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Crime History: Black Panthers killed on UCLA campus

By Scott McCabe
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Crime History: Black Panthers killed on UCLA campus

Black Panthers killed on UCLA campus

On this day, Jan. 17, in 1969, Black Panther Party leader Alprentice “Bunchy” Carter and aide John Huggins Jr. were killed during a meeting on the campus of the University of California at Los Angeles.

The group was meeting in a small dining hall to discuss choosing a director for the planned African-American studies program at UCLA when an argument broke out.

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