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    Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, was shot and killed in Oakland, California on August 22, 1989. His body was found in a pool of blood on a street in the neighborhood where he had begun his organizing work with the Black Panthers in the 1960s. Police had no suspects or apparent motive for the killing of Newton, who was 47 years old. Throughout his life and work with the Black Panthers, Newton faced legal issues and spent time in prison, and had struggled with substance abuse in recent years, though police said there was no evidence his death was related to drugs.

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    Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, was shot and killed in Oakland, California on August 22, 1989. His body was found in a pool of blood on a street in the neighborhood where he had begun his organizing work with the Black Panthers in the 1960s. Police had no suspects or apparent motive for the killing of Newton, who was 47 years old. Throughout his life and work with the Black Panthers, Newton faced legal issues and spent time in prison, and had struggled with substance abuse in recent years, though police said there was no evidence his death was related to drugs.

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    Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, was shot and killed in Oakland, California on August 22, 1989. His body was found in a pool of blood on a street in the neighborhood where he had begun his organizing work with the Black Panthers in the 1960s. Police had no suspects or apparent motive for the killing of Newton, who was 47 years old. Throughout his life and work with the Black Panthers, Newton faced legal issues and spent time in prison, and had struggled with substance abuse in recent years, though police said there was no evidence his death was related to drugs.

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    Dr.

    Huey Percy Newton


    August 22, 1989
    ''Renaissance of the Black Liberation Movement.''
    Huey P. Newton, a co-founder of the Black Panther Party and a leader of a
    generation of blacks in the 1960's, was shot to death early August 22,1989 in the
    neighborhood where he began his organizing. His body was found lying in a pool of
    blood on a street in an Oakland neighborhood where residents say they fear they
    are losing the fight against drug dealing and poverty. Dr. Newton, who earned a
    Ph.D. in social philosophy from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1980,
    was shot several times, at least once in the head, said Officer Terry Foley of the
    Oakland Police Department. The shooting was reported to the police at 5:29 A.M.
    The 47-year-old Dr. Newton was taken to Highland Hospital, where he was
    pronounced dead less than an hour later. At a news conference this August 22, 1989
    in the afternoon, Lieut. Mike Sims said there were no suspects and no apparent
    motive. Dr. Newton, who founded the Black Panther Party with Bobby Seale, became
    one of the most charismatic symbols of black anger in the late 1960's. After his
    conviction in 1967 in the death of an Oakland police officer, radicals and many
    college students took up the rallying cry ''Free Huey.'' At the same time, Dr. Newton
    and the Black Panthers were accused of being controlled by the Communist Party
    and were investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In recent years Dr.
    Newton continued to face numerous legal charges, served time in jail and fought to
    rehabilitate himself from alcohol and drug abuse. Police investigators said August
    22,1989 that there was no evidence that his killing was related to drugs. Where His
    Work Began. Residents of the neighborhood where Dr. Newton was killed said he
    began his work with the Black Panthers in the same area, working with churches to
    serve free breakfasts to youngsters.
    One man, who spoke on the condition that he not be identified, said: ''He knew
    everybody down here. This area is part of his roots. This area is where he came up.''
    Fred DePalm, who was awakened by the shooting this August 22,1989 said: ''To us,
    Huey Newton was a hero. The Black Panthers were a thing to identify with along
    with Malcolm X and Martin Luther King.''
    Mr. DePalm's sister, Audrey, said she recognized news photographs of Dr. Newton as
    a man she had seen recently in the neighborhood, which is two blocks from the west
    Oakland subway station and is marked by abandoned buildings and rundown homes
    with broken windows.
    Charles Garry, who was Dr. Newton's lawyer for many years and who defended him
    in the case of the slain Oakland officer, hailed Dr. Newton as the founder of ''the
    renaissance of the black liberation movement.''

    Mr. Garry said he never saw a violent side to Newton. A Change in


    Personality ''I saw a very sweet side, a humane side, a dignified side, a
    man who was theoretically in favor of a better world.''
    But Mr. Garry said that Dr. Newton became paranoid and that his personality
    changed years ago when he became a target of the F.B.I., whose agents tried to
    infiltrate and disrupt the Black Panthers.
    ''They destroyed him over 10 years ago,'' Mr. Garry said. ''To me, Huey died 10
    years ago.''

    But law-enforcement officers said they saw a much more lawless side. Dr. Newton
    was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the death of the Oakland officer and
    served two years in prison before the case was overturned on appeal. The second
    and third trials in the case ended in hung juries.
    In 1987, he served nine months in San Quentin Prison on a handgun possession
    charge dating from the late 1970's. And in March he pleaded no contest to
    misappropriating $15,000 in public funds earmarked for a community school the
    party ran in the early 1980's. After being granted parole on the weapons conviction,
    he returned to prison twice on parole violatons.

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