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Documents Tagged ‘Matt Clark’
Remembering Juliette
Archive Entry Date: 2010
Juliette Whittaker was “my angel,” wrote Richard's childhood friend Matt Clark
Matt Clark Recalls Richard’s Early Love for Performance
Archive Entry Date: 12/18/2005
A portrait of the young Richard, courtesy of his childhood friend Matt Clark
Panther Clark Expected Death, Sister Reveals
Archive Entry Date: 12/29/1969
An obituary for Mark Clark — a Peorian Black Panther killed alongside Fred Hampton in a pre-dawn raid by Chicago police in 1969