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...music waned. This began to happen in the spring of 1967 at the Monterey Pop Festival, at a time when it seemed the movement would ensnare the whole country in its spirit. "It's hard to describe the feeling we had," recalls John Sinclair, chairman of the radical White Panther Party. "Everybody was taking all that acid and dancing and screaming in the music and uniting on every level with everybody else around him . . . We had a whole new vision of the world, and we knew that everything would be all right once the masses got the message we were...
Newton was also enraged by the apparent defection of his personal secretary, Connie Matthews, who married Tabor two months ago. Missing with her were some of Newton's private papers-documents that Newton considered important to the defense of Panther Chairman Bobby Seale in his murder trial in New Haven...
...Yorkers, as well as some rank and file elements elsewhere, have also kept the pugnacity that originally guided Panther tactics. The Oakland Panthers have recently become more restrained in their activities. The increasing preoccupation with "pan-revolutionism" and ideological rhetoric helped weaken the Panthers' efforts to attract the less sophisticated. The fact that so many Panther leaders are in jail or exile also damaged discipline...
Moynihan, who said he had never met a Panther in person, described members of the party as "displaying standard Southern behavior: making race extraordinarily important...
Jones also stressed that yesterday's incident has to be seen in the context of Panther harassment in other cities and in light of past Boston Police provocation. "As recently as last Monday a brother was arrested in front of the office. They're trying to get to us like they got to Fred Hampton in Chicago," he said...