>>> GOOD AFTERNOON, 20-YEAR-OLD
CHAIRMAN OF THE "BLACK PANTHER"
PARTY, FRED HAMPTON, WAS SHOT
AND KILLED IN A PREDAWN
SHOOT-OUT SOME HIS WEST SIDE
APARTMENT.
ANOTHER PARTY MEMBER,
22-YEAR-OLD MARK CLARK OF
PEORIA, ALSO DIED IN THE
SHOOT-OUT WHICH LEFT FOUR
PANTHERS AND TWO POLICE OFFICERS
WOUNDED.
THEY WERE FIRED ON WHEN THEY
TRIED TO ENTER THE APARTMENT ON
A SEARCH WARRANT FOR POSSESSION
OF ILLEGAL ELSE WITH.
THREE MORE PANTHER PARTY MEMBERS
ARE IN POLICE CUSTODY IN
CONNECTION WITH THE SHOOTING.
>> WHEN YOU KNOCKED ON THE DOOR,
WHAT HAPPENED?
.
>> WELL, I DIDN’T ACTUALLY
KNOCK.
I HEARD OUR OFFICERS AT THE
FRONT ANNOUNCE THEIR OFFICE AND
SHOTS FIRED.
SO I KICKED IN THE BACK DOOR.
AND AS SOON AS THE DOOR OPENED,
I COULD SEE SHOOTS FIRED ON THE
BACKSIDE.
.
>> WAS IT LIT.
>> THE KITCHEN AND WAS LIT.
THE BEDROOMS WERE DARK
>> DID YOU KNOW THEY WERE BLACK
PANTHERS?
>> NO, WE DIDN’T.
WE WERE INFORMED THERE WERE GUNS
AND CON TKRA BAND IN THE
BUILDING.
>> DID YOU HAVE INDICATION THAT
FRED HAMPTON MIGHT BE THERE.
>> NOT TEENAGE.
>> THE RIDE RAID WAS CONDUCTED
BY THE STATES ATTORNEYS OFFICE.
.
>> THAT WAS THE NEWS REPORT FROM
WMAQ DECEMBER 5th, 1969
FOLLOWING THE SHOOTING DEATH OF
FRED HAMPTON, CHAIR SHOOTING DEA
FRED HAMPTON OF THE BLACK
PANTHER PARTY.
HE WAS SHOT AND KILLED ON
DECEMBER 4th OF ’69.
HE WAS SHOT IN A RAID BY CHICAGO POLICE WHO WERE EXECUTING A
POLICE WHO WERE EXECUTING A
WARRANT FOR ILLEGAL LLEGED IT WA
BATTLE, BUT ONLY ONE SHOT WAS
FIRED BY THE BLACK PANTHERS.
THIS IS THE FOCUS OF THE NEW
FILM, "JUDAS AND THE BLACK
MESSIAH."
HERE’S A LOOK.
>> IT’S NOT A QUESTION OF
VIOLENCE OR NONVIOLENCE, IT’S A
QUESTION OF RESISTANCE TO
FASCISM OR EXISTENCE WITH FASH
FASHISM.FASH
FASCISM.
YOU CAN MURDER A FREEDOM
FIGHTER, BUT YOU CAN’T MURDER
FREEDOM!
>> I AM --
>> A REVOLUTIONARY!
>> I AM -- >> A REVOLUTIONARY!
>> A REVOLUTIONARY!
>> LET ME PEOPLE BE!
>> THAT’S DANIEL KALUUYA THERE.
JOINING US NOW IS ACTIVIST,
MOTHER AKUA, A FORMER BLACK
PANTHER WHO WAS FRED HAMPTON’S
FIANCEE AT THE TIME OF HIS
DEATH, AND THE PRODUCER OF THE
FILM, SHAKA KING.
APPRECIATE YOU BOTH BEING HERE.
EVERYBODY IS TALKING ABOUT THIS
FILM, DANIEL KALUUYA JUST WON
THE GOLDEN GLOBE FOR BEST
SUPPORTING ACTOR ON SUNDAY NIGHT
FOR THE PERFORMANCE WE JUST SAW
THERE.
SHAKA, FOR PEOPLE WHO DON’T KNOW
THE FULL STORY OF WHAT HAPPENED
ON DECEMBER 4, 1969, EVERYTHING
THAT LED UP TO IT, EVERYTHING THAT CAME AFTER IT, WHAT GRABBED
THAT CAME AFTER IT, WHAT GRABBED
YOUR ATTENTION ABOUT THIS STORY?
>> INITIALLY WHAT GRABBED MY
ATTENTION ABOUT THE STORY WAS
THE FACT THAT I NEVER HEARD
ANYTHING ABOUT WILLIAM O’NEAL,
THE FBI INFORMANT WHO
INFILTRATED THE ILLINOIS CHAPTER
AND GAVE THE FBI BLUEPRINTS FOR
THE APARTMENT.
THE STORY I HEARD GROWING UP WAS
JUST THAT, YOU KNOW, FRED
HAMPTON WAS A BLACK PANTHER WHO
WAS SHOT BY THE COPS.
I DIDN’T REALIZE IT WAS AN
INTRICATE ASSASSINATION PLOT
THAT WAS ESSENTIALLY, YOU KNOW,
CRAFTED BY THE MOST POWERFUL
GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION IN THE
COUNTRY.
>> MOTHER AKUA, JEANGENE ROBINSO
HAS A QUESTION FOR YOU.
>> MOTHER AKUA, MAYBE YOU COULD
EXPLAIN TO THE AUDIENCE WHO MAY
NOT KNOW, WHAT WAS IT ABOUT FRED
HAMPTON THAT MADE HIM DEEMED SO
DANGEROUS, SO POTENTIALLY
DANGEROUS TO THE POWER STRUCTURE
IN CHICAGO, NATION’S LARGEST
BLACK COMMUNITY, AND TO THE
NATION IN 1969?
WHAT WAS IT ABOUT HIM?
>> WELL, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT,
J. EDGAR HOOVER FBI HEAD
DESCRIBED THE BLACK PANTHER
PARTY AS THE GREATEST THREAT TO
THE INTERNAL SECURITY OF THE
COUNTRY.
PANTHER OFFICES WERE ATTACKED
EVERYWHERE.
CHAIRMAN FRED HAMPTON, HIS
PHONES WERE TAPPED AT HIS
PARENTS HOUSE WHEN HE WAS ABOUT
13 OR 14 YEARS OLD BY THE FBI.
HE WAS A TREMENDOUS ORGANIZER, A
BRILLIANT MAN AND A POWERFUL
SPEAKER.
AND ALSO HE WAS AGAINST THE
EXPLOITATION OF OPPRESSED
PEOPLE, COLONIZED IN THE U.S.
AND AROUND THE WORLD.
HE BECAME A THREAT BECAUSE HE
WAS ABLE TO PULL TOGETHER
TREMENDOUS COALITION WHICH
BECAME KNOWN AS THE RAINBOW
COALITION, BEGAN TO UNITE
VARIOUS GROUPS ACROSS VARIOUS
RACIAL LINES TO FIGHT AGAINST
THE ATTACK THAT WE WERE
EXPERIENCING IN COLONIZED
COMMUNITIES ALL OVER THE
COUNTRY.
SO THE FEAR AS THE DOCUMENTS
SHOW, THE FEAR OF A BLACK
MESSIAH.
SOMEONE THAT COULD ELECTRIFY AND
UNIFY THE MASSES OF PEOPLE.
IN THAT CLIP RIGHT THERE YOU SEE
THE BED WHERE THEY CAME IN AND
STOOD OVER CHAIRMAN FRED AND