Cops raid Panthers
Chicago gun fight kills 2, injures 4
CHICAGO (UPI)—Black Panthers and police fought a 15-minute gun battle Thursday when police raided a Panther stronghold to search for weapons. Two Black Panthers, including the party's Illinois chairman, were killed and four were wounded.
Two members of the state's attorney's police force were wounded—neither seriously in the gunfire on Chicago's West Side.
Three persons, one a girl said to be about eight months pregnant, were taken into custody by police at the scene—an apartment on West Monroe Street about one-half block from the Black Panther Headquarters.
The dead were Fred Hampton, 22, head of the party in Illinois, and Mark Clark, 22, Peoria, Ill., reputed downstate leader of the black militant organization.
State's Attorney Edward V. Hanrahan said police had seized 7 pistols and revolvers, 6 shotguns and one .303 caliber rifle. Hanrahan said the raid had also netted about 1,000 rounds of ammunition.
Fourteen policemen went to the apartment shortly before 5 a.m. after receiving reports from informers that sawed-off shotguns and other illegal weapons were cached there. They were armed with a search warrant signed by Criminal Court Judge Robert Collins.
Sgt. Dan Groth, who led the raid, said he had knocked on the door and received the response, "Who's there?" He said he had identified himself as a police officer.
When repeated knocks brought no further response, he said, he forced open the door with his shoulder and entered the darkened apartment.
Police said a woman lying in bed in the living room opened fire on them with a shotgun and they returned the fire. Then "eight or nine individuals began firing with carbines, shotguns and handguns," police said.
Groth said that several times he "asked all gunfire to stop and asked everyone to throw up his hands and lay down his ammunition." Each time, a voice from the back room shouted, "Shoot it out." he said.
Finally all the Black Panthers surrendered. Hampton's body was found in a rear bedroom, a 45 caliber pistol in his hand and a shotgun by his side, police said.
Hospital attendants said two of the wounded Black Panthers—Ronald Satchel, 19, Panther minister of medicine, and Blair Anderson, 18—were in serious condition. Satchel suffered four wounds, Anderson, two.
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Hanrahan said it was "only by the grace of God" that the policemen who had made the predawn strike were not all killed. He commended the policemen for "their bravery, their remarkable restraint and their discipline in the face of this Black Panther attack."
Bobby Rush, deputy minister of defense for the Illinois Black Panthers, called the deaths of Hampton and Clark "vicious murder." He charged that Hampton had been slain while he slept in bed.
In San Francisco, the Black Panther party's attorney, Charles Garry, cited the shootout deaths of the two Panthers in Chicago as part of a deliberate extermination policy. He said he would go before the United Nations and charge the United States with "genocide" of militant blacks.
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In the last previous shootout between Black Panthers and police in Chicago, two policemen and one Panther died and 10 policemen were injured. That gunfight occurred Nov. 13 in what police said was an ambush in an abandoned building on the South Side.
NEW YORK (UPI)—Dr. Richard Kunnes, a New York psychiatrist who interrupted a regular American Medical Association meeting to give the views of a coalition of liberal health organizations:
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"The American Medical Association is really the American Murder Association. You're the criminals, who rather than develop a preventative health program have prevented health programs. You're the criminals who through your monopolistic, exclusionary and racist practices, have created a vast shortage of manpower, resulting in a needless death of countless millions."
NEW YORK (UPI) — An American Cancer Society report said there is a greater relationship of death from strokes and coronary heart disease and those who sleep nine or 10 hours a night, as opposed to seven-hour sleepers.
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Speech students tinker with video equipment
Bond ruling appealed
With the help of a tape recorder and a video tape monitor a speech IB class record their voices and actions for later study as they work at a problem-solving situation with Tinker Toys.
TOPEKA (UPI)—An order was issued by the Kansas Supreme Court Thursday staying the execution of a Sedgwick County District Court judge's decision which held a section of the state juvenile code unconstitutional.
Judge Robert T. Stephan ruled unconstitutional a section of the
Chief Justice Robert T. Price signed the stay of execution after a notice of appeal was filed Thursday with the high court. The stay will be in effect pending a formal appeal or further order of the Supreme Court. The notice was filed by J. O. Ballinger, deputy Sedgwick County attorney.
code which prohibits bond for juveniles. He said both the U.S. Constitution and Kansas Constitution make the privilege of bail mandatory for all persons except those accused of capital crimes.
The ruling came in a hearing on a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in behalf of Karen L. Davis, 15, held since Nov. 20 at the Friendly Gables Detention Home. She had been declared a wayward child after running away from home.
Stephan in his decision Wednesday granted the writ, ordered the girl freed on $1,000 bond, and held the bond provision of the code invalid.
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