THE MURDER OF FRED HAMPTON (1971) began as a documentary of activist Fred Hampton and the Illinois Black Panther Party. During production, Hampton was assassinated, and the Film Group turned the focus into an investigative report of his death. | Turner Classic Movies: TCM

Yesterday marked the 47th anniversary of the death of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton. On December 4, 1969, Chicago police raided Hampton’s apartment and shot and killed him in his bed. He was just 21 years old. Black Panther leader Mark Clark was also killed in the raid. While authorities claimed the Panthers had opened fire on the police who were there to serve a search warrant for weapons, evidence later emerged that told a very different story: that the FBI, the Cook County State’s Attorne

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