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New Haymarket Book Rewrites the Narrative of Fred Hampton’s Murder

by Max Blaisdell and Hyde Park Herald

efore dawn on December 4, 1969, then-Cook County State’s Attorney Edward Hanrahan sent a squad of police officers into a Black Panther Party apartment on the West Side. Officers opened fire with rifles, a submachine gun, shotguns, and handguns, killing Illinois Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton and fellow party member Mark Clark and wounding […]