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Yale's involvement also stemmed from what many students on campus considered grossly unfair treatment of two of the Panther leaders, David Hilliard and Emory Douglas, both of whom were sentenced to six months in jail by Judge Harold Mulvey when a small scuffle broke out in the courtroom during pretrial hearings. (The judge later accepted the Panthers' apology and reduced the sentence to one week.) Some 400 Yale students met in Harkness Hall, discussed the trial and linked it to what they considered similar prejudiced action by Judge Julius Hoffman in the Chicago conspiracy trial. They voted...
...cans filled with explosives. The paper declared: "All self-defense groups must strike blows against the slavemaster until we have secured our survival as a people, and if this takes shooting every pig and blowing up every pigsty, then let's get on with it." Panther Leader David Hilliard warned: "If anything happens to Bobby Seale, there will not be any lights for days in this country. Not only will we burn buildings, we will take lives. We will kill judges." Panther leaders even talked of storming the Montville, Conn., prison, where Bobby Seale was being held for trial...
...militant rhetoric. Obviously it cannot be dismissed that way. The use of language carries responsibility, as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes pointed out in his famous remark about crying "Fire!" in a crowded theater. Rhetoric has a significance and catalytic effect of its own. In the tense U.S. of 1970, Hilliard's public cries of "Kill Nixon" could be a dangerous incitement to psychotic action on the part of others...
...Chicago conspiracy trial last winter. On top of that, New Haven officials have inadvertently borrowed potential trouble by setting the new Seale trial at the courthouse just across the New Haven green from Yale. Yale sympathizers were all the more upset two weeks ago when two Panthers, including David Hilliard, the highest-ranking Panther still out of jail, got into a scuffle at the courthouse during pretrial hearings and were summarily sentenced for contempt. Last week both were released-their six-month jail terms reduced to a week-and Hilliard duly addressed 4,500 Yale students at a rally...
...recognize that the U. S. A. is the most inveterate enemy of black people and the number one target for liberation," Hilliard added. "When Ted Kennedy speaks out as an authority on non-violence, I say he's a motherfuckin'liar. The only way to end this is to pick up guns...