Your front-page story, "Panthers' History Discussed" (Oct. 11) seemed a trial run for your April Fools' Day issue.
The crowd was not 100 but 300, as the ticket sales report at the Harvard Film Archive bears out.
There was no panelist named "Kathleen Kendlehurst." It seems that your reporter did not know of Kathleen Cleaver, the former communications secretary for the Black Panther Party, a Yale University graduate who teaches law at Emory University, a fellow at the Bunting Institute and the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research for the past two years, and currently a fellow at The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City.
Your reporter concluded by quoting a volunteer in the Youth Build Boston Program: "It was just so phat." It might have been more interesting if it was reported that Dusan Makavejev, the Belgrade filmmaker now teaching at Harvard (pictured on your front page) had received the The Black Panther newspaper in Yugoslavia in the late 1960s, and if the efforts to create civil societies in both countries was touched upon. --Gerald O'Grady, Cambridge
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