Author Jeffrey Haas - The Assassination of Fred Hampton, Chicago Black Panther
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Fred Hampton, leader of the Chicago Black Panthers, was killed while he lay sleeping during a police raid of his apartment in December, 1969. Mark Clark, another Panther, was also killed, and four other Panthers were shot. Jeffery Haas and his partners at the People's Law Office spent the next 13 years representing the families in a civil suit. In 2004, Haas began writing about the life and death of Fred Hampton, culminating in the book, 'The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther' which attempts to capture the mood and political tensions of that moment. Haas speaks to the time and issues at a book signing.
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