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	FrontPage Magazine
		Betty Van Patter, who was already doing the books for the Learning Center, might be of help in handling the general accounts.
		Betty was found on January 13, 1975, 5 weeks after she had disappeared, when her water-logged body washed up on the western shore of San Francisco Bay.
		Betty's children commissioned Hal Lipset, a private eye with connections to the Left (and to the Panthers themselves, who had employed him during Huey's trials) to investigate the case.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=3477 (5617 words)

	Betty Van Patter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Betty Van Patter (c.1932 – December 13, 1974) was a bookkeeper for the Black Panther Party and an aide to Panther leader Elaine Brown in 1974, after being introduced to the Party by David Horowitz.
		Later that year, after a dispute with Brown allegedly over financial irregularities, she went missing on December 13, 1974 and some weeks later her severely beaten corpse was found on a San Francisco Bay beach.
		Though the case remains officially unsolved, former Panther supporter David Horowitz has maintained for years that Elaine Brown was directly responsible for the murder and that it occurred because Brown believed Van Patter was about to "blow the whistle" on the misappropriation of funds by certain party members.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Betty_Van_Patter (198 words)

	Murder and the Black Panthers
		For those who haven't read Horowitz's recent books, all of which mention Van Patter's death, here's the run down: thinking the Panthers were wonderful, Horowitz helped the BPP set up a children's school in Oakland and brought in his fellow radical Betty Van Patter to keep the books for the school.
		Van Patter asked too many questions and her body was later found in the San Francisco Bay.
		Unlike the Polish soldiers murdered by the Soviets at Katyn, Van Patter willingly joined her eventual murderers with eyes wide open and rebuffed intimations that they were anything but the revolutionaries they billed themselves as.
	www.leftwatch.com /archives/years/1999/000016.html (441 words)

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		Her grief hasn't lessened over the years, but it is especially acute now because of the way her mother is described in "A Taste of Power," a memoir of the Black Panther years published in January by Elaine Brown, leader of the party at the time.
		Van Patter, the bookkeeper for the Panthers, vanished in December 1974.
		Maintaining at least fifteen sets of perfect books." Van Patter wouldn't keep fifteen sets of books, and her inquiries were evidently a danger to the party.
	www.plethora.net /~linsee/columns/columns1993/19930325 (929 words)

	'Cold case' reaches 32nd anniversary \| Oakland Tribune \| Find Articles at BNET
		This week marks the 32nd anniversary of the discovery of Van Patter's body; her "cold case" remains unsolved.
		Van Patter was the Black Panthers' bookkeeper and believed she had discovered that the party doctored its books and had major tax problems, which she threatened to expose.
		And just before her disappearance, Van Patter had picked up a cash-flow chart from the late Weil that was supposed to help Van Patter straighten out the books at the Lamp Post, Baltar said.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20070117/ai_n17132143 (904 words)

	'Will You Die With Me?' - New York Times
		The murder of Betty Van Patter, the white bookkeeper for the Panthers who disappeared after she threatened to go public with illegalities she had uncovered in doing the books for the Panther bar, the Lamp Post, does not appear anywhere in Forbes's book.
		At the time Elaine Brown was running for an Oakland City Council seat, and Van Patter's going public could have sunk her campaign.
		Van Patter was last seen alive at the Lamp Post, where she'd been summoned.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE3DE1E31F932A35753C1A9609C8B63 (481 words)

	David Horowitz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He would later cite experiences with his involvement in the Panthers as a catalyst for reassessing his beliefs.
		In December of 1974, his close friend Betty Van Patter, a bookkeeper for the Panthers, was murdered.
		While the case officially went unsolved, Horowitz has maintained that the Panthers were responsible for her murder, committed in order to silence Patter from revealing the organization's financial corruption, and thereafter covered up the killing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Horowitz (1682 words)

	Who killed Betty Van Patter? - Salon.com
		Six months earlier, I had recruited Betty to keep the books of the Educational Opportunities Corp., an entity I had created to run a school for the children of the Black Panther Party.
		The governor was even a confidant of Elaine Brown, who had hired Betty and whom Huey Newton had appointed to stand in for him as the Panther leader while he was in "exile" in Cuba.
		At the time of Betty's death, Elaine was running for Oakland City Council and had just secured a $250,000 grant from the Nixon administration under a federal juvenile delinquency program.
	dir.salon.com /story/news/col/horo/1999/12/13/betty (1104 words)

	Salon News \| Who killed Betty Van Patter?
		Six months earlier, I had recruited Betty to keep the books of the Educational Opportunities Corp., an entity I had created to run a school for the children of the Black Panther Party.
		The governor was even a confidant of Elaine Brown, who had hired Betty and whom Huey Newton had appointed to stand in for him as the Panther leader while he was in "exile" in Cuba.
		At the time of Betty's death, Elaine was running for Oakland City Council and had just secured a $250,000 grant from the Nixon administration under a federal juvenile delinquency program.
	www.salon.com /news/col/horo/1999/12/13/betty/index.html (1124 words)

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		Brown's temperament made her well suited for Panther leadership: she was equally at ease moving between the world of the Panthers' white liberal supporters and the violent world of the street.
		Van Patter discovered and pointed out bookkeeping irregularities, she was kidnapped, raped, and bludgeoned to death.
		While the Panthers were being investigated for this murder, which according to Newton himself was ordered by Elaine Brown, she ran for the office of the Oakland City Council (garnering 44% of the vote).
	www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=1696 (692 words)

	The Anti-MOVE/Mumia Blog: January 2007
		It was in mid-1974 when Van Patter became bookkeeper for the party's Educational Opportunities Corporation, the Oakland Community School and the Lamp Post, an Oakland bar and restaurant that served as a Panther gathering place.
		The night of Dec. 13 Van Patter went to work for the party on the suggestion of David Horowitz, an editor at Ramparts, an up-and-coming journal of political thought where she had kept the books.
		Horowitz didn't know Van Patter, a woman who had radical beliefs about political and social change, but he knew she could clean up the Panthers' bookkeeping practices.
	antimove.blogspot.com /2007_01_01_archive.html (14523 words)

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		Horowitz hired Betty Van Patter, who had kept the books at Ramparts magazine, to do the same job for the center.
		As deeply as Horowitz hoped for her return, he writes, as the days passed "I came face to face with the realization that Betty was dead, and it was the Panthers who had killed her." A month later her body was found in San Francisco Bay.
		Consumed with guilt for putting Van Patter in harm's way, Horowitz reached deep into his radical past to examine all the assumptions he had learned in the cradle.
	www.plethora.net /~linsee/columns/columns1997/19970316 (926 words)

	Internet Archive: Details: Elaine Brown Speech on 04-28-07
		Elaine continues: "Immediately Betty began asking Norma, and every other Panther with whom she had contact, about the sources of our cash, or the exact nature of this or that expenditure.
		I knew that I had made a mistake in hiring her....Moreover, I had learned after hiring her that Betty's arrest record was a prison record — on charges related to drug trafficking.
		The accurate recollections that Betty, who was indeed scrupulous, had made normal bookkeeping inquiries that Elaine found suspicious and dangerous, provides a plausible motive to silence her.
	www.archive.org /details/ElaineBrownSpeechOn04-28-07 (8697 words)

	David Horowitz@Everything2.com
		He didn't warn Van Patter because he worried that she would denounce him to the Panthers because she didn't entirely trust Horowitz.
		The death of Betty Van Patter is Horowitz's Rosebud, his white whale.
		But as sorry as I feel for him (and for Van Patter), his anti-left crusade is nothing but an attempt to exorcise the guilt he feels about Van Patter's death.
	www.everything2.com /index.pl?node_id=1027434 (1188 words)

	Sadly, No! » Umm, Okay, Whatever
		Van Patter, who was white, eagerly accepted the position.
		Van Patter’s death plunged Horowitz into “a really clinical depression,” he says today.
		But he was in a bind: Van Patter, delighted to be employed by the Panthers, was completely enamored of Brown and wary of Horowitz, whom she did not trust.
	www.sadlyno.com /archives/9077.html (4259 words)

	Snipehunters.com \| Obliged to Remember, but Intent to Forget (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Betty Van Patter was a book keeper for the Black Panthers, and was pointed into the position by her friend David Horowitz.
		Van Patter was working on the books, she had become well aware of several illegal activities going on, at least on the financial end, and contacted Elaine Brown to bring them to her attention, thinking Mrs.
		To David Horowitz, there is no doubt in his mind that his friend Betty Van Patter was killed by, or directed to be killed by, Elaine Brown, perhaps in conjunction with Comrade Newton over in Cuba.
	www.snipehunters.com /index.php?page=essay&num=29 (1037 words)

	Frank's Case Book
		This all changed when Betty Van Patter was killed while working as a bookkeeper for a community organization run by the Panthers.
		According to Horowitz, Van Patter asked too many questions and was killed by the Panthers.
		Van Patter's death pulled on the earlier snag of his earlier doubts about the practical consequences of the absolute loyalty required of the Left.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /fmonaldo/articles/horowitz.htm (1413 words)

	Salon Column \| Who killed Betty Van Patter? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It was as a result of this responsibility that I recruited Betty Van Patter to keep its books.
		The fact that you let Betty deal with them directly was incredibly naive on your part, and shows you had no idea of what was going on with the Panthers at that time.
		The problem was that you were inexperienced and naive and Betty Van Patter got killed because of it.
	www.salon.com /news/col/horo/1999/12/13/betty/print.html (2191 words)

	Democratic Veteran :: Whore-O-Wits
		He didn't warn Van Patter because he worried that she would denounce him to the Panthers because she didn't entirely trust Horowitz.
		The death of Betty Van Patter is Horowitz's Rosebud, his white whale.
		But as sorry as I feel for him (and for Van Patter), his anti-left crusade is nothing but an attempt to exorcise the guilt he feels about Van Patter's death.
	www.usndemvet.com /blog/archives/002408.html (866 words)

	MakeThemAccountable.org (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 1974, Horowitz recommended a friend, Betty Van Patter, to the Panthers as a bookkeeper.
		After Van Patter told Horowitz she was upset about what she’d seen in the Panthers’ records, she disappeared.
		Van Patter’s death sent him into a spiral of guilt, depression, and self-examination that destroyed his marriage, most of his friendships, and eventually his entire worldview.
	www.makethemaccountable.org /index_050415.htm (4835 words)

	David Horowitz
		Twenty-five years ago, on this date exactly, my friend Betty Van Patter disappeared from a local tavern on University Avenue, called the Berkeley Square, and was never seen alive again.
		The fact that you let Betty deal with them directly was incredibly naïve on your part, and shows you had no idea of what was going on with the Panthers at that time.
		The problem was that you were inexperienced and naïve and Betty Van Patter got killed because of it.
	www.jewishworldreview.com /cols/horowitz121499.asp (2239 words)

	Hoosier Review (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In this atmosphere, Horowitz recommended Betty Van Patter to work as an accountant of the Party's finances.
		Only a few months later, Betty Van Patter would be found dead, floating in the San Francisco Bay.
		This incident, the Panthers killing one of their own employees, was what eventually spurred Horowitz to have second thoughts about his political stance.
	hreview.tripod.com /right1_25_99.html (958 words)

	Hoosier Review
		In this atmosphere, Horowitz recommended Betty Van Patter to work as an accountant of the Party's finances.
		Only a few months later, Betty Van Patter would be found dead, floating in the San Francisco Bay.
		This incident, the Panthers killing one of their own employees, was what eventually spurred Horowitz to have second thoughts about his political stance.
	members.tripod.com /hreview/right1_25_99.html (958 words)

	Horowitz Returns to Emory - Press Coverage - News - Students For Academic Freedom
		Horowitz said he stopped believing in the radical leftist cause when Betty Van Patter, the bookkeeper for Ramparts, showed up dead.
		He said he still believes Brown killed Van Patter because she "knew too much" about the Black Panthers' activities.
		Horowitz said he believes that his former idols such as Malcolm X were too full of hate and that working for the left exposed him to unnecessary danger.
	www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org /news/267/EmoryDHspeech041604.htm (699 words)

	How Unreliable Is David Brock? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Betty Van Patter was murdered in January 1975.
		During the ten-year political silence I observed between Betty’s murder and the article in the Post, I wrote only two political articles, and both these were written from a leftist point of view.
		They appeared in The Nation in 1979 and in Mother Jones in 1981 because as late as that — six years after Betty’s murder — I still wanted to believe that I was part of this “liberal community” I had allegedly turned on out of sheer derangement.
	www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2004/6/25/145205.shtml (4409 words)

	When murder hits close to home - Oroville Mercury Register
		Baltar's mother, Betty Louise Van Patter, a bookkeeper for the Black Panther Party, was murdered in 1974.
		Authorities questioned members of the Black Panther Party back then, and Van Patter's family firmly believes the party was responsible, but nothing has ever been proven.
		Writer and former leftist activist David Horowitz is the man who hooked Van Patter up with the Black Panthers.
	www.orovillemr.com /news/bayarea/ci_5016590?source=sb-digg (696 words)

	Flak Magazine: David Horowitz interview, 03-21-01
		In "Destructive Generation," he discusses Betty Van Patter, a friend of his whom he says he persuaded to take on bookkeeping work for the Black Panthers.
		Van Patter was murdered, Horowitz says, by Panther leaders, an event that he has often written about as a kind of turning point for him.
		His experiences with revolutionary groups seem to have convinced him that the contemporary left is, if not actively totalitarian, at least complicit in promoting totalitarian ideas.
	www.flakmag.com /features/horowitz.html (1233 words)

	Catherine Seipp on David Horowitz on National Review Online
		In 1974, Horowitz recommended a friend, Betty Van Patter, to the Panthers as a bookkeeper.
		After Van Patter told Horowitz she was upset about what she’d seen in the Panthers’ records, she disappeared.
		Van Patter’s death sent him into a spiral of guilt, depression, and self-examination that destroyed his marriage, most of his friendships, and eventually his entire worldview.
	www.nationalreview.com /seipp/seipp200504150751.asp (1163 words)

	David Horowitz
		This is what he left out: "If you felt it necessary to have some accounting of the funds you had raised, you should have called [Panther leader] Elaine [Brown], and told her Betty was working for you and if there were any questions about Betty, she was to tell you...
		Also, you should have told Betty to bring any irregularities to you and you should have discussed them with Elaine." This, of course, would have made it clear that David was responsible.
		As readers of my autobiography know (but Art apparently does not), Betty wasn't working for me at the time that she was killed, and I was no longer involved with the Panthers.
	www.jewishworldreview.com /cols/horowitz122899.asp (1757 words)

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