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...Brewster does indeed have all the qualifications which the Corporation is looking for. Many people are now contrasting Brewster's handling of the May Day Panther demon-last Spring with Pusey's handling of the Harvard Strike in 1969. And they are the people who like what they...
During the Spring, his decision to throw open the doors of Yale to incoming demonstrators and his statement of "skepticism" that a Black Panther could get a fair trial in this country are credited with saving Yale from physical destruction...
Committee spokesmen later said the letters were an attempt to determine what role speakers' fees play in financing allegedly "subversive" groups. The groups under investigation include SDS, the Black Panther Party, and the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam...
...Black Panthers and their sympathizers shouted their charges of political-racial persecution. Defense attorneys wrote a legal brief arguing that the Connecticut jury-selection system was unconstitutional. Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr. expressed skepticism about the judicial system's ability to be fair. All this even before the New Haven trial of Lonnie McLucas began. Throughout the eleven-week proceeding, the question persisted: Could a predominantly white, middle-class jury objectively judge the actions of a revolutionary Black Panther...
...whose conviction will now be appealed, the judicial system worked as it should have. It treated him as an individual rather than a symbol of a radical movement. But the jury's verdict did not resolve some issues. Who was ultimately responsible for killing Alex Rackley? Was the Panther hierarchy culpable? State Prosecutor Arnold Markle has his own plans to find out. Seven more Panthers, including Party Chairman Bobby Scale, still await trial in the case...