About Dr. Paul L. Williams,
PhD Dr. Paul L. Williams, PhD, is an American
author, journalist and consultant on radical Islam and
counterterrorism. He is also an adjunct professor of humanities.
He is the author of six books, including The Day of Islam: The
Annihilation of America and the Western World, in which he
expands on the American Hiroshima scenario he believes to be
imminent, in which simultaneous nuclear attacks on 7 to 10
American cities would create havoc in American society. Prior to
this, he served for seven years as a consultant to the FBI about
terrorist and mafia criminal organizations.
The Black Self-Help & Storage Company.
Cops examined the dismembered "Christmas turkey", victim.
Larry Green, one of three men convicted in the killing spree.
Dr. Paul L. Williams, PhD
Forgotten Proof of Islamic Evil on US Soil
November 9, 2009
Violent crimes committed
by Muslim extremists on US soil were not confined to
the events of September 11thm 2001, the Beltway
Sniper killings, and the murderous rampage of Major
Nidal Malik Hasan at Fort Hood.
One of the most horrific
incidents of Islamic rage has escaped the attention of the mainstream
media and the American people. The mayhem was conducted in the name of
Allah and resulted in the deaths of over 270 white Christians. And it
occurred in California.
The killings began on
October 19, 1973 when members of an elite group within the Nation of
Islam (NOI), known as the Death Angels, kidnapped Richard and Quinta
Hagueas while they were taking a stroll near their home on Telegraph
Hill in San Francisco.
The Black Muslims forced
the couple into a white van and began to sexually molest the 28 year-old
Quinta. When Richard protested, a member of the squad smashed his jaw
with a wrench. Following the molestation, the Muslims proceeded to
decapitate her with machetes. The cuts severed her cervical spine and
ripped through her carotid arteries, jugular veins, epiglottis, and hypo
pharynx. “That girl’s wounds screamed out hate,” SFPD detective Earl
Sanders later recalled. “Whoever cut her didn’t just cut through flesh,
they cut through bone. They cut deep.”[1]
The killers next turned their attention to Richard, smashing his skull
with the wrench and hacking away at his face and neck with their
machetes.[2]
The Killings Continue
Ten days later, Frances Rose, a 28 year-old physical therapist, was shot
in the face at point blank range by Jesse Lee Cooks, a member of the
Death Angels, who blocked her car and demanded a ride as she drove up to
the entrance of the University of California’s Extension Campus on
Laguna Street.[3]
Within the next two
months, seven additional attacks took place on the streets of San
Francisco, including a hit on Art Agnos, a member of California’s
Commission, and the murders of Ilario Bertuccio, an 81 year-old
maintenance man, Paul Dancik, a 26 year-old street junkie, Saleem Erakat,
a 53 year-old grocer, and Marietta DiGirolamo who worked as a janitor
for Mr. Erakat.[4]
On December 22nd, a member
of the Death Angels gunned down 19 year-old Neal Moynihan in front of
the Civic Center Hotel. Moynihan had just was purchased a late-minute
Christmas gift –a teddy bear for his kid sister. The assassin fled down
a nearby alley to Gough Street, where 50 year-old Mildred Hosler was
waiting at a bus stop. He shot her four times in the left breast and
then continued to jog down the street. The killer had eliminated two
white people within three minutes.[5]
A Christmas Turkey
On Christmas Eve, the
Death Angels captured a homeless white man and transported him to the
Black Self-Help Moving & Storage Company, a business owned by the Nation
of Islam, where they butchered him while he was still alive and trussed
up his remains like a Christmas turkey, which they then tossed into San
Francisco Bay. The body was so mutilated that the SFPD has never been
able to come up with the name of the corpse. He remains known as John
Doe #169.
The attacks, by now, had
become so commonplace that the SFPD reserved radio frequency “Z” for
communications related to the killing spree. For this reason, the crimes
became known as the “Zebra Murders.” It proved to be an ironically
prescient handle since the incidents involved random attacks by Black
militants on White victims.
Murder Without End
The killings stopped for
five weeks only to resume on January 28, 1974, with the murders of Tana
Smith, a 32-year old secretary; John Bambic, 84, an avid junk collector;
Jane Holly, 45, a social activist; and Vincent Wollin, who was
celebrating his 69th birthday by treating himself to a doughnut and a
cup of coffee.
The rampage continued with
the shooting of Roxanne McMillan, a 23 year-old housewife and mother of
a four-month old baby, who would spend the rest of her life in a
wheelchair, and Thomas Bates, a 21-year old student who was shot three
times while hitchhiking near Emeryville.
On April 1, a Death Angel
stalked and shot Thomas Rainwater, 19, and Linda Story, 21, as they
walked away from the Salvation Army School for Officers’ Training, where
they were first-year cadets. Rainwater, who was shot three times in the
back with a .32 caliber weapon, was dead at the scene. Story was shot
twice, while she sought to escape from the killer’s clutches. The
bullets narrowly missed her spine and she later recovered.[6]
On Easter Sunday, April
14th, the Black Muslims killed 19 year-old Ward Anderson and wounded 15
year-old Larry White on the corner of Fillmore and Hayes, where the
teenagers were waiting for a bus. Two days later, they executed Nelson
T. Shields, 23, heir to a prominent DuPont executive, in the Ingleside
district of the city.[7]
The Angels’ Wings
The break in the case came after the SFPD posted a $30,000 reward for
any information leading to the arrests of the killers. Anthony Harris, a
worker at Black Self-Help & Storage, took notice. He was struggling to
support a wife and baby, and $30,000 was a lot of dough to him. A few
hours after he dropped a dime into a pay phone, detectives took him into
custody for questioning. Harris spilled his guts, telling the cops about
the Death Angels and the point system within the Nation of Islam for
killing white people.[8]
Angels, according to the system, gained their “wings” upon killing four
white children and five white women, or, if they preferred, nine white
men. Upon attaining this quota, a photo of the Angel was taken with a
pair of black wings affixed to his back. The photo was mounted on a
board along with pictures of other successful candidates, and the board
was displayed on an easel at Black Self-Help Moving & Storage Company
location.[9]
In the pre-dawn hours of
May 1st, more than 100 police officers carried out simultaneous pre-dawn
raids. Forty officers were deployed to an apartment building at 844
Grove Street, where J.C. X. Simon lived in Apartment 2, and Larry Green
in Apartment 7. Twenty cops charged into Black Self-Help Moving &
Storage Company on Market Street, where two suspects lived. None of the
men arrested in the raid offered resistance.[10]
The 10th Lesson
San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto held a press conference to announce
that the men taken into custody were members of the Nation of Islam’s
Mosque No. 26, where they aspired to become “Death Angels.” John
Muhammad, the leader of Mosque No. 26, expressed indignation and
demanded that the Mayor apologize for his racist remarks.[11]
Muhammad, however, refused to explain Lesson No. 10 of the Nation of
Islam as penned by Elijah Poole (Elijah Muhammad):
“Lesson Number Ten: Why does Muhammad and any Muslim murder the devil
[the white man]? What is the duty of each Muslim in regard to four
devils? What reward does a Muslim receive by presenting four devils at
one time? Answers: Because he [the devil] is 100 percent wicked and will
not keep and obey the laws of Islam. His ways and actions are like a
snake of the grafted type. So Muhammad learned he could not reform the
devils, so they had to be murdered. All Muslims will murder the devil
because they know he is a snake and also if he be allowed to live, he
would sting someone else. Each Muslim is required to bring four devils,
and by bringing and presenting four at a time his reward is a button to
wear on the lapel of his coat. Also a free transportation to the Holy
City, Mecca, to see Brother Muhammad.”[12]
Outcry & Outcome
Muhammad was not the only African American to express outrage at the
Mayor’s remark. The Black Liberation Army sent a communiqué to FM rock
station KSAN which called for an armed uprising of all radical groups,
including the SLA, the Weather Underground and the Death Angels –against
the racist municipal government.[13]
The uprising never took
place and the proceedings took place without the spilling of blood. Of
the seven suspects taken into custody, three were later released. The
remaining four – Larry Green, J. C. X. Simon, Manuel Moore and Jesse Lee
Cooks, were found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in
prison.
The Black Self-Help &
Storage Company was managed by Tom Manney, a Nation of Islam member and
former St. Ignatius High School and City College football star. Manney
lent his black Cadillac to the murderers, who used it to hunt down their
victims, and an illegal .32 pistol that was used in several of the
killings. He was taken into custody only to be released for lack of
evidence.[14]
Unreported Slaughter
In October 1973, when the killing spree started, there were fifteen
divisions of the Death Angels within California.
The California Attorney General’s Office had compiled a list of 71
execution-style murders committed around the state, either with a
machete or a pistol, in which the killer – or killers – was always a
well-dressed and groomed youngish black man and the victim always white.
In addition to San Francisco, the murders were carried out in Oakland,
San Jose, Emeryville, Berkeley, Long Beach, Signal Hill, Santa Barbara,
Palo Alto, Pacifica, San Diego, Los Angeles, and in the counties of San
Mateo, Santa Clara, Los Angeles, Contra Costa, Ventura and Alameda. The
Nation of Islam genocide campaign had actually begun approximately three
years before the San Francisco killings.[15]
It took law enforcement officials several years to come to terms with
the real enormity of the crime. From 1970 to 1974, the Nation of Islam
was responsible for “just under 270” Black-on-White murders in
California alone.[16] How many killings
occurred throughout the country has yet to be calculated.
Nor has
the economic impact of the killings ever been assessed. However,
clippings from the San Francisco Chronicle document that the city
remained crippled by fear. Tourism fell to an all-time low; hotel prices
plummeted; stores and restaurants closed for lack of business; cultural
events failed to attract audiences. When night fell, the city by the bay
became a ghost-town.
The rampage made the
Nation of Islam the bloodiest domestic terrorist group in US history,
yet no law enforcement or government figure, in this heyday of the Civil
Rights movement, opted to take the Muslim organization to task, let
alone to expose Elijah Poole as the instigator of mass murder. At the
heart of the matter remained the fact that the Nation of Islam was a
“religion” with thousands of adherents and even more supporters. As a
“religion,” it was protected by a battery of constitutional rights. The
first line of the first article of the Bill of Rights reads:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”
Doing anything that
contravened these words would create a legal maelstrom that would result
in the loss of a juridical or governmental position and personal costs
beyond calculation. And so the real cause of the murders was neither
addressed nor uprooted.
Footnotes
[1]
Prentice Earl Sanders and Bennett Cohen, The
Zebra Murders: A season of Killing, Racial Madness, and Civil Rights
(New York: Arcade Publishing, 2006), p. 1.
[2] Ibid., p. 16.
[3] Stephanie Salter, “S. F.’s Own Time of Terror,” San Francisco Chronicle
October 13, 2002.
[4] Prentice Earl Sanders and Bennett Cohen, The
Zebra Murders, pp. 81-83.
[5] Ibid, p. 97.
[6] Ibid., p. 183.
[7] Nicholas Stix, “Lest We Forget: Remembering the Zebra Victims,”
Men’s News, October 20, 2005.
[8] Julia Sheers, “The Zebra Killers,” Courtroom Television Network,
2007.
[9] Ibid.
[10] Duffy Jennings, “7 Blacks Arrested in Zebra Killings,” San
Francisco Chronicle,” May 1, 1974.
[11] “Muslim’s Call for an Alioto Apology,” San
Francisco Chronicle, May 4, 1974.
[12] Prentice Earl Sanders and Bennett Cohen, The
Zebra Murders, p. 107.
