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...wounds. Charged with his murder was Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the then fledgling, largely unknown Black Panther Party. In the intervening years, Newton was convicted, spent 33 months in prison, had his conviction overturned on appeal, and had hung juries force two mistrials. With the last mistrial, Alameda County authorities dropped all charges against Newton. The radical chant "Free Huey!" has at last passed into history...
...believe deeply," he said, "in the capacity of this country to serve the decent instincts of her own people and of mankind." He was less successful in speaking at the Alameda County fairgrounds where, hampered by a cough, he shouted hoarsely into the microphone and uncharacteristically slashed the air with Kennedy-style gestures...
...once, Huey P. Newton, co-founder and stern ideologue of the Black Panther Party, was smiling. The ten women and two men of the jury were filing out of the Alameda County courtroom in Oakland, Calif. After six days of wrangling over the case, in which Newton was accused of killing a police officer, they were so firmly deadlocked that Judge Harold B. Hove declared a mistrial and dismissed them. "This shows that with at least one black person on the jury I can get a fair trial," Newton said. "A hung jury keeps me out of jail...
Three days later, on July 28, the hottest pitcher in baseball celebrated his 22nd birthday, then returned to the Oakland Alameda Stadium to win No. 20. As usual, the organist played Rhapsody in Blue, and as usual, Vida got off to a slow start by loading the bases in the first inning. He pitched his way out of that jam, found his groove, and went on to blank the Chicago White Sox 1-0. When he squeaked to No. 21 last week by defeating the Boston Red Sox 5-3 in extra innings, a near capacity crowd...
...looking out at the panorama of Oakland visible through the apartment's floor-to-ceiling windows. 'I feel like I'm a prisoner.' " Appropriately enough, Newton's 25th-floor "prison" has a very comfortable view of another security building he has lived in-the Alameda County Jail...