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I'm Amy Goodman with Juan Gonzales.

As Black History Month begins today, we look back at the assassination of Black Panther

leader Fred Hampton in Chicago 51 years ago, and how new documents reveal more details

about the FBI's role in the murder of the 21-year-old revolutionary.

Fred Hampton was killed December 4, 1969, when Chicago police raided his apartment and

shot and killed him in his own bed.

Black Panther leader Mark Clark was also killed by police in that raid.

Authorities initially claim 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.

The FBI, the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, and Chicago police had conspired to

assassinate Fred Hampton.

Now several hundred pages of FBI memos and reports obtained by historian and writer Aaron

Leonard through a Freedom of Information Act request document that the director of the

FBI's Domestic Intelligence Division, William Sullivan, and the head of the extremist section

of the Domestic Intelligence Division, George Moore, both played key roles in planning

the raid and the cover-up that followed.

For more on what these documents say, we're joined by Flint Taylor and Jeff Haas, founding

members of the People's Law Office in Chicago, where the lead lawyers in the landmark Fred

Hampton and Mark Clark Civil Rights case, their new piece for Truth Outers headline, new documents

suggest J. Edgar Hoover was involved in Fred Hampton's murder.

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