Biography
Bartee Haile was a member of the John Brown Revolutionary Party allied with Carl Hampton’s People’s Party II in Houston. Haile was wounded when police opened fire on Dowling Street on July 26, 1970 and killed Hampton. Police arrested Haile and Johnny Coward at the hospital on July 28 and charged them with attempted murder and assault with intent to kill police. Haile’s July 1971 trial ended with the jury divided seven to five for acquittal, and the charge was later dismissed. The sources reviewed do not establish his exact release date.
Photo: Reading/Simpson / Washington Area Spark. Original-image crop; identified by the source (Roy Bartee Haile at right speaking with Paul Melnicoff at left, September 1973). Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/washington_area_spark/5576389731 . Non-free image used at low resolution under this site's educational/memorial fair-use rationale; not an open-license or permission claim.
A captioned Houston 12 group photograph identifies Bartee Haile in a separate prosecution arising from an October 1973 antiwar picket. All twelve faced aggravated-assault counts. The article does not establish that Haile was individually among the five with attempted-murder counts; this is distinct from his 1970 Houston prosecution. Source: The Black Panther, June 1, 1974, PDF page 6. https://www.lincoln.edu/_files/langston-hughes-memorial-library/Black%20Panthers%20Newspaper%20Publications/BP06011974.pdf#page=6
