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--SNIP-- The group was charged with conspiracy to cross state lines with intent to incite a riot. All but Seale were represented by attorneys William Kunstler and Leonard Weinglass. The trial, presided over by Judge Julius Hoffman, turned into a circus as the defendants and their attorneys used the court as a platform to attack Nixon, the war, racisim, and oppression. Their tactics were so disruptive that at one point, Judge Hoffman ordered Seale gagged and strapped to his chair. When the trial ended in February 1970, Hoffman found the defendants and their attorneys guilty of 175 counts of contempt...

Remembering The Zebra Killings By James Lubinskas FrontPageMagazine.com | August 30, 2001 MOST SERIAL KILLINGS in America take on a life of their own through movies, books and documentaries. The crimes of Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer and The Son Sam are still well remembered years after they committed. Yet there is one set of serial killings that been almost completely forgotten and is rarely mentioned popular culture. The Zebra Killings occurred in the Francisco bay area between 1972 1974 and left 71 people dead. They were dubbed the Zebra because of the radio channel used the police investigating the case...

From a brief in the Martinsburg Journal: SHEPHERDSTOWN - Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther political party, plans to visit Shepherd College [Tuesday] Feb. 3 in a program sponsored by the school's office of multicultural affairs and the program board. "A Night With Boby Seale" is scheduled for 6pm in Reynold's Hall, and the event is free and open to the public. Seale was born in Dallas in 1936 and developed an interest in architecture. After growing up and joining the Air Force, he later enrolled in Merrit College in Oakland, Calif., as an engineering major. While attending college,...

Over the past several years, there has been a growing romantic image of the Black Panther Party. Those guys who swaggered in their black leather jackets and berets, carried their copies of Mao's "Little Red Book" and talked more stuff than the radio are now seen as Robin Hoods of the black left, destroyed by FBI infiltration and the hot lead of local police departments. This image completely distorts what the Panthers really were and how they functioned during the wild years following the 1965 Watts riot. Purported revolutionaries seemed to rise from the sidewalks of Watts. Some were agents ...