Biography
James Cato was a Black Army veteran and part-time community worker with the Winston-Salem Black Panther Party. A June 1971 report described two separate involuntary confinements in a mental institution after arrests: a completed month following a concealed-weapon charge, and, several months later, a completed 60 days after an accusation of attempted housebreaking. The report alleged that his Panther association influenced the first commitment and that he was subjected to drugs and electroshock during the second. It did not name the institution or give the admission and discharge dates.
James Cato was a Black Army veteran and part-time community worker with the Winston-Salem Black Panther Party. A June 1971 report described two separate involuntary confinements in a mental institution after arrests: a completed month following a concealed-weapon charge, and, several months later, a completed 60 days after an accusation of attempted housebreaking. The report alleged that his Panther association influenced the first commitment and that he was subjected to drugs and electroshock during the second. It did not name the institution or give the admission and discharge dates.
