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By Joseph Reilly Nail heads and nol bullet holes were shown in a police picture of a West Side flat where two Black Panthers were fatally shot by police, the Cook County state's attorney's of- fice acknowledged Thursday.
Those 'bullet holes'aren't The picture was one of four released solely nails in a kitchen door frame were circled, that the marks circled in the photograph were to the Chicago Tribune by State's Atty. Ed- said that the marks in the frame were bullet broad-headed nails, not bullet holes. ward V. Hanrahan's office and which were holes fired by Panthers at state's attorney's A short time later, Hanrahan said at a published in the newspaper's late editions on police in a pre-dawn raid on Dec. 4. press conference that he had not said the Thursday. Sun-Times newsmen toured the apartment marks were bullet holes. A caption under the picture, in which two at 2337 W. Monroe on Thursday and found "I have made no evaluation of the pictures other than to say that they portrayed the scene accurately," Hanrahan said. "We have made no characterization of the pictures other than to release them and to say they portrayed the apartment." He was asked: "You are not responsible for the captions or Turn to Page 4
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