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Article: Eldridge Cleaver, who founded the Black Panthers but spanned the political spectrum, dies at 62.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- May 1, 1998
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Eldridge Cleaver, the firebrand Black Panther leader, radical polemicist, confessed rapist, international fugitive and, finally, born-again Christian and penniless drug addict, died Friday at 62, bequeathing a legacy as confused and contentious as his famous life.
The father of three died in a hospital in Pomona, Calif., not far from where he recently worked as a consultant to a university diversity task force, counseling non-violence and reconciliation, not the rending of society he preached in 1960s.
The hospital declined to give the cause of death, but his neighbor, Peter Apanel, 47, who lives in a set of artists lofts in Pomona, said Cleaver ...