Dear Member;

A number of events have taken place in and around our community in the last couple of weeks that makes a meeting of our committee extremely important:

1. The frame-3 of the "Harlem Six" continues.

4. The police are continu ing their war against the people of

Heríem--with beatings, frame-ups, and murders.
5. Four young girls, between the ages of 14 and 16 were

subpoena od by the District Attorney.to adnoar bofore
a Sraná Jury. The purpose was to intimidate those young

girls into signin: false statoments.
6. A young (15 ycars old) negro youth was shot to death by

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Hart EXHIBIT No. 10
THE BLACK PEOPLE OF HARLEM have historically been
terrorized by the police dept. of New York. We have been
brutalized, maimed and murdered by these police. We, the
people of Harlem, in order to partly alleviate these conditions

DEMAND

SUPREIG COURT
NEW YORK COUNTY

PEOPLES exam 32_IOR IDENT.

IN EVIDENCE

STENOGRAPHER

L. The immediate arrest and prosecution of police Lt Gilligan for first degree Mt. J. MACHEN 2. That the City convene public grand juries to investigate police brutality against Negroes and Puerto Ricans in New York City.

3. That the grand jury hearings not be closed until every person who has made application to appear as witnesses has been heard.

4. That a transcript of the proceedings be made a matter of public record and that printed copies of the complete proceedings be made available to all citizens.

5. That indictments be drawn up as a result of testimony of the above mentioned witnesses lo specific instances of police brutality; that these indictments be brought against both city officials and police officials who are responsible for police terror against Negroes and Puerto Ricans in New York City.

6. Our constitutional rights to assemble and demonstrate peacefully without harassment,
brutality, murder, and general terror from the police department. It was the violation of our
rights to assemble peacefully, by the brutal action of the police, which precipitated the present
crisis in Harlem. At the moment the people of Harlem are held in captivity by thousands of
policemen for the sole reason that they sought to peacefully assemble and protest the conditions
of life in Harlem

7. Our constitutional right to defend ourselves by any means necessary.
8. That fair compensation should be made to all persons who suffered injuries and loss of
income as a result of police brutality; also compensation should be made to those people who
were arrested and detained by the police and who therefore suffered a loss of income.
9. The withdrawal of all police who are not regularly assigned to the precincts in Harlem.

10. That the City uphold the right of all citizens who live in slum dwellings to withhold their
rent until these dwellings are brought up to those standards met by the City Housing Code.

JOIN THE MASS DEMONSTRATION Up Lenox Ave. Saturday, July 25th

4 P.M., at 116th Street and Lenox Avenue

HARLEM DEFENSE COUNCIL

336 Lenox Ave.

FI 8-2254

HARLEM DEFENSE COUNCIL

330 Lenove. N.Y.C.

FI-8-2251

The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order. Proceed, Counsel. Mr. SMITH. Mr. Chairman, on June 8 and 9, 1965, Mr. Phillip Abbott Luce testified before this committee in executive session. Mr. Luce was a member of the Progressive Labor Party from approximately July 1964 until January 1965. On the same dates Miss Judith Warden also testified before the committee in executive session. She was a member of the Progressive Labor Party from June 1964 until January 1965. The CHAIRMAN. And, unlike the previous witnesses, they were ideological members, were they not, of the PLM2 Mr. SMITH. Yes, sir. The CHAIRMAN. As I recall, Mr. Luce took part in the unlawful travel to Cuba. Mr. SMITH. Yes, sir. The CHAIRMAN. And testified before this committee very arrogantly, did he not? Mr. SMITH. Yes, sir. The CHAIRMAN. I understand that he has had a change of heart and has been quite cooperative with this committee. Is that not true? Mr. SMITH. Yes, sir. The CHAIRMAN. His testimony to which you refer is along the lines of cooperative rather than antagonistic? Mr. SMITH. That is right. The CHAIRMAN. How do you wish to handle it? Mr. SMITH. On October 24, 1967, the committee voted to make public certain parts of their testimony which were pertinent to the present inquiry so that they could be made a part of this hearing record. § your permission, Mr. Chairman, I will now call Mr. McNamara, staff director of the committee, to the witness stand to read the responses these witnesses made to certain of the questions asked them during their appearance on June 8 and 9, 1965. Th CHAIRMAN. That will be followed. May I ask the general uestion: I take it, then, that probably the testimony to be read into the record will be fairly corroborative of Detective Hart, will it not, as to the Harlem riots? Mr. SMITH. Yes, sir. I suggest I read the questions and that Mr McNamara read the replies. He will start with an introductory statement.

STATEMENT OF FRANCIS. J. McNAMARA

Mr. McNAMARA. This is the testimony of Phillip Luce on June 8: