i didn t feel that way. i never learned to use a gun. i never had a gun. we were not intending to be at war with anyone. and i think that. sorry to interrupt, but did you feel that way, even after your own husband, john, was murdered? now, he was murdered by quite a strange national. us black nationalist movement, at least that s what was claimed. orchestrated by the fbi. very much so. do you know that for sure? yes. cos that was never proven in a court. well. shall i tell you about the operative who came and met with me to tell me. whether it was proved or not, he was in the field office in westwood, california, which is where ucla is, on the day thatjohn hugginer and alprentice bunchy carter
and bunchy as well, alprentice carter. so, i couldn t understand why the government wanted to kill a 23 year old and a 26 year old. i was trying to figure out what is the point here and all i could come to is that there need to be examples to shut us down. they thought, to kill the head and the body will die. now, your enemies, and of course,j edgar hoover was enemy number one, in the sense that he saw you as a fundamental threat to the security of the united states, they accused the black panthers of all sorts of criminality. mm hm. ..and wrongdoing. but interestingly, there are historians, black historians, who ve also looked at the black panthers, and i don t know whether you have read his book, but hugh pearson, a respected african american author and journalist, he wrote a book on the black panthers, in which he said this, the truth is, he says, huey newton organised hit
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