From October 20, 1973 to April 20, 1974, San Francisco was rocked by a series of random, brutal attacks against whites. The assailant was at first thought to be a lone black gunman.
The toll finally reached 16 murders, five woundings, one rape, and the attempted kidnapping of three children.
The rampage, however, was not limited to San Francisco. Throughout California–from Bakersfield to San Diego–at least 93 other whites were murdered, according to later police investigations.
To end the San Francisco slaughter, teams of police decoys roamed the streets, posing as hitchhikers, a favorite target of the supposed lone gunman.
To prevent ham radio operators from honing in on their operation, the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD)used a special high-frequency “zebra” radio band.
When the use of this became known, the slaughters were dubbed “the Zebra case” by the media. Most people assumed the term referred to black-on-white crime.
But the killer failed to blunder into any of these ambushes.
On April 20, 1974, then-Mayor Joseph Alioto–desperate to end the slaughter–authorized a massive, city-wide dragnet.
Over 600 young black males were stopped and questioned by police who were armed with only a vague description of the killer, as given by surviving victims. Some blacks were stopped so many times they were given special ID cards to prevent future stops.
Civil libertarians and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) protested vigorously. The NAACP filed a complaint with U.S. District Judge Alfonso J. Zirpoli in San Francisco.
Just six days after the dragnets began, Zirpoli declared the stops illegal.
In San Francisco, the tourist trade fell off. Many whites stopped going outside after dark. Some whites began talking about forming vigilante committees and spreading similar terror among blacks.
Then, on April 22, 1974, a break finally came in the case.
Anthony Cornelius Harris, a tall, thin, handsome member of the Nation of Islam–otherwise known as the Black Muslims–came forward as a police witness.
At 28, he was a fifth-dan kung-fu expert who always dressed well and spoke softly. He also had firsthand knowledge of the “Zebra murders.”
Anthony Harris
Tne killings, said Harris, weren’t the work of a crazed loner. They were being carried out by a group of militant Black Muslims who made use of elaborate security precautions.
Harris’ intimate knowledge of the killers stemmed from their having been among his closest friends for over six months.
According to Harris, the killers had repeatedly tried to enlist him as an accomplice. But Harris–so he later claimed–could not bring himself to commit cold-blooded murder. This led his friends to suspect that Harris might be a police informer or agent.
Harris began fearing for his life. He also wanted the $30,000 reward being offered for the capture of the still-supposed lone gunman.
On May 1, 1974, police–acting on Harris’ information–arrested seven suspects.
Chief Assistant District Attorney W.H. Guibbini asked for high bail for three of the suspects after their indictment. Presiding Superior Court Judge Clayton V. Horn raised it to $300,000 each.
The accused killers remained in jail before and during their trial.
Four of these were tried and convicted. On March 29, 1976, they were sentenced to prison for life.
They were Larry Craig Green, 22; Manuel Moore, 29; Jessie Lee Cooks, 29; and J.C. Simon, 29. They appealed their convictions to the California Supreme Court–which affirmed them.
Jessie Cooks, Manuel Moore, J.C. Simon and Larry Craig Green
During his testimony as a prosecution witness, Harris was guarded constantly by San Francisco police.
When the SFPD’s resources began to be strained, Harris was placed on the Witness Security Program, operated by the U.S. Marshals Service for the Justice Department.
Also known as WITSEC, it offers protection, relocation and new identities to those who testify against organized crime groups.
Harris was eventually given a new name and relocated to a series of different states. He received a portion of the $30,000 reward he was seeking. Then he vanished altogether.
What follows is an inside account of the “Zebra” death cult, as depicted through the grand jury testimony of the star witness against the killers: Anthony C. Harris.
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Born in Long Beach, California, in 1946, Anthony Cornelius Harris got as far as the sixth grade. He clashed often with police and, on January 3, 1969, he was convicted for assaulting a policeman.
He was released from prison in May, 1970, when he won a reversal of his sentence at the California Supreme Court.
But he was once again arrested and convicted, in 1971, of second-degree burglary in Los Angeles. For this, he drew a sentence at San Quentin prison.
And he also met two of the future “Zebra” killers: Manuel Moore and Jessie Lee Cooks.
Cooks had been convicted of robbery; Moore had been sent to prison for burglary. Both wanted Harris, a fifth-dan kung-fu expert, to teach them the martial arts.
According to Harris, Cooks wanted to learn kung-fu so he could kill whites “because they had castrated and killed our ancestors and stomped our babies’ heads in.”
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Anthony Harris was never a devout member of the NOI. When Harris first joined, it was immediately following the alleged murder of his brother. He was never comfortable among what the writer of this article deems as “his comrades.” Harris alleged that the “Black Muslims” committed the murder, and that, somehow, he would get his revenge. He collaborated with the San Francisco Police Department, and with then Mayor, Joseph Alioto to set up brothers who were vulnerable to carrying out acts of violence against white people. Alioto figured that he could slow the progress of Mr. Muhammad’s fish program in the SF Bay Aream which employed members of SF’s Temple #26 because, as he put it, it was hurting SF’s economy. Harris was the trigger man in the Zebra murders. The media’s stance on the NOI was one of demonization. They would always portray us as a “Cult” like that of Jim Jones organization. However, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s mission was only to clean his people up, and lift them up from the status placed on us as second class citizens in a society that is totally against the advancement of black people unless they take on his (the white man’s) way of thinking (as a slave) In the way that Harris did.
I tried to do something about it. Problem is no one will talk about it. I spent a lot of time and money trying to uncover the truth of the matter , and what I found left me with no doubt in that the Zebra Murders we’re not the work of an organized group of extremists Muslims who were responsible for butchering and gunning down up to 70 white people. There were some a couple of criminals who belonged to Mosque # 26, and Jessie Lee Cooks was one of them. He was a Rapist who murdered a girl. But that had nothing to do with the 11 some odd shooting, murders committed under direction from certain law enforcement/intelligence agencies (who actually participated in the actual murders themselves. This to me was beyond any sin carried our before by the state or government. The idea that they would go as far as to condone , conduct and commit the brutal cold blooded murder of innocent men, women and children on the streets one of its major cities just could not be tolerated or go without public accusation. I was a 24 year old white upper middle class male at the time I read Howard Clark’s book and after learning this was the one and only “official”’account of the case, I became convinced I had to at least try to do something. I wish I could have done more. But neither black Muslims nor white Californians seem to be willing or have any interest in discussing the case. It gets no press. No specials. Aside from a few YouTube videos, it’s as if it has purposely been buried. There are some questions that can only be answered by the people who were there and involved with the matter. If anyone from Temple # 26, Black Self Help, or the NOI would go on record to go either confirm or dismiss certain facts, I honestly believe it wouldn’t be hard at all to have the case reopened and the wrongs of the past finally righted. No one has been willing to do so for almost 20
Years and I am really getting tired of no one else caring. I learned today that a third Zebra killer died in his prison cell a few days ago. There is only one left. Larry C Green. He’s been in prison almost as long as I’ve been alive. Does anyone know if Killer Zebra’s exist?