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The Assassination of Fred Hampton: COINTELPRO, the Black Panther Party & the 1969 Chicago Police Raid
On December 4, 1969, a pre-dawn police raid at 2337 West Monroe Street in Chicago left 21-year-old Black Panther leader Fred Hampton dead. Authorities called it a shootout. Evidence later suggested something far more deliberate.
In this episode of When Killers Get Caught, Brittany Ransom examines the assassination of Fred Hampton, chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party and a rising national leader targeted under the FBI’s COINTELPRO program. We break down the role of informant William O’Neal, the alleged drugging of Hampton, the 99 shots fired during the raid, and the…
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