Word: rackley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believed Sams was a national officer of the Party; he knew Sams had a gun and was capable of dealing brutally with those who disagreed with him. Until the moment Rackley was shot, or shortly before that moment, I am sure Lonnie McLucas continued to believe, and to want to believe, that Rackley would be released. I would guess that Warren Kimbro acted under the same suppositions...
Landon Williams and Rory Hithe are in Colorado fighting extradition. According to Sams' version of the story. they also ordered him to arrange Rackley's murder. Until the issue of extradition is resolved we will not learn their version of the truth...
...jail in Connecticut. There seems to be no evidence against Rose Smith and Peggy Hudgins (who suffers severely from arthritis and who still has not been allowed to see a doctor of her own choice) except their occasional presence in the Kimbro apartment and their knowledge that Rackley had been maltreated. These facts obviously do not necessarily mean complicity in a plot to murder Rackley. Ericka Hudgins' voice is on the tape recording Sams ordered made of the torture session; this does not seem to be proof of complicity, either...
...official statement of the Panther Party concerning Alex Rackley's murder, released at a press conference held by Huey P. Newton in New Haven, says that the members of the New haven chapter who allowed this incident to occur were young and immature, and that the Party must stand criticized for allowing a man like George Sams to ever become a member. I agree...
...Panther Party must be strongly criticized for its failures that allowed the murder of Alex Rackley to occur. The State of Connecticut must be strongly criticized for its administration of legal matters following the murder, for organizing trials and testimony not in an attempt to serve justice but to damage the Panther Party as severely as possible. And the government of the United States must be opposed for creating and maintaining a situation in which resistance such as the Panthers practice is one of the only ways the Panthers could survive with some degree of control over their own lives...