PAUL HARVEY RECALLS BLACK PANTHER HISTORY WITH BILL & HILLARY CONNECTION

Back in 1969 a group of Black Panthers decided that a fellow black panther named...Alex Rackley needed to die. Rackley was suspected of disloyalty.

Rackley was first tied to a chair. Once safely immobilized, his friends tortured him for hours by, among other things, pouring boiling water on him. When they got tired of torturing Rackley, Black Panther member Warren Kimbo took Rackley outside and put a bullet in his head. Rackley's body was later found floating in a river about 25 miles north of New Haven, Conn.

Perhaps at this point you're curious as to what happened to these Black Panthers. In 1977, that's only eight years later, only one of the killers was still in jail. The shooter, Warren Kimbro, managed to get a scholarship to Harvard, and became good friends with none other than Al Gore. He later became an assistant dean at an Eastern Connecticut State College. Isn't that something?

As a '60s radical you can pump a bullet into someone's head, and a few years later, in the same state, you can become an assistant college dean!

Erica Huggins was the lady who served the Panthers by boiling the water for Mr. Rackley's torture. Some years later Ms. Huggins was elected to a California School Board.

Maybe it was in some part due to the efforts of two people who came to the defense of the Panthers. These two people actually went so far as to shut down Yale University with demonstrations in defense of the accused Black Panthers during their trial. One of these people was none other than Bill Lan Lee. Mr. Lee, or Mr. Lan Lee, as the case may be, isn't a college dean. He isn't a member of a California School Board. He is now head of the US Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, appointed by none other than Bill Clinton.

O.K., so who was the other Panther defender? Is this other notable Panther defender now a school board member? Is this other Panther apologist now an assistant college dean?

The other Panther defender was, like Lee, a radical law student at Yale University at the time. She is now known as The "smartest woman in the world." She is none other than the Democratic senator from the State of New York----our former First Lady, the incredible Hillary Rodham Clinton. And now, as Paul Harvey said; You know "the rest of the story".

This story is really beginning to bug me. There is not one fact in the article which is incorrect. But the left, and some here, are calling it all an "urban legend" because it is wrongly attributed to Paul Harvey...grrrrrr.

I was at several of the Yale Law school events preceding the May Day protest on the New Haven green. I darn well know what the sentiment of those at the Yale Law school (and Yale in general) was at the time. You could not find anyone who did not support the Panthers. If Hillary did not play a pivotal role in the shut down of the school and of New Haven, it was not for lack of effort on her part. It was because she was an ugly little hippie chick no one took that seriously.

Thanks. I was a senior in HS making a couple bucks extra taking pictures and stringing for the New Haven Register. Covered a speech at the Yale Law school by Doctor Benjamin Spock. William Sloan Coffin and a couple Panthers were there and spoke. All the big shots and wannabees attended and planned out future action. I would be surprised if Her Highness was not in the room(small crowd, probably 200). This was shortly before the rally on the green which drew over 7,000. What is omitted from this account is all this activity was not only in defense of the Panthers, it was anti-war activity. In fact, that, in my opinion, was the driving force behind it all. None of the suburban kids would have come into New Haven to rally in favor of the Panthers. They were more interested in rallying to end the draft (as well as getting high and finding a date, the protest was more a social event than a protest).

I read an article in the Reader's Digest some years ago, that the VERY active activists of the 1960s have put themselves in positions that would lead to positions of power and pursuasion, i.e., churches, journalism, politics, education in the lower and higher levels of learning. These are the "fish" who bit the bait of Lenin and Stalin of the 1930s. In the 1930s and 1940s the communist/socialist party of the US would not allow any foreign born citizen to be a card carrying communist, because the leaders of the USSR did not want the American public to know that the Communist Party of the US was receiving orders and direction directly from Mother Russia. The schools of journalism were the first to be "invaded" by professors educated in the communist way, but who had graduated from American universities and colleges, so we have now many journalists who spout the communist/socialist jargon. CNN is a very good example, and another, Dan Blather, who says, paraphrase, "No journalist should be a Patriot". Good, then he should go to a country that will allow him to be a journalist for that country, telling the "real poop", even when it gives that country a black eye. Peter Jennings, a canadian, who blames America for the war in the Pacific. Tom Browkrow who rides his father's WWII military coattails on the road to patriatism, but spouts the communist line. i.e., defending the traitor/rapist-in-chief by not telling what this scumbug had done to Juanita Broderick.

Ted Turner who loves the UN so much he has given millions of dollars, in increments, for their anti-American verbage, let him live in the Sudan, Africa, Indonesia, VietNam, China or one of the other "nations" who allow him to buy millions of acrage for his baronship.

Jane Fonda, who lived as a very privileged child and teenager (no fault of her own) then during the VietName conflict, claimed to own only two dresses,(to show her socialist/communist love of non-ownership)then went to VietNam, in front of our Prisoners of War, claimed they were criminals, and today,lives the life of a privileged American because of our laws protecting freedom of speech and laws governing War vs Conflict.

Korea was not a WAR it was a conflict, VietNam was not a war, but a conflict, so American born people who do not love this country and it's many freedoms, can be traitors against our cause and not pay for the treachory they have caused. Afoeganistan has not been declared a war. WHY? Where is the courage of our fathers who, as representatives and senators declared war in 1941? Have we raised up wimps who do not have this kind of stand up and be counted courage?

If we are to put American military personnel in a battle situation, where bombs drop, bullets fly, our people die, are maimed, then that situation should be called a WAR. During a war if treason is done by word and deed, as was done in VietNam, we can then discharge, to the fullest, an obligation to prevent any further harm to our cause and country.

I'm kinda of a numbnut when it comes to that old Eastern seaboard political action stuff. I went to a midwest university and politics was very far from my mind at the time. In any event, I hate war but there are times when we must stand and fight. I was married to a serviceman during Vietnam and as scary as the whole scenario was, I never would have protested the war and found it odd that people were lying in front of trains. All I knew was the domino theory and, with one or two exceptions, it seems to have been right on. I still think we fought Vietnam with our hands tied behind our backs and the people would have been better off if we had been allowed to win.

Your experiences are interesting. I sort of went through a liberal phase but came to believe in time that their thinking is unrealistic and utopian, and most of us know what became of ye olde utopian experiments in American history.

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