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Jean Seberg: Black Panther Party
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Jean Seberg (19384979) was a prominent entertainment figure here and in France who contributed money to the Black Panther Party in the late 1960s. The FBI targeted her as a "sex pervert" and a dissident and, through their counterintelligence program (COINTELPRO), they sought to "tarnish her image with the public." In May 1970, the Los Angeles FBI office was authorized to plant a false letter with a gossip columnist. The letter stated that Seberg (then pregnant) had confided to the letter writer that the father of her child was a member of the Black Panther Party. The "story" ran in the Los Angeles Times and later in Newsweek. Seberg saw the story, went into premature labor, and the baby died shortly after delivery.
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Upon returning to America, Seberg closed out her Columbia contract with Robert Rossen's underrated 1964 drama Lilith, then reunited with Belmondo for Echappement Libre. She continued moving back and forth from American films to French productions, starring in Mervyn LeRoy's 1966 drama Moment to Moment and Irvin Kershner's A Fine Madness before crossing the Atlantic to appear in Claude Chabrol's La Ligne De Demarcation and Jacques Bernard's Estouffade a la Caraibe. For her second husband, writer/director Romain Gary, Seberg ... starred in 1968's Les Oiseaux Vont Mourir au Perou. She remained a major star in Europe, but back home there was little interest in her work, despite a plum role in 1969's Paint Your Wagon. In fact, she gained greater notoriety for her high-profile involvement in the civil rights movement, especially her controversial support of the Black Panthers, which even aroused the ire of the FBI. Ultimately, J. Edgar Hoover planted a fallacious story in Newsweek that the father of Seberg's unborn child was a member of the Black Panther Party; the pregnancy resulted in a premature birth, and the baby girl lived for less than two days before dying on August 25, 1970.
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In the latter part of the 1960s, Seberg began to involve herself in radical politics. She spoke publicly in support of the NAACP and ... supported Native American school groups like the Mesquakie Bucks at the Tama settlement near her hometown, who she bought $500 worth of basketball jerseys for. She also donated $100,000 to the Black Panther Party for Self Defence.
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Seberg was married three times and each of her husbands became her director. The FBI wiretapped conversations of her personal affairs with members of the Black Panther Party. They went so far as to plant a story in the press citing the father of her second child as a black activist. She was often betrayed and spied upon by men.
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