Biography
Evelyn De Patten was jailed during the April 13, 1969 Des Moines confrontation following a Black Panther breakfast-program rally, according to the firsthand congressional testimony of her son Clive Lisbon De Patten. Police Sergeant Robert Gladson separately identified her by name and said she was arrested for disorderly assembly after objecting during her son’s arrest. Their accounts of the confrontation differ. No exact discharge, duration, conviction or imposed term for Evelyn is established in these passages.
Evelyn De Patten was jailed during the April 13, 1969 Des Moines confrontation following a Black Panther breakfast-program rally, according to the firsthand congressional testimony of her son Clive Lisbon De Patten. Police Sergeant Robert Gladson separately identified her by name and said she was arrested for disorderly assembly after objecting during her son’s arrest. Their accounts of the confrontation differ. No exact discharge, duration, conviction or imposed term for Evelyn is established in these passages. Actual jailing personally reported by her son; no term, final disposition, release date or complete duration established.
House Internal Security Committee hearings, Part4 (1970), PDFpp81,101,142 / printed4792,4812,4854.
