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and these Chicago Communists all circle back to 0bama’s childhood mentor Frank Marshall Davis...

https://romanticpoet.wordpress.com/tag/obama-robert-m-weissbourd-dr-quentin-young/

In April of 1927 Davis began his journalism career as an editor and columnist with the Chicago Evening Bulletin. He married Thelma Boyd in Atlanta on July 12, 1931, and moved back to Chicago in 1934.

In 1945, Frank Marshall Davis taught one of the first jazz history courses in the United States at the Abraham Lincoln School in Chicago. He married Chicago socialite Helen Canfield on May 11, 1946 before moving to Hawaii.

The Abraham Lincoln School for Social Sciences was a Chicago institution of the 1930s and 1940s, run by the Communist Party USA, located at 180 West Washington Street.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln_School_for_Social_Science

https://prabook.com/web/bernice.weissbourd/598913

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2001-12-09-0112090421-story.html

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1989-02-21-8903070040-story.html

Bernard Weissbourd, SB’41, JD’48, a researcher, attorney, and developer, died November 2, in Evanston, IL. He was 78. Weissbourd studied chemistry as an undergraduate, then interrupted his law training at Chicago to enlist in the Army during World War II. He was soon recruited for the Manhattan Project, inventing equipment to detect elements. He then returned to the Law School; after ten years in a Chicago law practice, Weissbourd was asked to take over a development company for which he had served as counsel. Under his leadership, Metropolitan Structures became the nation’s largest commercial real-estate firm. He is survived by his wife, Bernice Targ Weissbourd, X’45; a daughter, Ruth Weissbourd Grant, AB’71, AM’75, PhD’84; two sons, including Robert M. Weissbourd, JD’79; and 11 grandchildren.

https://mhubchicago.com/directory/3269

Bob served on the Obama Transition HUD Agency Review Team and as chair of the Obama for America Campaign Urban and Metropolitan Policy Committee.

Black Panther Convicted of Trying to Kill 6 Officers Released From Prison
Nov. 26, 2014

HARLEM — A Black Panther who spent the last 30 years behind bars for his role in the deadly Brinks armored car robbery and for trying to kill six police officers during a Queens shootout was welcomed out of prison by family and friends at the National Black Theater Tuesday evening.

Sekou Odinga, 70, also known as Nathaniel Burns, a leading member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army during the late 1960s, was paroled Tuesday from Clinton Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison in upstate New York.

Police arrested Odinga for attempted murder in 1981 after a shootout in Queens with six officers, which investigators believe was related to the robbery of the armored Brinks car. The Oct. 20, 1981 heist at the Nanuet Mall left two police officers and a security guard dead.

Odinga was carrying a license plate that had been linked to the Brinks robbery and police officers found a bullet from the gun of one of the officers killed that day, according to media reports at the time.

Odinga was also accused of springing fellow BLA member Assata Shakur, who was convicted of killing a New Jersey state trooper, from a New Jersey prison. He was convicted of both crimes in 1984.

For friends who think of Odinga as a freedom fighter, Tuesday was a moment of celebration.

“It’s an emotional day for us,” said Yaseem Sutton, 64, a Black Panther who frequently visited Odinga in prison. “I think you can compare it to Nelson Mandela being released.” But for law enforcement officials, Odinga’s release was a bitter pill to swallow.

“Society says he has paid his dues, but this reminds me of letting al-Qaida members out of jail and they immediately join ISIS,” said Kenneth Maxwell, former FBI case agent on the Brinks robbery case.

Nathaniel Burns was a Black Panther, and also the late brother-in-law of Bernardine Dohrn was named W. Haywood Burns, a lawyer that defended the Black Panthers, coincidence?

Above photo: Haywood Burns (second from right) with client Angela Davis (center), and fellow NLG defense attorney Margaret Burham (far left) during 1972 trial.

W. Haywood Burns, 55, Dies; Law Dean and Rights Worker