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it + ( | fc < . AL According to its official newspaper, the Black Peuther Party (BPP) was started during December, 1966, in Cakland, California, to organize black people so they can take control of the life, politics and the destiny of the viack commmrity. It was organized by Bobby Seale, BPP chairman, ecd Huey P. Newton, BPP Minister of Defense. Newton was sentenced in 1968 to serve 2 to 15 years after being convicted of manslaughter in connection with the killing of zn Oakland police officer. The official newspaper, "The Black Panther," vhich furthir describes itself as the "Black Conmunity News Service," ciates that the BPP advocates the use of guns and pucrrilla tactics in its revolutionary program to en 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 killed. “the Black Panther" issue of September 7, 1968, ccntains an editcrial by BPP Minister of Education, George Mason Murray, which ends with the following: "Black nen. Black people, colored persons of America, revolt everywhere! Arm yourselves. The only culture worth keeping is a revolutionary culture. Change. Freedom everywhere. Dynamite! Black Power. Use the gun. Kill the pigs everywhere.” Included in the introduction to an article appearing in the October 5, 1968, edition of “The Black Panther” is the statenent ", . .we will not dissent from Anerican Government. We will overthrow it." Issues of "The Black Panther" regularly contain quotations fron the ®ritings of Chairnen Mao Tse-tungof the Peopie' 8 Republic of China and feature Mao's statenent that "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.’ The national headquarters of the BPP is located at 3106 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, California. Branches have been established at various locations throughout the United States. 3