Volume 15, Number 11 · December 17, 1970
Journal du Voyeur
By Jason Epstein
Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
by Tom Wolfe
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 153 pp., $5.95
On April 2, 1969, twenty-one Black Panthers were indicted in New York for having plotted to bomb the Botanical Gardens, a police station, and several retail stores, including Alexander's and Abercrombie and Fitch. According to District Attorney Hogan, these bombings were to have occurred at the height of the Easter shopping season; in fact, he said, the bombs were to have gone off on the very day that the indictments were announced. Several Panthers went underground before the police could arrest them. One was held as a juvenile offender and thirteen others, of whom two were women, were imprisoned for want of bail that ranged from $25,000 in one case to $50,000 in two others, and $100,000 for each of the remaining ten.
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