BlackPanthers story - is it true?

[bparker]

Can anyone confirm this? I know there is a link to snopes about this however, I just cant believe it is true..

Can any history buffs here confirm?

> Conveniently Forgotten Facts, 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, Connecticut .
>
> Perhaps at this point you're curious as to what happened to these
>Black Panthers? In 1977, only eight years later, only one of the
>Killers was still in jail. The shooter, Warren Kimbro, managed to get a

>scholarship to Harvard and became good friends with none other than Al
>Gore. He later became an assistant dean at an 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 woman 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
>United States Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, appointed by
>none other than Bill Clinton.
>
> 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 Senator from the
>state of New York ----our former First Lady, the incredible Hillary
>Rodham Clinton.
>
> And now, as Paul Harvey said; "You know the rest of the story". Pass

>this on! This deserves the widest possible press. & also remember it,
>when, she runs for President.
>
> This is proven right by SNOPES.COM

[DRTYFN]

It's true.

[bparker]

I just knew i was gonna get a F A K E

But seriously - this is true?

[KenP]

REAL!!!1one

[DRTYFN]

Originally Posted by bparker

I just knew i was gonna get a F A K E

But seriously - this is true?

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It's true.

[KenP]

FAKE!!!1two

The copied text you posted even mentions Snopes, so here it is:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/panthers.asp

She wasn't an attorney, she participated in a minor role.

However, minor is STILL involved, right?

REAL!!!6six