The truth behind a premeditated killing carried out by Chicago
police and the FBI, updated with new material at the 50-year
anniversary of the shooting
On December 4, 1969,
attorney Jeff Haas was in a police lockup in Chicago, interviewing
Fred Hampton's fiancée. She described how the police pulled her from
the room as Fred lay unconscious on their bed. She heard one officer
say, "He's still alive." She then heard two shots. A second
officer said, "He's good and dead now." She looked at Jeff
and asked, "What can you do?" Fifty years later, Haas finds
that there is still an urgent need for the revolutionary systemic
changes Hampton was organizing to accomplish. With a new preface
discussing what has changed—and what has not—The Assassination
of Fred Hampton remains Haas's personal account of how he and
People's Law Office partner Flint Taylor pursued Hampton's assassins,
ultimately prevailing over unlimited government resources and FBI
conspiracy. Not only a story of justice delivered, this book puts
Hampton in the spotlight as a dynamic community leader and an
inspiration for those in the ongoing fight against injustice and
police brutality.