New Documents Suggest J. Edgar Hoover Was Involved in Fred Hampton's Murder
New Documents Suggest J. Edgar Hoover Was Involved in Fred Hamptonâs Murder The Black Panthers' Fred Hampton speaks at a rally in Chicago's Grant Park in September 1969. Chicago Tribune file photo / Tribune News Service via Getty Images By In March 1976, we sat in a cavernous Chicago courtroom while FBI agent Roy Martin Mitchell testified in the federal civil rights case that we and our partners at the Peopleâs Law Office had brought on behalf of the families of slain Illinois Black Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark and the seven survivors of the murderous pre-dawn Chica...
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