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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...automatic rifle at the demonstrators. Said Bermanzohn's wife Sally: "I saw a man in the right front seat of the lead car. He had a pistol. We shouted, 'He's got a gun!' Then I heard the firing start." Said Truck Driver Jeff Rackley: "It was just like a war movie, with everybody shooting all over the place and people screaming. I saw two people go down, a man and a woman." Added Photographer Don Davis: "One guy laid across the back end of the car and blew the side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Shootout in Greensboro | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

Exactly four years after 15,000 demonstrators massed in New Haven to protest his trial for the murder of Alex Rackley, Seale--more recently a Democratic candidate for mayor of Oakland, Calif.--spoke to about 700 subdued but friendly students at Tufts...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Bobby Seale Blasts President, Says Revolution's Being Built | 5/3/1974 | See Source »

...Luther Rackley...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: The Second Annual Crimson Cube Sports Quiz | 1/24/1974 | See Source »

This was just the latest in a long series of cases in which the Government has been notably unsuccessful in prosecuting black and white extremists. The abortive conclusion of the Chicago Seven trial in 1970, the acquittal of Bobby Scale in the Rackley case in 1971, and the acquittal of 17 of the Camden 28 in the spring of 1973-all represented prolonged, expensive Government prosecutions gone awry. In many instances, the Government case was weak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Extremists Acquitted | 1/7/1974 | See Source »

Kimbro pleaded guilty two years ago to the murder of fellow party member Alex Rackley. Kimbro subsequently testified for the state and implicated Bobby Scale, chairman of the Black Panther Party, in the case...

Author: By Douglas E. Schoen, | Title: Kimbro Denied a Pardon at Hearing, Will Not Enter Ed School in Spring | 10/3/1972 | See Source »

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