Word: epton
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...bitter Harlem riots of 1964, as in the Watts uprising last August, a handful of Negro demagogues helped to prolong and aggravate the violence. On the hot summer night when New York's black ghetto boiled over, a disgruntled Communist named William Epton incited a street-corner crowd: "We will not be fully free until we smash this state completely and totally." Later, Epton cried: "In that process, we're going to have to kill a lot of these cops, a lot of these judges, and we'll have to go up against their army...
Last week, under a 1901 New York law that had not been successfully invoked for 45 years, a State Supreme Court jury-including two Negro women-found Epton, 33, guilty of conspiring to riot and to overthrow the state. He faces a maximum penalty of twelve years in prison. The same grand jury that indicted Epton investigated the riot's causes. It gave immunity from prosecution on riot charges to 13 witnesses, eleven of them members of Epton's Progressive Labor Movement. The 13 were cited for contempt after refusing to testify. Five have been sentenced to four...
...Epton was no ordinary agitator. He joined the Communist Party in 1958, dropped out four years later because, in his words, it was "no longer a revolutionary party." With other frustrated militants he organized the Peking-oriented Progressive Labor Movement, became its Harlem chairman and ran for the city council in 1963 and the state senate this year on the party's ticket...
Friday, Maher posted a $10,000 bond to free William Epton, a professed Communist, charged with criminal anarchy...
...prospecting and extraction program. Another $25,000, and congratulations from President Kennedy, went to a trio of Army civilian engineers for developing a nuclear explosive that has yet to be tested as a weapon. Robert M. Schwartz got $15,000 from the Secretary of the Army, and Milton E. Epton and Mrs. Irving Mayer, representing her late husband, got $5,000 each for the construction of an atomic warhead light enough for the infantry's one-man Davy Crockett rocket...