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...David Hilliard, chief of staff of the Panthers, spoke at the mass meeting in favor of the strike. Hilliard was released from jail yesterday afternoon after a sixmonth contempt of court sentence was commuted to "time served" by New Haven Superior Court Judge Harold M. Mulvey. Bobby Seale, Panther Chairman and one of the defendants, had earlier told Mulvey that the Panthers favored "peace and decorum in the courtroom. We want a fair trial...
...spokesman for the April 15 Coalition said that Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy (D-Minn) and David Hilliard, secretary of the Black Panther Party might also speak...
...execute Bobby Seale. An execution would be consistent with the Panther's experience with fascism. No white can pit anything against this prediction but a naive residue of faith in the government. Seale's death in the electric chair would have a significance that is hardly imaginable. David Hilliard told a crowd in Storrs, Connecticut last week that it would spark an armed black revolution, and there is little reason to doubt...
...Hilliard was preceded by Jean Genet, who opened the program by saying, "We have the painful privilege of being free on the same territory where Bobby Seale is a prisoner...
Genet continued for several minutes before Hilliard rose to the microphone and said that "the auditorium pigs" had told him that several bomb threats had been phoned in. He asked the crowd whether they wanted to stay in the auditorium or move to another location...