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Hello everyone im frank somerville. It was seven years ago that the sla gunned down oaklands first black School Superintendent dr. Marcus foster. In 2002, ktvus Rita Williams had this look back at the shooting and the group behind it. Sit, sit, sit. Good doggy. Reporter you would never know it by looking at this man today but his body is still riddled with bullets. 23 entrance and exit wound. That was pretty much from a zig. Reporter it was november 1973 and blackburn was leaving thed Administration Building here with his mentor and friend superintendent dr. Marcus foster. As they approached blackburns car the shooting began. In my memory i have a freeze memory of him pitching forward on to this fuselage of bullets. Reporter he died in the parking lot. Robert blackburns heart stopped twice in the operating ....