the in- side door and fired at Harris without . looking at her. Also, at some point, Bell jumped up from the living room floor and he, too, ran to Hampton's bedroom. In the back, Detective Edward Car- mody said he heard a shotgun blast from the front and immediately kicked in the kitchen door. He said he saw three flashes, heard three shots and saw a hand pointing a gun at him from the dining room. The three shots came from this gun, Carmody contended. Ia 1969, some Americans considered the Black Panthers to be charming or heroic, and others thought them ludicrous. Most policemen considered them vicious and a serious danger.. : At one point during the celebrated free breakfast program in San Francis- * co, black children were given coloring bing a policeman in the back. Seale said he ordered the books with- drawn when he learned of their con- tents. ’ Clppings pinned towaillin Hampton's apartment told of earlier gun 145% am battle with Black Panthers in which two Chicago policemen were killed. A quick survey of Tribune news clip- pings from 1968 and 1969 before the raid turned up descriptions of e gun- battles nationally between police and Panthers in which 18 policemen were reported shot, three fatally. Ten Pan- thers were also shot, five fatal- ly. Four of these incidents occurred in Chicago. Also mentioned was a sniping. attack on two policemen in New York, alleged- ly by Panthers, and three Panthers ar- rested for allegedly machine-gunning a police station in Jersey City: In 1968, Huey Newton was convicted of manslaughter in the death of an Oakland policeman who had stopped Newton's car for a traffic viola- tion. The most dire incident from the point of view of Chicago policemen occurred Nov. 13, 1969, less than a month before the raid. Officers John Gilhooly and Francis Rappaport were shot to death in a battle with in a vacant, South Side building. Panther, Spur- 2 geon (Jake) Winters was killed; and another, Lance Bell, was wounded. The police said they were fired on without warning. In their publications, the Pan- thers portrayed Winters as a hero. Inside 2337 W. Monroe St., the police were now shooting from front and rear. Officer Joseph Gorman had entered the front with the machine gun and officer George Jones with a shotgun. Groth had re-entered. In the rear, following Car- mody, were detectives John Ciszewski, Raymond Broderick, anid William Cor- bett. The police continued They contended the Panihers did also. Groth called several cease fires, re- membered both sides. Each time, ac- cording to police, someone in the apart- ment yelled, “Shoot it out,” and the shooting resumed. The Panthers do not recall anyone saying, “Shoot -it out.” The police said they were fired on by persons in both north and south bed- rooms as well as earlier by persons in the living room and dining room. ~ (No evidence was ever found of Pan- ther shots from either of the bedrooms or the dining room.)