Bobby Seale at SUNY-B

[H2O Man]

Bobby Seale, the co-founder of the Black Panther Party, and member of the Chicago 8 (until his case was separated), will be speaking at Binghamton University this Saturday. For more information, see:

http://pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060221/NEWS01/602210314/1001

Perhaps I will see a few DUers there.

1. My father took all of us kids to Fred Hampton's apartment

in Chicago after he was gunned down by Chicago Police. We saw the tons of holes in the wall where they fired at him. I couldn't grasp the meaning at the time, but I do remember it.


"""Around 4:30am on December 4, 1969 the heavily armed Chicago Police attacked the Panthers' apartment. They entered the apartment by kicking the front door down and then shooting Mark Clark pointblank in the chest. Clark was sleeping in the living room with a shotgun in his hand. His reflexes responded by firing one shot at the police before he died.

That bullet was then discovered to be the only shot fired at the police by the Panthers. Their automatic gunfire entered through the walls of Fred and his pregnant girlfriend's room. Fred was shot in the shoulder. Then two officers entered the bedroom and shot Fred at pointblank in his head to make sure that he was dead, and no longer a so-called menace to society. """

http://www.thetalkingdrum.com/fred.html