Bobby Hutton
On this date in 1968, in west Oakland, Bobby Hutton, 17 years old, was shot dead by Oakland police.
In a 90 minute gun battle, the unarmed Hutton (one of the original Black Panthers) was shot ten times after his home was set on fire and he was forced to run into the streets and an imminent barrage of bullets.
Two days earlier Dr. Martin L. King Jr. was assassinated after re-thinking his own non-violence doctrine.
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The Associated Press
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