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APPENDIX BLACK PANTHIR PARTY (BEP) -.- According to its official newspaper, the Black Panther Party (BPP} was started during December, 1966, in Oakland, California, to organize black people so they.can take control of the life, politics, and the destiny of the - black community. It was organized by BOBBY GEORGE SEALE, BPP Chairman, and HUEY P. NEWTON, BPP Minister of Defense. NEWTON is presently serving a sentence of 2 to 15 years +. On a conviction of manslaughter in connection with the | : killing of _4n Oak} Land Police Officer. © ¢. Sehr st 76 sa aod ‘he official newspaper, “The Black Panther", which further describes itself as the "Black Community News Service", states that the BPP advocates the use of guns ani guerrilla tectics in its revolutionary program.to end oppression of the black people. Residents of the black “conmunity are urged to arm themselvés egainst- the. pol ice who are consistently referred to in the publication aS “pigs” who should be killed. 4 a ne eee “The ‘Black Penther" issue « of September oa 1965. Contains an editorial by BPP Minister of Education GEORGE - MASON MURRAY, which ends with the following: "Black men.. ‘Black people, colored persons of . america,- Yyevolt everywhere! Arm yourselves. . The only cul-.- ture worth keeping is a revolutionary culture, Change. . Freedom everywhere. Dynamite! Black Power. Use the Gur. Kill the pigs everywhere." , ae . . Included in the: ‘tntroduction to an “article agen? in in the October 5, 1968, edition of "The Black Panther" is the statement, "...we will not dissent from American Govermne.t. We will overthrow it." - Issues of “The Black Panther" regularly 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.” . oo, = 3220007 en _