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Spic and Span. As ever, Wolfe prefers fangs to hatchets. "The Panther women are trucking on into the Bernsteins' Chinese yellow duplex, amid the sconces, silver bowls full of white and lavender anemones, and uniformed servants serving drinks and Roquefort cheese morsels rolled in crushed nuts." Then down come the incisors. "But it's all right. They're white servants, not Claude and Maud, but South Americans. Obviously, if you are giving a party for the Black Panthers . . . you can't have a Negro butler and maid." But then Felicia Bernstein (Felicia Montealegre that...
After his release, Sams drifted for a few years, then joined the Black Panther Party, serving for a while as bodyguard to Stokely Carmichael. The New York Times, March 22, 1970, contains this description of Sams...
...expelled once from the Party for stabbing a fellow Panther, but Stokely Carmichael used his influence to get him readmitted. Carmichael says that he learned that Sams was a police agent early in May 1969, but was unable to communicate this information from Africa to the Panther leadership...
Bail hearings for Scale began early in April. It seems likely that the tapes allegedly found in the Panther headquarters in the May 22 raid and the testimony of Sams and Kimbro will be the main items in the prosecution's case. It is not known exactly what Kimbro will testify. Voices on the tape-which were identified as being those of some of the defendants by Loretta Luckes-do not include Bob-by Scale...
...DEFENSE strategy is not yet clear, but the Panthers have stated repeatedly during the investigation that Alex Rackely was a member of the Party in good standing and that he was killed by police agents. Charles Garry told reporters, "We have every reason to believe and we intend to prove that Rackely was murdered by police agents." In an interview published in The Black Panther, the Party's official newspaper, published March 21, Seale said, "George Sams killed Alex Rackley... George Sams definitely actually in fact was the one who did kill Brother Alex Rackley, and Brother Alex Rackley...