The Office of Diversity Affairs at The John Marshall Law School will host a 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. program featuring Jeffrey Haas, author of “The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther” on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012, at the law school, 315 S. Plymouth Ct.
The program also will feature Bill Hampton, Fred Hampton’s brother.
Fred Hampton was deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party. The FBI had opened a file on Hampton in 1967, and after 18 months of investigations put Hampton on an “agitator” list believing he was a key militant leader in the African-American community. His apartment was raided on Dec. 4, 1969, by a tactical unit of the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, in conjunction with the Chicago Police Department and the FBI. Hampton was shot in the head.
This program includes dinner. There is a $25 fee. Reservations are being accepted by the Office of Event Management at https://events.jmls.edu/registration/node/88.