Volume 14, Number 9 · May 7, 1970
The Panthers on Trial
By Murray Kempton
Twenty-one members of the Black Panther Party were indicted a year ago last April for having conspired to blow up five New York department stores, a police station, the New Haven Railroad's right of way, and the Bronx Botanical Gardens. One of them was Lee Berry, who is twenty-four and was under treatment for epilepsy at the Manhattan Veterans' Hospital on the day of his indictment. He telephoned the police department to say where he was and report himself available for inquiry. There followed a descent in force and Berry's summary removal to the Manhattan House of Detention, where he was held under $100,000 bail.
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