Black Perspective Journalist Organization to Hold Press Conference (Telegram); LDF to Defend Bobby Seale (Telegram)
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February 13, 1970 - February 18, 1970
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Press Releases, Volume 6. Black Perspective Journalist Organization to Hold Press Conference (Telegram); LDF to Defend Bobby Seale (Telegram), 1970. 2d4c69f7-b992-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/056b5f8d-7107-4d1d-aae8-9cc33078320b/black-perspective-journalist-organization-to-hold-press-conference-telegram-ldf-to-defend-bobby-seale-telegram. Accessed August 13, 2025.
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Black Perspective, a membership organization of black journalists and photogrpphers in the N.Y. met opolitan area, will hold a press conference on Sunday, February 15, at 2:00 p.m. in the offices of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), 10 Columbus Circle, Suite 2030, New York City. The group will discuss the Justice Department's subpoena off Earl Cai@we{1l of THR NEW YORK TIMES S, government interference in the journalism profession, and their response to any similar attempts in the future.
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LDF TO DEFEND BOBBY SEALE
Jack Greenberg, Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and
Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) announced today that the Fund will represent
Black Panther leader Bobby G. Seale in the appeal of the four year contempt
sentence imposed on him by U.S. District Judge Julius Hoffman. "The Legal
Defense Fund is entering the case at the request of Black Panther attorney
Charles Garry, and will handle Seale's case in collaboration with Mr. Garry's
office." Some of the points that will be raised on behalf of Mr. Seale are
also applicable to the case of the lawyers and defendants who were recently
held in contempt by Judge Hoffman. The Fund is representing Mr. Seale for
the same reason that it joined with a score of national organizations and
leaders in a committee headed by Roy Wilkins and Arthur Goldberg to
investigate the treatment of Black Panthers at the hands of the police and
prosecutors. Mr. Greenberg stated that “it is important that the Panthers
and their leaders be accorded the fullest protection of the Constitution _
at a time when too many public officials are striving for shortcuts in i
law enforcement and the suppression of militant dissent. Because of the
fpartiwubar-stegard in which Panthers are held by many members of the black +
community, their treatment by the law teaches more than a volume of
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preaching on constttutional protection." The appeal is being directed by
Michael Meltsner, First Assistant Counsel of the Fund, who will be assisted
by staff counsel Conrad K. Harper, Elizabeth B. DuBois and Eric Schnapper.
In the case of Mr. Seale, the Fund will raise the following consti-
tutional arguments:
I. Seale's conviction violated his right to jury trial.
II. Seale's conviction violated his right to counsel.
III. Seale's conviction violated Due Process because his case was
tried by a judge who had shown dislike for appellant and his
co-defendants.
Iv. Seale's conviction violated Due Process because he was not
afforded a full hearing.
Other issues will be present as weil.
In the case of the lawyers, Mr. Greenberg stated, there is the
additional factor that "the staffering sentences, up to four years, may
ihhibit others when caléed upon to represent politically unpopular clients?
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