http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/rackley_trial_tape_surfaces/
...the government, under a counterintelligence program known as COINTELPRO, wanted two people executed for the murder: national party leader Bobby Seale, who had been in town to speak at Yale the day before the murder, and local party leader Ericka Huggins. Neither had been in the swamp in Middlefield. The accusation: The pair ordered the killing.More than a year of protests against the trial ensued, the largest one featuring 15,000 radicals from around the country rallying on the New Haven Green on May Day 1970. It shut down local commerce and drew the National Guard to town. No one died in New Haven that day, thanks to a then-unknown conspiracy among cops, Panthers, community members, and Yale officials to avoid bloodshed; three days later, National Guardsmen shot dead three unarmed antiwar protesters at Kent State University in Ohio.
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