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. ) -NITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSsICE *. FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Buffalo, New York June 7, 1963 . ‘NATION OF ISLAM ROCHESTER, NEW YORK Rochester, = = on = - = — = = assault trial regarding the fifteen Nation of Islam members had been tried in Monroe County Court in Rochester, before acting Monroe County Judge GERALD S. HEWITT, beginning May 14, 1963, and ending May 21, 1963, with a deadlocked jury. Retrial was tenittively set for late in June, 1963; and the defendents were continued on bail. . Those being tried had previously been indicted by a Monroe County Grand Jury for assaulting two Rochester Police Officers, who on January 6, 1963, had answered a "trouble call" at 302 North Street, while a Nation of Islam meeting was in progress. A characterization of the Nation of Islam is included in the appendix hereto. According to PEEP tonr- Co e ee . ROSEITTHAL initially assigned and as defense counsél for a efendénts. gned later by the wmurt were: ALL INFOP"’=I0N GONFAINES INFei ON GONFAIN HERE. 3s AS ig BY pid ee: that all but one’ of the Nation of Isi members arrested February 8, 1963, had been released February 15, 1963 on $500.00 bail each, which money was provided by the National Leader, ELIJAH MUHAMMAD, of Chicago, Illinois. , i o This decument contains neither rsscmmen- _ daliuns nor conclusiuns of the FEI. [t is the Property of the FHI and is loaned to your agency; it and ils contents are not to be dig. tributed outside your agency,