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While popular support for the Panthers as a whole has waned-perhaps because there has been less and less to support-support for Seale, Huggins, and other New Haven Panthers arrested for the 1969 kidnapping-torture-murder of Alex Rackley also seems passe...
...doing, manages to alienate almost everyone who could conceivably read it. He begins by offering an apologia for the use of dirty words by undergraduates which will surely strike all but the most puritanical alumni as gratuitously vapid. He follows with an account of the Alex Rackley slaying which somehow manages to make everyone look guilty, and spends the rest of the book explaining the conduct of undergraduates...
Seale and Huggins are charged in the May 1969 death of New York City Panther Alex Rackley, who the prosecution claims was murdered because he was a suspected police informer...
Twelve other Panthers have also been charged in the case. One, Lonnie McLucas, was convicted last August 31 of conspiring to murder Rackley and was sentenced to 12 to 15 years in prison...
Seale and Huggins are to stand trial in two weeks on charges stemming from the murder of Alex Rackley in May, 1969. The charges carry a maximum sentence of death...