Posted on 10/24/2010 12:51:00 PM PDT by Borges
Michael Tabor, one of 13 Black Panther Party members acquitted in 1971 of conspiring to bomb public buildings and murder police officers in New York City, died on Oct. 17 in Lusaka, Zambia. He was 63.
The cause was complications of several strokes, said Melvin McCray, a friend and an adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism who was producing a documentary about Mr. Tabor.
On May 13, 1971, Mr. Tabor and his co-defendants were found not guilty of all charges of planning to bomb department stores, police stations, train stations and the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx and to murder police officers. Mr. Tabor, a captain in the New York branch of the Panthers, was not in State Supreme Court in Manhattan when the verdict was read. He and another defendant, Richard Moore, had fled to Algeria four months into the eight-month trial — one of the longest in New York history.
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He only lasted to 63?
That’s African healthcare for you...
thanks to Obummer, it’ll be available at a clinic near you!
Good riddance.
What a crock. Now are we going to have to put up with the msm eulogizing BOMBERS from the 70’s?
Surprised that Obama did not give Tabor amnesty....after all the Black Panthers are now a protected Hate Group by Obama and Eric Holder
Somebody died in Algeria! Yikes! That is news!
In this different article on the same subject, it cites the supreme commander of the Black Panther Party as a Mr. “Huey P. Lewis”.
I guess it’s hip to be square.
Sounds like a good friend of Bill Ayers doesn’t he?
When I read the words New York Times, Black Panther and Dies, I immediately knew the Times would be positively eulogizing a fellow traveler.
I was thinking the same thing...life expectancy leaves a lot to be desired there.
They were all guilty in fact if not in the eyes of the court.
He was a bloviating, racist coward.
Now he’s a dead racist coward.
Too bad he won’t be buried somewhere near by - his grave would make a good spot to relieve one’s self.
Coward. Isn’t there a law against fleeing during a trial. Of that he must have NOT been found innocent.
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I’m sure the “Fraud” and Moochele will have to stop and visit on their upcoming VERY EXPENSIVE vacation. As this is part of who they are.
The 60's were a weird and wacky decade, but what did the Botanical Garden ever do to him?
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