Fifty years ago this week, Black Panther Party leader Bobby Seale led an armed delegation of Oakland Panthers into the California state capitol in a bid to derail a proposed gun control bill. The event made international news, and photos of black-clad Panthers brandishing shotguns and other long guns were published around the world. George Skelton, then a young news reporter, was in the capitol when the Panthers entered on May 2, 1967. In this episode of the Capitol Weekly Podcast, Skelton shares his memories of that historic day.

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