Today in history: December 4, 1969 - Black Panther Party leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark assassinated in Chicago, Illinois.
“The government’s neutralization campaign culminated in the brutal raid on Hampton’s apartment on Dec. 4, 1969 in which he was killed in his sleep, with his pregnant wife in bed next to him. The Chicago Police Department had been given the layout of the apartment by an FBI informant who had infiltrated the Panthers. Hampton was also drugged that night with the powerful barbiturate secobarbitol by the FBI informant so that he wouldn’t wake up during the police assault.”
Via Freedom Road Socialist Organization (Fight Back!)
DDECEMBER 4, 1969 - BLACK PANTHERS PARTY FRED HAMPTON AND MARK CLARK ASSASSINATED IN CHICAGO “The government’s...