Paul Harvey's "The Rest of the Story" is a 3-4 minute award winning show
radio program heard on AM radio station 790 KABC @ 7:00pm M-F. Each story is
a collection of facts about an individual. At the end...he tells us about
whom he is talking. He ends the broadcast with...."And Now...You know the
rest of the story." The following is a recent show.
Back in 1969, a group of Black Panthers decided that a fellow black panther
named Alex Rackley needed to die. Rackley was suspected of disloyalty.
Rackley was first tied to a chair. Once safely immobilized, his friends
tortured him for hours by, among other things, pouring boiling water on him.
When they got tired of torturing Rackley, Black Panther member Warren Kimbo
took Rackley outside and put a bullet in his head. Rackley's body was later
found floating in a river about 25 miles north of New Haven, Conn. Perhaps at
this point you're curious as to what happened to these Black Panthers.
In 1977, that's only eight years later, only one of the killers was still in
jail. The shooter, Warren Kimbro, managed to get a scholarship to Harvard. He
later became an assistant dean at Eastern Connecticut State College.
Isn't that something? As a '60s radical you can pump a bullet into someone's
head, and a few years later, in the same state, you can become an assistant
college dean! Only in America!
Erica Huggins was the lady who served the Panthers by boiling the water for
Mr. Rackley's torture. Some years later Ms. Huggins was elected to a
California School Board.
How in the world do you think these killers got off so easy?
Maybe it was in some part due to the efforts of two people who came to the
defense of the Panthers. These two people actually went so far as to shut
down Yale University with demonstrations in defense of the accused Black
Panthers during their trial.
One of these people was none other than Bill Lan Lee. Mr. Lee, or Mr. Lan
Lee, as the case may be, isn't a college dean. He isn't a member of a
California School Board. He is now head of the US Justice Department's Civil
Rights Division.
O.K. So who was the other Panther defender? Is this other notable Panther
defender now a school board member? Is this other Panther apologist now an
assistant college dean? No, Neither! The other Panther defender was, like
Lee, a radical law student at Yale University at the time. She is now known
as The "smartest woman in the world." She is none other than the Democratic
candidate for the US Senate from the State of New York --our lovely First
Lady, the incredible Hillary Rodham Clinton.
And now, as Paul Harvey says, you know (the rest of the story).