Word: rackley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alex Rackley, a Panther from New York, arrived at the office of the New Haven Panther Party (the apartment of Panther Warren Kimbro) late Saturday night or early Sunday morning May 16, 1969. On Sunday morning George Sams, who had also just arrived in New Haven and who represented himself as a Panther from the national headquarters of the Party, accused Alex Rackley of being an in former. Sams beat Rackley and ordered Warren Kimbro to beat him. Lonnie McLucas, who had never seen either Sams or Rackley before, entered the apartment while this was happening. Then, under Sams' orders...
...that time Sams ordered Warren Kimbro and Lonnie McLucas to borrow a different car and told them they were going to take Alex Rackley to a bus station and let him go. The car was borrowed. Alex Rackley, still bound at the hands and neck, was led to the car by Sams and Kimbro. Sams had a 45, Kimbro (according to McLucas) a rifle. Lonnie McLucas was driving. On the highway, Sams ordered McLucas to turn off into the woods, saying he had decided to release Rackley there. He ordered the car stopped at the end of a dirt road...
...above is a recital of events reduced to the minimum. What it omits is coherence, possible motives, explanations of why people acted as they did or what they believed, at any time during the three days of Rackley's detention in the apartment, was going to happen...
...longer sentence, regardless of his guilt or innocence. In the New Haven case, plea-bargaining had an extra dimension. Bobby Seale was present in New Haven for only one day, May 18, 1969, to make a speech at Yale. The only possible way he could be implicated in Alex Rackley's death is by the testimony of some other Panther directly involved who would say that Seale ordered Rackley's questioning, detention and murder...
Loretta Luckes is a young woman who had been a Panther for only a short time when Alex Rackley was murdered. Her unfamiliarity with the Panthers and the New Haven community probably influenced her action. Nevertheless, her testimony contained nothing particularly damaging to Lonnie McLucas, and no information about involvement on Bobby Seale's part. Warren Kimbro and George Sams had the most to lose by standing trial, since Sams had ordered the murder and Kimbro had fired the fatal shot...