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...black militant freedom poem." The verse was about a young black from Mississippi who at age ten had seen a black man lynched by the Klan, and had later had "bad experiences with the worst of the whites." He had gone north to Brooklyn where he joined the Panthers, and at the time of the poem was involved with 49 other Panthers in a rooftop shoot-out against the police. After all the other Panthers had been either shot or had surrendered, he remained for he "had a purpose in life... to die. Die fighting for black people's freedom...
...other memo-dated Oct. 12, 1970-directs all Philadelphia-area agents to undertake a detailed investigation of the Black Panther-organized Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention, which took place in Washington, D.C. the following month...
...authority is implicit in the President's power to wage war and protect the country; he is the first Attorney General to make such a claim. On that assumption, Mitchell did not seek court approval in authorizing wiretaps on conversations by one of three members of the White Panther Party who were charged with conspiracy in the bombing of a Central Intelligence Agency office in Ann Arbor, Mich...
...immediate impact of the decision, the first by an appellate court on the issue, was to uphold Judge Keith's ruling in the White Panther case and make it the law in the Sixth Circuit (Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio and Michigan). More important, if the decision is upheld by the Supreme Court, the Justice Department will have to get warrants in order to bug suspected domestic subversives. Since it apparently has not done so up until now, it would not be able to prosecute on the basis of any wiretap evidence it may now have...
...Palo Alto police - and one of the lawyers working with them is Anthony Amsterdam, a civil liberties lawyer who was one of the attorneys defending Earl Caldwell, a reporter for the New York Times, in his successful fight to keep notes on his interviews with members of the Black Panther Party out of the hands of a Federal Grand Jury...