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...Post's sin was to state on Dec. 9, 1969 that "a total of 28 [Black] Panther members have died in clashes with police since Jan. 1, 1968" without giving the source of its information or trying to verify the accuracy of the figure. What prompted the Post apology was an investigative report by Edward Jay Epstein, published last month in The New Yorker. In six months of research, Epstein found that only ten Panther deaths were due to police action, and in at least eight of those cases the police had been provoked in varying degrees before opening...
Tracking Truth. The original claim of 28 police-connected Panther deaths was made by Charles R. Garry, chief counsel for the Black Panther Party. Most newspapers that reported Garry's statement mentioned the lawyer in their original stories. But some-including the Post and the New York Times-carelessly dropped Garry's name in subsequent stories. With or without mention of the source, the constant use of the figure tended to fix it as factual in the public mind. When finally confronted by Epstein last fall, Garry readily modified the charge from 28 Panther deaths to 19. Later...
...part of a national Intercommunal Solidarity Day, a rally and march took place yesterday afternoon in Boston as support for the Black Panther defense in the trial of Bobby Seale...
...Boston branch of the Black Panther Defense Committee and Youth Against War and Facism sponsored the rally. Close to 200 people attended, about 90 per cent of whom were white...
...rally, which was held on the Boston Common, started at 4:15 p. m. Speeches were given by Paul Coumings, a draft resister and anti-war activist; Ruth Lettvin of the Cambridge office of the Panther Defense Committee; and Kim Holland of the New Bedford Panthers...