The Savage City (67 page)

and Panther Twenty-one case, 285

shift in priorities of, 127

splits within, 216

“white backlash” against, 175

Whitmore's lack of knowledge about, 187

See also specific person or organization

Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB), 154–55, 159–61, 173, 175–76

Clark, Freddy, 124–25

Cleaver, Eldridge

in Algiers, 266–67, 274, 288–89, 292, 313

Algonquin Hotel press conference of, 246–47

arrests of, 224, 266

background of, 205

and Black Panthers, 205, 206, 208, 214, 215, 216, 226, 286, 288–89, 290, 292, 300, 315

and gun battle with Oakland police, 224

influence on Bin Wahad of, 205, 206, 208, 216, 225, 246, 358

and leadership of Black Panthers, 216, 288–89, 290, 292, 300, 315

New York visit of, 246

and Panther-police shootout in Oakland, 286

and police repression, 216–17

as presidential candidate, 246–47

in prison, 205

and
Ramparts
-police encounter, 205–6

revocation of parole of, 266

security detail for, 246, 247

Shabazz meeting with, 205

Soul on Ice
by, 216, 246

Cleaver, Kathleen, 224, 290

Cleveland, Ohio: Black Panthers in, 226, 241

Clinton Correctional Facility for Women (New Jersey), 381

COINTELPRO (counter-intelligence program), FBI, 215–16, 244–45, 270, 292–94, 297, 300, 301, 320, 358, 386

Coleman, David, 44, 127

Coleman, William, 103

Collegian Crowns gang, 60

Collier, Robert, 282

Colonial Park Housing Project (Harlem), 322, 336

Colson Lumber Company, 275, 276

Coltrane, John, 224

Comerford, James J., 55, 56, 57

Committee to Defend the Panther Twenty-one, 287, 294, 298

Committee to Defend Richard “Dhoruba” Moore, 360

communism, 121, 226, 243, 269, 278, 281

“community policing,” 302, 303–4

“Comstock” (Great Meadow Correctional Facility), 58, 65, 115–17, 142, 249–50

“conditions man,” 87, 340

Condon, Richard, 307

confession, Whitmore

and abolishment of death penalty in New York State, 145

and appeals by Whitmore, 192, 210

and Borrero case, 50, 53, 99, 100, 130, 169, 192, 193

and Career Girls Murders, 49–52, 56, 58, 59, 70, 80, 82, 146

D.A. Office's doubts about, 135–36

and Edmonds case, 50, 53, 136–38, 140

Hundley hearing about, 137–38

Koota investigation of circumstances surrounding, 136–37

Manhattan detectives doubts about, 80

NAACP demands for investigation of circumstances surrounding, 128

NYPD investigation of circumstances surrounding, 145–46

recanting of, 57, 59

Rockefeller investigation of circumstances surrounding, 265–66

statement/confession of, 49–52, 56, 58, 59, 80, 82

and TV film about Whitmore, 371

and Whitmore's claims of coercion, 58, 59, 70

confession(s)

extracting, 43–44

NAACP concerns about, 127

of Robles, 109–10, 112

Congress for Racial Equality (CORE), 72, 134, 145, 157–58, 173–74, 175, 213, 214, 243

Conservative Party, 160, 176

Corbin, Gerald, 129, 130

Cox, Donald, 288

Coxsackie prison (New York State), 65, 141

Coyle, Joseph, 10, 49

Crime Commission, New York State, 310

The Crisis
magazine, 111

Crown Heights (Brooklyn): shooting of policemen in, 229–30

Cruse, Harold, 219

Cuba, 279, 295, 382

Curry, Thomas: shooting of, 321–22, 323, 331, 332, 333, 334–35, 337, 360–63, 386

 

Daily Worker
newspaper, 74

Daley, Robert, 43, 361, 381

Dantzler, Blondell, 33, 188

Dantzler, Geraldine, 102, 188

Davis, Angela, 290

Davis, Ossie, 117

Davis, Sammy Jr., 15–16

de Jesus, Aida.
See
Whitmore, Aida Dean, Eric: murder of, 174–75

death penalty, 67, 132, 144–45, 377

Delafranco, Tony, 88–90, 257–58

Delaney, Marjorie “Marge,” 107, 108

Delaney, Nathan, 107, 108

Democratic Party, National Convention of (Chicago, 1968), 242

Department of Corrections, New York, 352

department stores bombing.
See
Panther Twenty-one case

Der, Bela K., 10–11

Detective Bureau, NYPD, 259

Detectives Endowment Association, 90

Dhoruba.
See
Bin Wahad, Dhoruba al-Mujahid (aka Richard Earl Moore) “Torch”

Di Prima, Joseph

awards for, 81

and Borrero trials, 99, 169

and Career Girls Murders trial, 150–52

and Edmonds case, 137, 138, 139, 150, 151

and investigations of circumstances surrounding Whitmore confession, 137, 265

and media, 54

perjury of, 151

retirement of, 152

and Rockefeller investigation, 265

and Whitmore interrogation and confession, 38–42, 45, 46, 48, 53, 137, 265

Dinkins, David, 393

Disciples (gang), 60, 63, 64

Dolly (Phillips friend), 88

Douglas, Emory, 227

Douglass, Frederick, 66, 219, 284, 359

Downes, Sean, 109–10

Dragons (Latino gang), 189

Droge, Edward, 344–45, 346, 347

drugs

Bin Wahad as dealer in, 204, 216

and Bin Wahad's narcotics addiction program, 390

and Black Panthers, 301

and blacks, 27

and Career Girls Murder, 107, 108

in East Village, 350

in Harlem, 27–28, 91, 122–24, 339

Hayden as dealer in, 249, 250

and Jefferys, 164–65

Mafia as supplier of, 27

and Newton, 292, 296, 298

official attitudes about, 27

and Phillips, 91, 123, 124–25, 304

and police corruption, 123–24, 280, 308, 343, 344, 345, 350

and police as “meat eaters,” 364

prevalence in New York City of, 27–28, 393

and race, 27

Du Bois, W.E.B., 14, 133, 219, 234

Duberman, Martin, 320

Dunleavy, Andrew, 49

Durk, David, 24, 280, 281, 308

 

East Harlem.
See
Harlem

East New York, 173, 174–75, 189

East Village (Manhattan), 204–5, 206, 223–24, 273–74, 349–50

East Village Other
newspaper, 204, 295

Easter Parade, New York City: “bombing” during, 278

Eastern Parkway (Brooklyn): ambush of policemen on the, 238, 239

Edmonds (Minnie) case

and Borrero case, 95, 130, 132, 136, 151, 171, 192

and Career Girls Murders, 135, 141

death penalty in, 132

decision not to retry Whitmore in, 171

decision to proceed with prosecution of, 81, 82

Hundley hearing in, 137–38

hung jury in, 141

jury in, 139–41, 145

and Koota, 171, 358

McKearney official statement about, 53

and media, 136

scenario in, 136

trial in, 135, 136–40, 150, 151

and Whitmore arraignment, 56

and Whitmore confession, 50, 53, 136–38, 140

Whitmore lawyers demands for dropping charges in, 110

Whitmore questioning about, 37–43, 45, 47

Whitmore Sr.'s collapse during, 137–38

Whitmore testimony in, 138–39

Egan, Eddie, 126

elections

New York City, 119–21, 280

1972 presidential, 279–80

2008 presidential, 394

Ellis, Eddie, 117–18, 183–84, 185–86, 196, 213–14, 225

Elmira prison (New York State), 65, 117

Elsmere Tenants Association, 244

Epton, William, 72

Everett, Charles, 127–28

Evers, Medgar, 30

“expropriations,” 328

 

Fag Squad, NYPD, 89–90

Fanon, Frantz, 224

Farrakhan, Louis, 232–33, 367

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

and Bin Wahad, 270, 294, 313, 333, 385–88

Bin Wahad civil lawsuit against, 388

and BLA, 338, 380, 381, 382

Black Agitator database of, 216, 332

and Black Panthers, 216, 244–45, 270, 279, 286, 288, 292–94, 297, 300, 301, 331–32, 358

button report for Borrero case from, 104, 130, 131–32

and Chesimard case, 381, 382

and Church Committee hearings, 386

civil rights movements investigation by, 215–16

COINTELPRO of, 215–16, 244–45, 270, 292–94, 297, 300, 301, 321, 358, 386

and Forman-Panthers incident, 215

and Joseph (Pauline) as witness, 361

and Malcolm X's assassination, 115

and Myers arrest, 380

and RAM, 197

SNCC infilitration by, 215

and threats against Powell, 124

See also
OPERATION NEWKILL

Fields, Frank, 334, 335

The 51st State
(PBS-TV), 355, 357, 371–72

Fillmore East (East Village), 223–24

Fink, Elizabeth, 386–87

First Amendment, 229

fixing cases, 309–10, 366

Flying Club, NYPD, 163–64

Folsom Prison, 205

Fonda, Jane, 291

Ford, Joudon, 238, 239, 242

Fordham Baldies gang, 60, 62, 64

Forman, James, 214–15

Forty-eighth Precinct (Bronx), 122, 330

Forty-fourth Precinct (Bronx), 268–69

Forty-second Precinct (Bronx), 60, 277–78

Foster, Gregory, 349–50, 351, 380

Fourteenth Amendment, 131

Fourteenth Precinct (Manhattan), 21

Franklin, Aretha, 180

“Free Huey” movement, 208–9, 214

Freedom Rides, 184, 214

French Connection drug bust, 123, 126

Fritello (officer), 343

Furey, John F., 229, 238

 

Gallashaw, Ernest, 174–75

gambling, 122–23, 124, 280, 307–8, 345

gangs, 60–62, 63, 73, 316.
See also specific gang

Garry, Charles, 281, 288

Garvey, Marcus, 269–70, 286

Gaye, Marvin, 351

generation issues: race relations as, 197

Genet, Jean, 288

Genovese, Catherine “Kitty,” 118–20

Genovese, Vito, 27

George Jackson Squad (BLA), 350

Germaise, Irwin, 309–11

Ghana, 388, 390

Ghetto Informant Program, 243

Gilligan, Thomas, 71

Ginza (Manhattan disco), 88

Giuliani, Rudolph, 393, 394

Glass, Melvin, 80–81, 150

Gold, Eugene, 358, 372, 375–76, 377

Goldstein, Aaron F., 167, 168, 169

Gonzales, Charles, 364, 365, 368, 382

“good cop, bad cop,” 38

Goodwin, Mary, 139–40

Graham, Bill, 223

Grant housing project (Bronx), 179

“grass eaters,” 363–64

Graziano, Rocky, 257

Great Meadow Correctional Facility.
See
“Comstock”

Green Haven Correctional Facility, 142–44, 179, 203, 352–53, 354, 370–71, 373–74, 385–86

Green, Patricia “Kisha,” 335, 360, 363

Gregory, Dick, 127, 128

Griffith, D. W., 134

Gross, Harry, 124, 193, 279, 283

Grosso, Sonny, 125–26, 166

Guevara, Che, 270

gun, in Curry-Binetti shooting, 361–62

“gypsy guns,” 75

 

Hampton, Fred, 290

Harlem

arrest of Black Panthers in, 273–74

BLA-police shootout in, 338

Black Panthers in, 186–87, 207–8, 234–38, 267–68, 269, 273–74, 286, 289, 290, 320

as center of black culture, 286

drugs in, 27–28, 122–24, 339

gambling in, 122–23

as geopolitical center of black nationalism, 291

King stabbing in, 3–4

and Knapp Commission, 307

Malcolm X speech in, 85

Mandella visit to, 388

and March on Washington, 5

numbers racket in, 20, 249, 339

and payback for Newton conviction, 247–48, 251

Phillips Jr. assignment in, 91–93, 122–23, 161, 201–2, 258–59

Phillips Sr. assignment in, 86

Phillips as undercover in, 339

Phillips views about, 346

police corruption in, 346

and police views about race, 3349

poverty in, 74