The Life and Legacy of Fred Hampton
Rev Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2019
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Chuka Ejeckam joins Breht to discuss and pay homage to the Black Panther Party leader and Marxist Revolutionary, Fred Hampton.
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| 0:00.0 | Deborah Johnson, eight months pregnant, |
| 0:02.4 | was asleep in the back bedroom next to Fred Hampton. |
| 0:06.5 | The first thing I remember after Fred and I had went to sleep |
| 0:11.7 | was being awakened by somebody shaking Fred |
| 0:15.4 | while we were laying in bed. |
| 0:16.9 | And chairman, chairman, wake up, the pigs are vamping, |
| 0:19.3 | the pigs are vamping. |
| 0:21.9 | This person that was in the room with me kept shouting out, |
| 0:25.7 | we have a pregnant sister in here, stop shooting. |
| 0:28.8 | Eventually the shooting stopped and they said we could come out. |
| 0:33.0 | I remember crossing over Fred and telling myself over and over, |
| 0:39.0 | be real careful, don't stumble, they'll try to shoot you. |
| 0:43.0 | Just be real calm, watch how you walk, keep your hands up, |
| 0:47.1 | don't reach for anything, don't even try to close your road. |
| 0:51.0 | When I was in the kitchen, I heard a voice, |
| 0:53.5 | an unfamiliar voice say, he's barely alive |
| 0:56.6 | or he'll barely make it. |
| 0:58.7 | Then the shooting started back again. |
| 1:01.1 | Then I heard the same unfamiliar voice say, he's good and dead now. |
| 1:06.4 | And I knew in my mind, they were, I assume they were talking |
| 1:10.2 | about Fred. |
| 1:11.9 | And I knew when I left out of there, I couldn't look towards the |
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